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Tell me, was there any disquiet at all at the BBC when the chief constable covering Dewsbury condemned Karen Matthews’ neighbours, a whole c...

There is another tragedy about Baby P. Not just the fate of a child at the hands of adults, but another twist in the rise of what I can onl...

I have to admit to a teeny bit of frustration when I saw the latest poll that puts the Lib Dems down to 14 per cent. The side effects of th...

Geoff Payne very kindly sent me the attached essay by John Gray, which says that the collapse of the American model of capitalism is as sign...

I’ve just listened to Chris Huhne’s slightly intemperate demolition of Chris Grayling on Any Questions. It was good to listen to, and I hop...

It really is amazing how timid the British authorities are in the face of financial meltdown, despite what Gordon Brown said this afternoon....

For most of my adult life, we have wrestled with a narrow interpretation of the free market which has come to dominate the globe. That inter...