Paul Dacre's speech to the Society of Editors is a powerful defence of tabloid journalism, and the freedoms it depends on.  Worth readi...

By 2050 Ed Miliband will be more than eighty years old and no longer in government. The new 80% target for greenhouse gas emission cuts i...

We might have expected fuzzy concepts like 'happiness economics', and the idea that economic growth is overrated, would be dropped a...

While Peter Mandelson's reappointment is clearly the political story of the reshuffle I think the more interesting change, in policy ter...

At the Conservative and Labour conferences I spoke at events on the subject of food miles. The idea that consumers should pay great attenti...

This , via Ross Douthat, is truly terrifying: "The writers revere Melville's original text, but their graphic novel-style version w...

Reagan made this speech in 1981, not long after becoming President. It strikes the right balance between confronting the challenges facing...

One of the sites that has linked to the Brown Calculator is TheGrumble.Com .  A generalist site for people with some gripe about the modern...