Good old BBC, you can always rely on them for a bit of revisionism.  According to one of the BBC’s tame gardeners, the 1600s was the best time to be British. At first I was a little confused on account of there not being a British nation until 1707, then I thought perhaps she was being

A disgraceful piece of anti-Semitic historical revisionism appears in today’s Independent newspaper, which tries to rehabilitate the Slovenian Nazis, or Domobrantsvo/ (Slowenische Landeswehr) as misunderstood patriots, betrayed by the British. The Domobrantsvo are shown here in the picture swearing an oath of allegiance on Hitler’s birthday in 1945. Jugoslavia had emerged as a multi-et...

With food and fuel prices rising by huge amounts we will hear much over the coming months about poverty and it will all concentrate on money. It is quite right that money should feature high on the poverty agenda because most definitions of poverty look at nothing else. My intention is to address the monetary side of poverty in a series of ramblings over the next few weeks, but today I want to cha...

THE CONVICTION that the elimination of poverty - child poverty, pensioner poverty, Third World poverty - is at the heart of the Labour movement. Every Labour activist I’ve ever met would agree that the fight against material poverty must be a priority for any Left-of-centre government. I’ve commented here before about the Tories’ new-found - and ut...

It depends upon how you define poverty. Although you only have to glance at the FTSE100 to know that child (and adult) poverty will soon explode, I agree absolutely that poverty will increase, in the sense that more people will have less money. But that isn’t the way that poverty is defined in our modern world. Now

Gordon Brown has lauded the Bishops marching today through London to demand action on global poverty.He said: "This has been one of the greatest public demonstrations of faith that this great city has ever seen. You have sent a symbol, a very clear message with rising force that poverty can be eradicated, poverty must be eradicated and if we all work together for change poverty will be eradicated....

We can end poverty - I mean it - and together we can do it. This week Chris Grayling, Iain Duncan Smith and I launched 'Making British Poverty History', which lays out measures to address the deep-rooted causes of poverty.

As you know, there is no such thing as child poverty in the United Kingdom. That does not stop leftists from gibbering on about it, although the new term is "relative poverty". Ranting Rab deals with the lastest lefty lunacy..... As for 'child poverty', I'm struggling to understand what child poverty actually is in this country. I've never seen a child with rickets. Nor a malno...

The government’s own “Fuel poverty” adviser has been on TV and radio telling us that we will have more people in fuel poverty this winter than at any time for the last ten years. Well, there’s a surprise! I wonder how much he and his staff get paid to

The hysteria from the Poverty Industry gets even more shrill with their lunatic claim today that "Millions of children in the UK are living in, or on the brink of, poverty" The Campaign to End Child Poverty says 5.5 million children are in families that are classed as "struggling" - 98% of children in some areas. The Campaign to End Child Poverty is a coalition of more than 130 organisations inclu...