Nick Robinson: "I don't have many [political] views left"
The BBC's political editor tackles questions of impartiality and bias.The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson has got a book out, and the Telegraph is serialising extracts from it. In one of them,...
View ArticleMeet Leonid Fainberg, the ultimate Ukrainian mobster
The man who tried to buy a Soviet submarine to transport drugs is fast becoming an internet celebrity from his prison cell in Panama. Speaking out from her cell in Kharkiv, jailed former Prime Minister...
View ArticleDisability should not be seen as a "punishment" for abortion or anything else
It is obscene to degrade and stigmatise disabled people as some kind of punishment for past wrongdoing. An article in the Irish Examiner on 11 October 2012 reported that a guest speaker at children’s...
View Article"Generals for hire" - yet another lobbying scandal
A Sunday Times investigation has secretly filmed former generals boasting about lobbying to win multi-million-pound defence deals for arms firms.A Sunday Times investigation has secretly filmed...
View ArticleSocial media prosecutions threaten free speech in the UK - and beyond
Traditions like Speakers' Corner protect free speech on the street, so why can't we do it on the internet?Visitors to Hyde Park on a Sunday can see people standing on stepladders engaged in passionate...
View ArticleMitt Romney sends birthday wishes to Margaret Thatcher
The US presidential candidate wishes the former PM a happy 87th birthday.He's never one to shy away from controversy, is he? Mitt Romney has tweeted his birthday wishes to Margaret Thatcher on the...
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Michael Gove: I would vote to leave the EU
The education secretary has reportedly told friends that the UK has to be ready to threaten to leave the EU.The Mail on Sunday has splashed today on the revelation that Michael Gove has apparently told...
View ArticleThe richest states will vote Obama and the poorest states will vote Romney
Yes, "it's the economy, stupid" is true, but other issues are influencing voters counter-intuitively, too.According to a report last month, the five richest states in the USA are Maryland, Alaska, New...
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Man jumps from space: giffed
Today, a man jumped off a balloon 36km high, freefalling from space for almost four and a half minutes. This is really all you need to see to understand that. The gif was made by Cadfael, and is...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
Vince Cable on the EU. The European project was constructed to rescue Europe from extreme nationalism and conflict. There is no guarantee that won’t return. Vince Cable warns of a possible return to...
View ArticleMorning Call: pick of the papers
The ten must-read comment pieces from this morning's papers. 1. The world is stuck in a vicious cycle (Financial Times) Without a full course of treatment, the economic patient risks relapse, writes...
View ArticleAbortion, reason and the left: Why Mehdi Hasan is wrong
It's a lack of consideration of women's lives, not gender or faith, that sours the abortion debate.This is a response to Mehdi Hasan's column "Being pro-life doesn’t make me any less of a lefty" The...
View ArticleThere will be no Lib Dem U-turn on boundary changes
The offer of state funding (or anything else) will not induce Clegg to change his stance. Without the introduction of the proposed boundary changes, there's almost no chance of the Conservatives...
View ArticleOn the threshold of the air – the songs of Viktor Ullmann
Coming soon at the Inside Out Festival.For obvious reasons, there is very little art that was created by the persecuted during the years of the Holocaust: Miklós Radnóti’s poems, taken from the pocket...
View Article"The weaker growth was sort of inevitable at some stage"
Business quote of the day. "The weaker growth was sort of inevitable at some stage" Jim O’Neill, chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, on China’s inflation rate dipping to 1.9 per...
View ArticleIf you want to live ethically, start with your bank account
Moving your money is an opportunity to make the banking system as a whole better, writes Co-operatives UK's Ed Mayo.Do you have a bank account? If so, congratulations. You have a vote in what kind of...
View ArticleTuition fees make students obsess about "value for money" from their education
As a second-time student who now pays the fees, Steven Baxter has noticed a change in his attitude to learning.The year was 1998. I left university much as I’d joined it – with a sense of vague dread,...
View ArticleFive questions answered on the West Coast Mainline train line talks
The DFT's decision.The Department for Transport has announced it will ask Virgin Trains to temporarily continue running the West Coast Mainline train service. We answer five questions on the DFT's...
View ArticleTil debt us do part
An interview with Stewart Lee.What do Meat Loaf, Walt Disney, Oscar Wilde and Burt Reynolds have in common? Yes, they achieved success in their chosen fields but that’s not the answer I’m looking for....
View ArticleThe age of the social sonogram - where does the oversharing end?
The only way to cure the "too much information" epidemic is... too much information.We all have different ways of breaking special news. Some of us get straight on the phone to our mums; some of us go...
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