Reforms from President Raúl Castro have encouraged small businesses and eroded traditional structures and attitudes in unanticipated ways

From BBC 9th January Mae’r ‘Mab Darogan’ i nifer ym Mhlaid Cymru wedi rhoi ei gefnogaeth i Leanne Wood yn ei hymgyrch ar gyfer arweinyddiaeth y blaid. Heddiw, fe gyhoeddodd cyn-AS Gorllewin Caerfyrddin a Dinefwr, Adam Price, ei fod yn rhoi ei gefnogaeth tu ôl i ymgyrch Leanne Wood i fod yn arweinydd newydd Plaid

Inspired by The Dave's trip into the belly of the beast to ask all forty-something nations involved in the European Court of Human Rights racket to agree with his plan to make it less awful, I'm going on a trip to Scunthorpe to demand someone gives me a solid gold Ferrari full of diamonds. Some might say my plan is a barely coherent fanatsy, but if it doesn't work I'll quit and go home, which at l...

Open Europe reports on comments by europlastic George Eustice MP. Writing in the Western Morning News, Camborne and Redruth MP George Eustice cites findings from Open Europe’s new report on EU structural funds, which found that if regional policy were devolved back to the UK government, Cornwall could receive an extra £207 million in funding over the next seven years. He argues that &l...

A Romney-seeking missile. That was what much of Barack Obama's State of the Union Address amounted to last night. He didn't mention the Republican presidential challenger by name, of course. That would have been too obvious. But he did dwell on those sorts of issues around taxation and jobs — including his ‘Buffett Rule’, by which, we learn, millionaires should pay at l...

Popular Alliance prefers to keep the Union together although fully understands the many English who wish to see Scotland ex-communicated as under present agreements, they have an unfair number of free services compared to their number of tax paying contributors and of course such inconsistencies cause resentment.   Scotland also has a higher number per capita, employed by the state (we'l...

This video makes for hilarious - if frustrating - viewing. Leading Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum ludicrously posits that left-wingers in America are massive advocates for too much freedom...and cites this as a problem. Richard Nikoley sums up the vile Santorum thusly: [L]eave it to far-right, fundamentally religious Christians to come full circle, meeting up with commiesâ€...

A New Year Message from Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband: Britain starts 2012 in the most difficult of moments. Economic gloom, rising unemployment, falling living standards. What I have heard, going round the country in the last year, are the same concerns everywhere: young people struggling to find work, families feeling their living standards squeezed, parents fearful about what kind of future l...

A reminder of earlier dramas in London and surrounding parts this year: A court on Wednesday sentenced a rioter who was caught on video pulling a man off his scooter during the summer riots to almost six years in jail. The footage of Ryan Kitchenside, 18, chasing his victim before yanking him to the ground during the August riots in Croydon, appeared on video-sharing website Youtube, l...

This list is reserved for some of the worst of the worst United States criminals from 2011! The Top 10 Highest Bail amounts for 2011! 9. $2,250,000: Karl F. Bonilla - Felony Shootings 8. $2,700,000: Jordan Liu - Child Molestation 7. $3,000,000: Marlon L. Green - Murder 6. $3,000,000: Daniel Lopez - Murder 5. $4,000,000: James Alan Greene - Attempted Murder 4. $5,000,000: Davis Ison - Attempted Arm...