A good day for Mr Carswell from Harwich

DOUGLAS Carswell makes no secret of his belief that the power of the state should be rowed back and citizen's given direct democracy through having the right and the power to launch legislation. He's also unafraid of tackling head-on...

Brown humiliated

HARSH? Yes. Fair? Far more than fair. Gordon Brown looked on his knees in the Commons at lunchtime. He has been forced into bailing out one of his key policies, the abolition of the 10p tax rate, because he had totally miscalculated the effect...

Cry `God for Harry, England and Saint George'

HERE we are again. Another St George's Day tomorrow but apart from some token flag raising over 10 Downing Street, the patron saint of England will be all but ignored by government and the nation. Ministers who make the right noises by rejoycing in public...

Bottler's US oddyssey upstaged by Pope's pledge to exclude child abusers from the priesthood

IT was always going to be the case that if Gordon Brown wanted to up his profile with the Americans during his visit to the United States, he would have to hope it was a slack news day. Unfortunately, that hasn't been the case. Through some crass...

Auntie may have to hand over some of her dosh

ACCORDING to an Internet gossip site, 13 employees of the BBC spent five days in New York on a fact finding mission to study the latest trendiest web designers, digital shops, and production boutiques. They stayed at the...

Jerusalem falls foul of the Church of England's guardians of political correctness

SPARE the Church of England from meddling clerics! The Anglican movement, riven by strife over women priests, gay bishops, same sex relationships, and homosexual  marriages, now thinks its time to rewrite this nation's heritage by vetoeing the singing...

Hattie's triumph and the Lib Dems clash with the Speaker again

IT was the day when the also rans got up in the Commons to represent their parties. Convention has it that when the Prime Minister is absent, the Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders don't show up, on the basis I suppose that whoever is the...