Thousands of "faceless" officials should lose the right to gain entry to people's homes without a warrant, under legal changes demanded by the House of Lords tonight.
President Obama has trumpeted the temporary payroll tax cut as his major victory for middle class Americans. Unfortunately, he isn't telling you about the massive screwing over homeowners are getting to pay for a few hundred dollars in savings. Hidden in the bill that the president signed that came down from the Senate is a provision that adds a minimum monthly fee of one tenth of one percent...
There have been some high profile (if not high level) Blairite defections to the Tories. While there are some similarities between the Blair legacy and our coalition partners, the defectees seem to have overlooked or discarded one idea – joining the Liberal Democrats. As Jonathan Powell says in his book, The New Machiavelli, and as
The Palestinian Authority had its own way of commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day this year. They chose that occasion to have official Fatah-run Palestinian TV glorify the murderers of the Fogel family. You might remember the Fogels. They were a young family living in the Jewish community of Itamar who were at home, relaxing after the Sabbath. On March 11, 2011, two Arabs affiliat...
