It's his job. If David Cameron wasn't playing party politics with the Baby P story, then he was culpably incompetent in choosing to raise the issue. Before PMQ's, he will have sat down with his advisors and asked them "How exactly can I make pol...

If you’re bored at work and itching to get yourself through the day then you know the drill! Rather than surfing around trying to keep yourself occupied before you make a quick sprint to the door when it’s home time; catch up on stories that have be...

My initial reaction to the news, reported by the Telegraph, that Prince Charles has renewed his determination to style himself "Defender of Faith" if and when he becomes king was a shrug. He can call himself Defender of Elves and Pixies if it makes...

I hope you're familiar with Proposition 8 in California and the news that it passed, which is very bad news for the LGBT Community. Three other states passed legislation that denies our community equal rights. A grass roots effort was started last F...

Expect an upsurge in attendances at car boot sales across the UK after Antiques Roadshow, the long-running BBC TV programme, values an item brought in by a member of the public at £1m for the very first time.The nature of the item that has been foun...

I don’t want to get into a debate as to the rights and wrongs of whether people should agree to donate their organs, although I am willing to state, for the record, that I support the organ donor programme. What concerns me is when government,...

TelegraphIt was the moment all Dr Who fans had been waiting for – when the identity of the new time lord would be revealed.But the sneak preview of the Dr Who Christmas special, shown on BBC 1's Children in Need show on Friday night, teased viewer...

Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper was carrying out an unprecedented attempt to clean up a gummed-up joint on the International Space Station's solar panel on Tuesday when the grease gun inside her tool bag exploded, getting nasty grey goo all over her ca...

1. Centre Right thinks David Davis wants to be PM.2. Labour MP Celia Barlow has been very naughty with her use of taxpayers' money says Machiavelli.3. Tom Harris admits he is not a very good Christian.4. Ben Brogan breaks ranks from his lobby collea...

MPs who blog are being censored by the Commons authorities - if they use the £10,000 Communications Allowance to pay for it. A Labour MP says he has been stripped of a Parliamentary allowance for making fun of other MPs on his blog. Paul Flynn was...

Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame, has accused the United Nations of betraying a pledge to combat Hutu extremists in eastern Congo and then blaming his country for the failure of a costly peacekeeping mission to end years of conflict. In an interview ...

Today the UK Bus Awards will honour the commitment to quality and innovation in the bus industry. You'll be pleased to hear there's a special category for London promoted by TfL which "focus especially on the challenging task of running reliable and...

World Toilet Day | WaterAidDid you know? 2.5 billion people do not have somewhere safe, private or hygienic to go to the toilet.One gram of faeces can contain 10 million viruses, one million bacteria, 1,000 parasite cysts and 100 parasite eggs.The s...

PIRACY is booming. It’s the world’s growth industry. Over the newswires, Anorak learns that a Hong Kong cargo ship has been attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden near the Yemen coast. The good ship Delight is loaded with 36,000 tonnes of whe...

YORKSHIRE NO2ID PRESS RELEASE Date: 20th November 2008 For Immediate Release BEGINS Campaigners from the Leeds NO2ID group will be protesting on Dortmund Square, Headrow, Leeds next Monday 24th November in opposition to the introduction of UK ident...

William Gallas said yesterday: I know people were talking about my leadership before the game but what I found interesting is that after we beat United everyone was saying my leadership was good. But for me I played the way I have been all season. ...

It would be, I acknowledge, unduly churlish to pen a virtual heckle at news that the impasse over Stormont executive meetings may be close to resolution. If, at long last, Sinn Féin has decided to return to work and meet its counterparts at the exe...

A letter in today's Telegraph:Sir - We seem to want to take comfort in the belief that child abuse was just as common in the past.Child abuse to the death is many times more common where the mother was not married to the father and the present boyfr...

Houses of Parliament 'infested with vermin' - Telegraph.Just when I though the MSM was finally beginning to understand the scale of our political crisis, I realised the Telegraph was talking about rats and mice.........

HEY, tax doesn’t have to be taxing. Just ask Gordon Brown. It’s easy. You just say, “Make it so” and you can raise more taxes than a priapic Caesar. Gordon Brown is talking about deflation. Every week Gordon introduces a new word into the British le...

The BBC report that veteran Republican Senator, Ted Stevens has finally lost his bid for a seventh term in office after a knife-edge race against Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich. The Democratic candidate led the Senate's longest-serving Republican by 3,...

A video clip featuring an 'invisible' moonwalking bear that has stealthily grown to be an internet hit has been revealed as a subtle road safety campaign planted by London transport officials.The minute-long film called simply Awareness Test has cau...

How’s this for tag lag? Lynne Featherstone tagged me with this meme 14 months ago. Better late than never - and there’s nothing like a meme to get me blogging. My first political memory was probably from November 1990. (I definitely help...

It's pretty hard to get your head around the numbers that are thrown about in the context of the US banking 'bailout', a billion dollars is difficult to visualise, a trillion even more so.CNBC have done a good job of trying to add some perspective. ...

Four square metres of rainforest are destroyed for every gram of cocaine snorted in the UK, a conference of senior police officers as told yesterday.Francisco Santos Calderón, the vice-president of Colombia, appealed to British users of the c...

Last Broadcast has an interview with Elizabeth Sladen...With 12 episodes this year, how long did the second series take to film?I think I was there for about six months, but I also did the Doctor Who episodes, The Stolen Earth and Journey's End. I h...

Home Comment at end 18th November, 2008 “I DIDN’T MEAN TO HURT ANYONE” An NHS doctor who crashed into Glasgow Airport in a car packed with gas canisters says he told the police officers who arrested him that he was a terrorist. T...

Am I the only person in the UK to have still not seen the new Bond film, Quantum of Solace? I must stop pencilling it in my diary, and just go! Anyway, confession time over. Following the news that whilst filming, the hunk of the hour, Mr Daniel Cra...

In a dramatic move intended to demonstrate his resolve and consistency, George Osborne is set to follow through on his summer consultation over introducing a fuel tax stabiliser, and will call for an increase in fuel duty. As he said when launching ...

UK inflation tumbled at a record pace in October to 4.5 %, down from the 16-year peak of 5.2 % in September, official figures showed yesterday. A sharp fall in transport costs, coupled with lower fuel and food prices, helped to push down the Consum...