The Real Blog

Who heard the item on the Today programme about introducing a non-military national service? Admittedly it came after the surprising skewe...

The Red Tory debate, the subject of a forthcoming book by the Conservative theorist Phillip Blond, featured in a fascinating column by Madel...

I do find it extraordinary what we will put up with from government and corporate alike. For example. I bought a ticket down to Devon on Su...

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...