The hottest ticket in London this weekend is not for a pop singer or a football match but for a conference on communism which brings together some of the world's leading Marxist academics. The international financial crisis has led to a resurgence of interest in a philosophy that many claimed had been buried with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Such has been the interest in the conference, ...

Old Holborn and I will take a walk It is still wonderful to imagine that you can take a walk in South Shields free from the cares of the world, free from intrusion, free to think what you wish and argue against who you like within the bounds of mutual respect, free to take whatever actions

An interesting example of an online video game featuring US president elect Barack Obama which was developed by Zensoft and first released free of charge on the Internet in the aftermath of the 2008 American presidential elections. It is based on Super Mario World and contains satirical comment on issues in American politics as Obama is seen dodging his Republican political opponent Sarah Palin. R...

A Labour MSP yesterday stepped up his campaign to allow children in to SPL football matches for free.

If there's no such thing as a free lunch, what do you make of a free curry? If you're prepared to go along to Port Talbot on Wednesday night and share your thoughts on devolving more powers to Wales, then a free curry will be yours care of the All Wales Convention. To free laptops, free toothbrushes and free lightbulbs, now we can add free curry to the list of Welsh political freebies. G...

It may be snowing hard in Britain, but 2010 is on course to be the hottest year ever recorded for the world, figures released by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) indicated yesterday.

I like his blog, but don't agree with everything Guido Fawkes says. I particularly despise this recycled garbage. Anyone who believes in free markets and free trade has to believe as a corollary in the free movement of people. Why? Leaving aside the fact that there is no such thing as a free market (and there hasn't been for centuries) or even free trade - why would the corollary be free...

The notion that we have free speech in Western democracies is fast becoming a fallacy. Free speech is something that our politicians love to tout and showpiece, yet when you really get down to it, when free speech suddenly jumps out of the box and takes on new dimensions, the first thing our leaders do

Most thinking people would agree that a free press is fundamental to the health of a functioning democracy. So we tend to take it for granted that the western world in general enjoys a free press. And yet, I ask, is our press really so free?...

The CEP have hit the nail on the nail with their latest press release: How can anyone claim to be a fair Prime Minister of the United Kingdom when he gets for the Scottish people, his own Scottish nation, free university tuition, free hospital parking, free personal care for the elderly, free eyetests, free water piped