Professor Robert Cialdini - the author of Influence - provides, in a new post on his blog, some advice for those wishing to turn failure into success. Keep a list of other people's inanities.

Penistone & Stocksbridge MP Angela Smith has announced the commencement of new local surgeries throughout the constituency. At these surgeries people will be able to raise concerns with Angela, who will be able to offer help and advice to people. There will be 7 surgeries held each month, with 3 being held at various locations in the Barnsley side of the constituency. Because of the success of...

We are in a new situation which started with the coalition was being negotiations. Nobody in the political parties had thought it through. It had to be made up as they went along and it is still being made up, week by week, month by month. It has had a major effect on the resulting

WE ALL know something really interesting happened in British politics with the agreement of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to work in coalition.

David Cameron, leader of the UK's Conservatives, says his party's success at next month's polls depends on every adult becoming a member of an active neighbourhood group

Prime Minister to "hand power back to the people" by ordering departments to publish five-year plans and let voters judge their success.

The Irish Times has an account of a celebration of Hamas in Dublin last weekend. Azzam Tamimi, an Islamist extremist known to readers of this blog, and esteemed by the UK’s “Stop the War Coalition”, which had him round to speak at a Gaza fundraising event last month, was one of the speakers at the Dublin

The importance of the Citizens' Advice Bureaux cannot be understated - as the case of the father believed to have killed his family proves, argues Charlotte Bettley.

If The President Can’t Speak To The General, No One Can! “Ideally, it’s better for military advice to come up through the chain of command”, Jim Jones, National Security Advisor Is The Chain Of Command Broken? Now certainly President Obama could speak with him if he so desired, but that is obviously not the case. If General McCrystal, whose only axe to grind is winning the ...

Apart from Nick Clegg, David Laws and Danny Alexander were the two most important Lib Dems in the first iteration of the Coalition. Laws as Chief Secretary to the Treasury ensured that the two sides were equally committed to deficit reduction, the main task for this government. While Alexander was responsible alongside Oliver Letwin for making sure that the Coalition agreed on its approach to ever...