The Real Blog

Of all the post-Henley posts, I find myself most in agreement with Bernard Salmon - people will not vote Lib Dem (certainly sustainably) unl...

Poor old Columbus, Cabot and Vespucci, slipping by the week out of respectable history – Columbus as a brutal maniac, Cabot as a failure and...

The four police forces which have rejected Whitehall targets are just the beginning. There is a revolution about to begin in the way our pu...

Over the years debating fair trade versus free trade, I have come to the slightly woolly conclusion that they don’t have to be opposed to ea...

For goodness sake. Why is it that our London mayoral campaigns are so bad at projecting any kind of big idea or vision? I’ve just watched B...

Watching the events unfolding in Tibet has made me think about the strange combination of socialism and capitalism in China, where free trad...

Brian Paddick was absolutely right in his condemnation of Ken Livingstone’s insane policy to destroy London’s skyline with tall, inhuman, gl...