Turmoil rescues Brown for now

DAVID Cameron may well be a Prime Minister in waiting, but paradoxically, this financial turmoil which threatens to engulf us all seems to be increasing the popularity of Gordon Brown. Many of the regulatory measures put in place by Brown when he was...

Bin Laden has the last laugh

WITH the world's finances in turmoil, Osama Bin Laden will be laughing long and loud  in his cave somewhere in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. Bin Laden's aim is to bring down the west, and seeing the US and Britain on their knees having been...

Comrades: Keep right on to the end of the road

HE certainly raised his game in Manchester. The conference delegates loved him. But still the suspicions remain that Labour is not entirely happy with Gordon Brown. Further polling evidence came even as Brown spoke of the relentless march of...

Miliband processes around the conference - but be aware of the Green Cardinal

DAVID Miliband has a certain look of arrogance about him. In days of old it would be dubbed patrician. At every opportunity, he walks around the exhibitors' section of the Labour conference here in Manchester, accompanied by an entourage of hangers...

Maggie's inheritors - aka Liberal Democrats - quaff Pimm's after a good day's work jettisoning social justice

LIBERAL Democrat conference delegates are busy people. They rush pell mell around the fringe meetings and inside the debating chamber as if what momentous decisions they are about to take will get the world onto its collective feet in wonderment. But...

Labour's message to the voters: Tories will leave you on your own

AFTER a year of unmitigating bad headlines, Labour is preparing to luanch its great fightback when it gathers in Manchester next week. And the party will do it not by going down the path of attacking individual Tories, but by the good old...

Hockey mom hammers the liberal elite

THE American establishment and its cheerleaders in the liberal media were well and truly rubbished in Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's acceptance speechh as the Republican Party's vice-presidential nominee. It was a tour de force of withering scorn to...

The Iron Lady struck down and vulnerable

MARGARET Thatcher has dementia. The 21st century plague is affecting more and more of our increasingly elderly population and our former Prime Minister is now diagnosed with Alzheimer's.   I have a maiden aunt, Peggy, in Hampshire who lives...