Will the general election results be more boring than people expect?

Iain Dale has been doing sterling work predicting the result in May's general election for each constituency. When it came to Scotland,...

To Neverland

You would have thought the neighborhood street in our small town had become a barnyard so many rooster crows could be heard.  Most of us hav...

Big cats in Shropshire?

From the Shropshire Star : They’ve been seen all over Shropshire and Mid Wales. There have been photographic images, shadowy CCTV images, an...

Six of the Best 487

It seems that David Cameron’s enthusiasm for mass surveillance comes from watching TV dramas, says Paul Bernal . Nick Tyrone asks a questio...

Jonathan Meades on Birmingham

Steve Emerson , the soi-disant terrorism expert who told Fox News that Birmingham is a "Muslim-only city" where non-Muslims ...

100 years of Ladybird Books?

Today is being celebrated as the centenary of Ladybird Books. The blog Old Ladybird Books sounds a sceptical note: So what happened in 1915...

Norman Baker tries to let some fresh air in

Civil Service World has an interview with the former Liberal Democrat minister Norman Baker about his experience of working with Whitehall....

"Beith be not proud though some have called thee mighty"

One of the most attractive things about Paddy Ashdown is that - in Denis Healey's famous formulation - he has a hinterland. That is, a w...

An Aware Bear

There will be times we want something we don't need.  On the flip side, we may need something we don't want.  When what we need and ...