The Real Blog

OK, I've got a small revival of flu, which is my excuse for not writing this yesterday. But wasn't the Obama speech a statement of ...

Vince Cable was bang on with his phrase "giving the kiss of life to a corpse". The real problem is not that the banks refuse to l...

The approval of the third runway at Heathrow is an extraordinary and historic event, and I kind of think we will all look back to it (15 Jan...

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...