Gordon Brown may have resigned today but record numbers of people refused to resign themselves to the new Conservative/Lib Dem government without a fight, as record numbers joined the Labour Party. Over a thousand people had already joined Labour before Gordon resigned, but afterwards the already record number of new members INCREASED to 20 a minute

CROSS-CHANNEL water-skier Christine Bleakley joined other Sport Relief stars to be congratulated on their efforts by the Prime Minister yesterday.

5 years ago US stunt man/magician David Blaine set a world record for hanging around in a box doing nothing. Today, Irish international footballer Robbie Keane set a new world record when he finally brought to an end his five-month stint doing the same thing in Liverpool.

Clive Betts teamed up with a bevy of MPs and Members of the House of Lords to complete a Westminster Mile for Sport Relief on Wednesday 10th March. More than 30 Parliamentarians, including Minister for Sport Gerry Sutcliffe, swapped their suits for shorts, trainers and Sport Relief Socks to test their sporting prowess in St James's Park. They were joined by former England Rugby player Kyran B...

Finance Secretary John Swinney yesterday joined the SNP campaign trail to highlight the Scottish Government business rates relief scheme for small firms.

The World Bank's crystal ball is not emitting pleasant forecasts this morning, with the release of the latest Global Economic Prospects Report: "Global GDP is expected to contract by 1.7 percent in 2009, which would be the first decline in world output on record," the report concludes. Developed economies will fall into "deep recession" -- witness Japan's 12.1 percent...

This morning has been noticeably warmed by the collective sigh of relief breathed by the world. Over breakfast, as I stretched to catch snippeted Yes-We-Cans on the radio, my wife tried to calm me down by arguing that Barack Obama isn't our president. Except that he so is. In Europe, we have become used to being investors. A while back we were passively watching our banks collapse. No...

New world born-unseenAt 6.00 a.m. this morning in a cavernous room in the Treasury, one man sat at his desk and signed a large number of documents. He was alone and no one was there to record the major event...

Just had a thought whilst shaving this morning, what about mortgage tax relief ? The problem is that too many people are defaulting on their mortgages. Currently all the plans seem to bail our the banks at the expense of the people. What if mortgage tax relief, say on a set amount of the mortgage (as used to be the case ) was used to keep mortgages affordable - stop the defaulting and keep the ban...

If there was any justice in this world, all you would have to do in the modern equivalent of a music hall is utter two words (or three): "The European Union". You could add, "foreign policy" and that should guarantee to bring the house down. To illustrate the point you could do no better than refer to the latest development in the long-running farce of the EU Chad peace mission which, as we record...