(C) D.M.
The recent split in the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), with party giant Lindsey German and 50 supporters leaving the party, continues a predictable pattern for the Left. Swiftly following the division of Respect into …

(c) WorldIslandInfo.com
In case you haven’t heard yet, 2010 has been decreed the International Year of Biodiversity by the UN. This means that throughout the world, conservationists environmentalists and other activists are making the most …

(c) buggolo
If you think of an image of Britain in the first ten years of the 21st century, you may think of the queue of people outside Northern Rock, stretchers carrying the wounded from the …

(c) Kradlum

Reports are reaching the blogosphere but mysteriously enough not the mainstream media, that Mayor of London Boris Johnson is up to his old tricks. By this, I don’t mean ‘appearing amusingly flustered on comedy panel shows’, …

(c) World Economic Forum
Gordon Brown is under fire from the press, yet again, for a second blunder involving a letter of condolence sent to the parents of a soldier who died in Afghanistan. Just …

Back in 2007, so a popular Russian news service reported, fishermen working on the Sea of Azov (which is the blue bit on the map just to the north of the Black Sea) caught an …

(c) Alan Dean
It’s a testament to the capabilities of modern technology that it has made redundant the observation by American feminist author Liz Carpenter that, “what a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. …

(c) flikr
This spring, the British media was briefly gripped by stories of East African piracy – now everybody knows that Somali buccaneers terrorise hapless ships in the Gulf of Aden. It is less widely-known, however, …

(c) Martin Rowson 2009
For Barack Obama, the past fortnight must go down as the most bizarre of his Presidency.
On the one hand, his personal support for Chicago’s Olympic bid ended in disappointment. Cue much …

(c) whatleydude
The Sun’s decision to switch its support to the Tories should come as no surprise, even if the timing of the decision was cruel even by the standards of News Corporation, coming as it …

“A Prime Minister with nothing to hide will not hesitate to bring in the best medical professionals for treatment whenever necessary. One with a secret illness, fearful of drawing public attention, would be more likely to pretend nothing was wrong”

(C) World Economic Forum
So The Times kindly revealed to everyone this week that, shock-horror, not many people like Gordon Brown.  In fact the general public would prefer pretty much anybody in charge but him. It’s …

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Douglas Carswell is an interesting figure. I admire his radicalism and his readiness …

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(c) Guerry
I can sense the media’s disappointment at the subsiding of the scale of the swine flu virus. It was only two weeks ago that the headline makers were rubbing their hands at the prospect …