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Listening live to President Obama’s press spokesman in the early stages of the Egyptian uprising, you might easily have believed – especiall...

I don’t know how it came about that Matthew Oakeshott is no longer speaking for the party on economics in the House of Lords. I don’t know w...

Sorry to have disappeared for so long. I've had flu and goodness knows what else.  But I've been roused into activity by the latest ...

Newspaper commentators and opinion-formers are largely united in their astonishment that massive bank bonuses in the state-owned banks, for ...

It isn’t ever quite clear, just from the newspapers, just where the delicate negotiations between the government and the banks have reached ...

I was hauled over by the police about 18 months ago under anti-terrorism legislation, largely because I was looking a little unusual. I was ...

I suppose Vince's remarks were unwise, but that is easy to say.  Personally, hardly a day goes by without me saying something seriously ...