The Twitter hashtag #BankerOutrage was launched by Radio Four yesterday summing up a very popular mood. It’s not unusual for bankers to be hated after crashes. After the South Sea Bubble burst in 1721, there were calls in the Lords for the bankers involved to be dumped in sacks filled with serpents and dropped in the Thames. But that was the immediate aftermath: what’s odd now is the t...

The North Sea oil industry will be at greater risk of "unnecessary and harmful" interference by Europe if Scotland becomes independent, the Government has warned industry leaders.

While driving up Israeli Highway 90 along the west bank of the river Jordan from the Dead Sea to Galilee last Friday, I passed the turnoff to the actual site on the river Jordan where St John the Baptist baptised Christ. I really couldn't miss the place where the Holy Spirit descended on Christ in the form of a dove and God said he was pleased with his son, so I turned down the road,...

The former First Sea Lord, whose ship HMS Ardent was lost in the 1982 Falklands conflict, said Britain would not be able to recapture the islands if Argentina was to take them as the UK had no aircraft carriers.

From Think Defense , a discussion of UK lessons from Libya and a detailed run down of some possible solutions to fill the gaps: two things the UK effort lacked was organic shipboard unmanned ISR and precision land attack. We've discussed the US shortages of those assets here and several times previously. As acquisition choices are made on platforms such as the F-35C versus say the Sea Avenger...

A shout out to all my fiends in Oz...enjoy the day and make it beaut! Australians all let us rejoice For we are young and free We've golden soil and wealth for toil, Our home is girt by sea: Our land abounds in nature's gifts Of beauty rich and rare, In history's page let every stage Advance Australia fair, In joyful strains then let us sing Advance Australia fair. Beneath our radia...

Whilst looking for a copy of a poem by Harri Webb, I came across this poem by a winner of the Harri Webb Memorial Prize, Wrexham poet Grahame Davies: Liverpool by Grahame Davies When I was a lad in Flintshire, A day to remember for me Was to take a trip over the border To the city at the edge of the sea. With her white towers on the horizon, The world seemed to bow at her feet and we felt a

The former First Sea Lord Alan West said there would be a "real problem" in the Falklands if Argentina were to take the large airfield there, because Britain would not be able to recover it.

McDonald Bailey was certainly among the most famous names in British sport when Britain last hosted the Olympics, in 1948. Yet today he has almost been forgotten. It's not how it should have been. He should have been our Jesse Owens. Look at a photo of the British Olympic team of 1948 and Bailey stands out as the only black face in a monochrome sea. He was, you see, from Trinidad. He could ha...

The Costa Concordia crew will no longer believe that stranger things happen at sea, writes Boris Johnson.