Two stories in the papers today come from the ring top circuses of Herefordshire county council and Three Rivers council. They defy belief. Herefordshire resident Brian Hubbard has been ordered to stop cutting a grass verge outside his home because...

News broke yesterday that another disgraceful and dangerous loss of data had taken place at the MoD. The personal details of up to 1.7 million people who had applied to join the armed forces have been stolen. Even more astoundingly,...

The Telegraph reports that Conservative leader David Cameron has been warned by Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt that if he wants to keep any friends in Europe he should not offer a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, if it is already in force. Reinfeldt, who currently holds the EU’s rotating Presidency, is quoted by the Times saying, “I hope to see him as the next prime minister ...

Saturday 23rd August saw the first of our West Midlands Action Days in Wolverhampton, with activists turning out to petition the city council for lower council tax. The weather held out long enough for us to to collect almost 100...

And three pictures, which is the norm of the daily dose of the Day by Day cartoon, is obviously worth three thousand words. Today's certainly cannot be bettered by any number of superfluous words.

Another one of “Europe’s hours”, a phrase first used with reference to the war in former Yugoslavia at the beginning of the nineties, has come and gone with that foreign policy remains stubbornly non-common. Let’s forget about President Sarkozy’s great achievements. What he did was to abandon whatever plan his own foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, had signed with Pr...

As you may have read today – or heard our Campaign Director Mark Wallace discussing on the radio – each Regional Development Agency has cost British households £600 since 1999. Despite taking more and more from the taxpayer and yielding...

From today's Guardian: "Less than a fifth of the biofuel used on UK roads meets environmental standards intended to safeguard human rights and guarantee carbon savings, figures released today show. "The Renewable Fuels Agency says just 19% of the biofuel supplied under the government's new initiative to use biofuel to help tackle global warming met the green standard. For the r...

Amnesty International is appalled by the mass execution of 29 men in Tehran’s Evin Prison on 27 July 2008. Their deaths brought the number of executions carried out so far this year to 187. In 2007, more executions were carried out in Iran – 317 - than in any other country except China. Yet the population of Iran is 18 times smaller than China. Announcing the executions, the Iranian au...

...would bring about a much-needed shot in the arm for democracy and accountability in Britain and the European Union." So says a posting on ToryBoy Blog, known officially as Conservative Home blog.Its starting point is a remarkably silly and predictable sounding piece in the Financial Times Magazine, which seems to hit out at euroscepticism as being outdated scare-mongering (people like going to ...