There is, out there in cyberspace, a small area where a heated debate is raging. Sadly for those producing most of the heat, not very many o...

The way that many on the right in the USA are moving to oppose democracy in Egypt has been demonstrated at the annual Conservative Political...

Who remembers decimalisation? I can still recall what was called “D-Day”, 40 years ago in February 1971, when new coins began to circulate a...

As the Guardian’s Nick Davies put it in his excellent book Flat Earth News , “ dog doesn’t eat dog ”. So it has been no surprise to see muc...

Dear Simon, I was disappointed to see that your Saturday Guardian column has made the mistake of taking a Daily Mail article as fact. T...

Barack Obama and George W Bush could agree on one thing: the concept of democracy is universal. This, they both asserted, was the inspiratio...

The thought occurred recently that I may be too hard on Richard “Dirty” Desmond and his shrinking retinue of hacks at the Express titles. B...

Votes for prisoners – yes, this is an issue that has serious mileage in it. Not for any kind of principled debate, you understand, but as a ...

Hardly had the news of Hosni Mubarak’s long overdue departure been relayed than the pundits were off and running. What of the role of other ...

As I posted a few days ago , it was time for Hosni Mubarak to go, and to the relief of most Egyptian citizens, most of whom would rather he ...

If you have not heard of Tolley’s Tax Guides, you are not alone: as the managing director of a limited company with accounts to prepare and ...

Much hot air has been generated in the last few days over the issue of votes for convicted prisoners, and in the Commons yesterday evening, ...

Not satisfied with merely passing judgment on someone else whom he considers to be “less bright” than himself, Maily Telegraph blogger Jame...

All the signs point to a continuing fall in public support for Young Dave, Corporal Clegg and their new and improved two headed donkey: at t...

Local Government has to get involved in all manner of issues concerning the towns and cities over which it enjoys authority, and one of the ...

Still telling the world that the body of established science is wrong, that it is “ monstrously corrupt ”, and that “ the game’s over ” is M...

As commentators in the UK get excited over the amounts of money donated to the Tory Party from the financial services sector – eleven mill...

A comment that may dispirit many, but may also be proved wrong in time, came from PR guru Max Clifford during yesterday evening’s C4 Dispatc...

As Peter Hill says goodbye to the Daily Express , with the paper’s circulation languishing below 650,000, it is hard to believe that, in the...

Our old friends at the so-called Taxpayers’ Alliance (TPA) are today working themselves up into a terrible flap over the rebuttals to their...