Showing during Sunday night’s Super Bowl football game, the ad with Clint Eastwood was seen by some as an endorsement of Barack Obama’s re-election

The post-New England Super Bowl loss riots in Amherst, Mass. were nothing compared to the soccer riots in Cairo (thank God), but can a psychiatrist explain why it happens at all? Something about groupthink? Can you imagine if the Patriots had won the game? “Like” TPC on Facebook here. Follow TPC on Twitter here.

While there are hundreds of prop bets (exotic wagers that include everything except just picking a game winner) for the New York Giants-New England Patriots Super Bowl, how about some political prop bets for the 2012 presidential election? For the most part the wagers available for the 2012 presidential election race are plain vanilla in nature that will offer you odds for who will win the Republi...

EU Tax Commissioner: UK ???would lose a lot??? if other countries go ahead with FTT; Barnier: The City ???must play the European game???

Eric Pickles praises the Daily Telegraph's campaign to bring back weekly bin collections.

The debate about what constitutes Britishness has barely begun, says Neil O'Brien.

Analyzing the New York Giants - New England Patriots game has been done in virtually every possible way by nearly every available pundit! Are there any unique ways left? Handicapping a Super Bowl or a horse race! As a young man I was a somewhat frequent visitor to the horse track. As a frequent visitor, I would spend a great deal of time pouring over the Racing Form trying to pick the eventual rac...

In a speech tomorrow, Ed Miliband will call for ‘one nation banking’. The Labour leader will argue that banks have to show that they are part of the society in which they operate.   But, perhaps, most interesting is Miliband’s point — previewed in the political column this week — that the behaviour and pay structures of banks are fair game for parliament because ...

Via qwghlm's twitter feed, here's a rough but serviceable translation of an eyewitness account of yesterday's disaster at the football in Port Said, from an Ahly fan: The moment the referee whistled to declare the ending of the game, the...

The above picture is of the Church of Jesus Christ the Adolescent, which is found on the top of a hill in Nazareth in Israel. It presumably gets its name from the fact that Jesus Christ did apparently spend his teenage years in Nazareth. I post the picture merely because everyone I have shown the picture too so far has laughed at the name. Thinking about it more, though, asking people to complete ...