Westminster Council is joint bottom of the London league for Adult Social Care, according to the 2010/11 Adult Social Care Survey. In a report to the Council's Audit and Performance Policy and Scrutiny Committee, Councillors have been told: "The 2010/11 Adult Social Care Survey (ASCS) benchmarking report shows Westminster's score (of 17.4) amongst the lowest in London. Results from the s...

The coming release of Abu Qatada on bail is going to put bellows under the whole debate about the European Court of Human Rights. In his recent speech to the Council of Europe, David Cameron rightly protested about a situation with terror suspects in which ‘you cannot try them, you cannot detain them and you cannot deport them.’ We will now find out how quickly Cameron is prepared to a...

The post-New England Super Bowl loss riots in Amherst, Mass. were nothing compared to the soccer riots in Cairo (thank God), but can a psychiatrist explain why it happens at all? Something about groupthink? Can you imagine if the Patriots had won the game? “Like” TPC on Facebook here. Follow TPC on Twitter here.

You know, of course, that we’ve The One who tells us that all we need to fill the deficit, all we need to do to make the nasty there is no money tree problems go away, is to hire more taxmen and point them at all those nasty tax dodgers. That he’s paid by the

The Palestinian Authority had its own way of commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day this year. They chose that occasion to have official Fatah-run Palestinian TV glorify the murderers of the Fogel family. You might remember the Fogels. They were a young family living in the Jewish community of Itamar who were at home, relaxing after the Sabbath. On March 11, 2011, two Arabs affiliat...

Bush didn't do it, Biden advised against it, and everyone knew it was a ballsy decision. Given his independent status, the Daily Dish's Andrew Sullivan is a powerful and articulate cheerleader for Obama. Here, he reminds us that the decision to get Bin Laden would have caused the GOP to demand an extra face on Mount Rushmore if only he were a Republican. He says: It was Obama who made that dangero...

The Daily Epxress on Wednesday gave a platform to Anne Widdecombe to peddle her 'cure gay people' mantra. You can read it here. Not only is this a breach of the ethical standards of journalism, it is an incitement to anti-gay verbal and physical attacks.

The biggest danger for the Liberal Democrats from this coming trial is that it turns the party into the butt of everybody’s jokes. Having gone into government and lost much of their original support by taking tough decisions, they have consoled themselves with the hope that they have now established themselves as a serious political party.   Their aim at the next election will be to pre...

Apparently, Mr. Daisey is an actor, author, commentator and playright. Perhaps I should have heard of him too. He’s getting shouty about this, saying that I’m a racist neoliberal who knows nothing about the issue and therefore I should shut up. Or something. Just as a little stylistic note: We have no idea what the

The above picture is of the Church of Jesus Christ the Adolescent, which is found on the top of a hill in Nazareth in Israel. It presumably gets its name from the fact that Jesus Christ did apparently spend his teenage years in Nazareth. I post the picture merely because everyone I have shown the picture too so far has laughed at the name. Thinking about it more, though, asking people to complete ...