Queen Rania of Jordan has just written a children’s book about the themes of “getting to know others, openness and multiculturalism.” The book was launched in April with a reading given by Rania at the United Nations, is on the New York Times’ bestseller list, and its promotion in the […]

Time for an update of The List – the media has again resorted to shrieking that the nonexistent global warming crisis has turned cuddly polar bears into bloodthirsty cannibals: A group of tourists were left horrified when they came across the grisly sight of a polar bear eating a cub in […]

Roland Emmerich’s new end-of-the-world disaster film 2012 has a rollicking good time destroying every monument to man’s architectural genius in the world. The Sistine Chapel is destroyed, as is the Vatican and the giant Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. The White House gets flattened, too. All man’s […]

What a surprise. Prof Sir Ian Kennedy, head of the new body charged with rewriting the rules on MPs’ expenses, has been quoted as saying he had “no obligation” to accept everything that Sir Christopher Kelly has suggested. Wriggle, wriggle. Oh and btw . . .Kennedy, a good friend of Alistair […]