Thomas Docherty has courted controversy since he was elected as Labour MP for Dunfermline and West Fife in 2010. He certainly has a novel approach to winning friends and influencing people. First of all, he had a go at certain of his fellow MPs whose attire, he felt was too casual for the Commons. Then

Michael Dugher MP, Labour's Shadow Cabinet Office Minister, commenting on the appointment of Michael Farmer as Conservative Party co-Treasurer

Facebook, on the other side of the pond, may or may not be worth $100bn, but either way it doesn’t matter. Eye instead the company’s S-1 filing with the US securities and exchange commission, and the key figures that stand out are that it took seven years to create a company with $3.7bn in revenues

Western and Arab states voiced outrage yesterday (5 February) after Russia and China vetoed a UN resolution that would have backed an Arab plan urging Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to give up power. French President Nicolas Sarkozy proposed creating a "Friends of Syria" group to advance initiative. More »

The Camerons face the inevitable in the latest episode of our Westminster sitcom, by Iain Hollingshead.

There's Caledonian chaos for Clegg, Cameron and co in the latest episode of our Westminster sitcom, by Iain Hollingshead.

I consider myself firmly in the 'against' camp when it comes to jokes alluding to rape or sexual violence, not because I'm easily offended, and not because I've necessarily been affected first-hand by either, but because I genuinely don't see how such a topic can be funny. I'd like to think that none of my friends would ever do something like that, but reality is hars...

Last year, a former executive director, Charles Secrett, accurately accused it and other green groups of being “out of touch, ineffective and bureaucratic”, adding: “Interminable meetings, not action, are the order of most days.” Happens even to Friends of the Earth. Worstall’s Law: In the end, any and every organisation will be run by those

Again and again, the official Italian Communist party helped to prop up Italy’s ruling class, saving it from its potential gravediggers.

Erdogan should have followed a rational and strategic approach regarding the French bill on Armenian genocide. Instead, he acts like a small kid in the sandbox, writes Michael Kambeck from European Friends of Armenia. More »