From the BBC we see that the LibDems are trying to carve out a political niche over the future of our nuclear deterrent. Or a clear yellow streak of water, you might say. Devon MPs have clashed over the future of the UK’s Trident nuclear submarines which are refitted at […]

The Orange Lodge in Scotland is learning that freedom of expression is not free – they are going to be charged to march. We learn from The Scotsman: The contribution will be voluntary because, as a non-profit organisation, the Orange Lodge is exempt from paying for any policing. However, police […]

Who remembers the EU budget meeting in 2005 when that nice Mr Blair went to give those nasty men in Brussels a firm talking to? He went strongly demanding that the French please possibly accept opening talks about fiddling with the Common Agricultural Policy. Not ‘reforming’ it. Oh no. Not […]

There’s been blanket coverage here of the unrest which has followed Iran ’s disputed election. But imagine how our own political crisis looks from the Middle East . Do we really have any right to sit in judgment on other countries? Here’s how Tehran Television is reporting recent events in […]