A number of dinosaur media outlets are running stories today about a series of explosions and assassinations in Iran targeting the country's illegal nuclear program...and the probabilty of Israel's Mossad, working hand in hand with Iranian dissidents in the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK) as the culprits. Characteristic of MSNBC that they would use the 'terrorist' label for MEK while ...

‘“Quantitative Easing is a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich,” he says, “It floods banks with money, which they use to pay themselves bonuses. The banks have money, and assets, so they can borrow easily. The poor guy, who is unemployed and can't borrow, is not going to benefit from it.” The QE process pushes asset prices up, he says...

So, back from a day trip to Usti nad Labem to look at a factory (“Yes, that’s a factory OK, I’ve seen one before you know!”) and I’m at the train station waiting for the Hamburg Express. Which is going to arrive/leave from platorm 3. So I am on platform 3. The station has 6

We now have the first major gaffe of the 2012 London Mayor race and to everyone’s surprise it wasn’t Boris. Ken Livingstone granted an extraordinary interview to the New Statesman, where his comments on the incumbent mayor, Margaret Thatcher and his work ethic have caused a decent stir. However, it is the thoughts on homosexuality in the Conservative Party — ‘the Tory party...

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We've heard enough about David Cameron's woman troubles to regard anything he says about the fairer sex as a naked pitch for votes. But I reckon his comments today, about getting more women into boardrooms, are just as much motivated by concerns about the economy. ‘The drive for more women in business is not simply about equal opportunity, it's about effectiveness,’ is h...

Emma Burnell says that politics has to be about morality. I’m not sure, for at least four reasons. 1. Morality is weak against power. If there is any moral truth at all, it is that the mass murder of innocent civilians is wrong. But when it happens, the “international community” does nothing to stop it.

This isn't about policy but the American way of life! Sitting on Bloggers Row behind the network television commentators I could provide you with the policy discussions that that will be reported in 1,000 different places in a 1,000 different ways. Instead I want to compare and contrast an article that I wrote yesterday concerning the "gatecrashers" expected at CPAC in the form of the labor u...

In thirteen years of authoritarian government, the Labour Party inflicted 4,400 new laws on the UK – more than any other government in British history. Though Labour is all over the place on almost every policy in Opposition – alternating between Tory and Trot – there’s one thing in which they’re consistent. Labour is still determined to be to the far right of the Lib...

Changing the tone a little, enjoy the Muppet Wicker Man. Quite sinister in places and in every way an improvement on the wretched Nicholas Cage remake: