Can audience response to speeches predict election results?

View image | gettyimages.com Psychologists at the University of York have analysed the speeches that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney gave in t...

Japan 500 yen 2016 - Fukushima & Tokio

New bimetallic commemoratives: 'Last pieces of the series Japan prefectures : Fukushima & Tokio ' The prefectures coins release...

Over The Edge

On my way to my junior school I would pass a pub (don't do that now) where a black glass plaque on the wall by the door had gilt letters...

A Double Dose Of Cheer And Chuckles

Laughter, most importantly the laughter of children, especially when everyone is celebrating something funny together is seriously one of th...

DP1 the prototype Deltic filmed in colour

Wikipedia tells us about the later career of DP1: In March 1961 DP1 was withdrawn after a serious powerplant failure; plans to test it in C...

Paddy Ashdown says it's 1992 but it feels more like 1983 or 1975

View image | gettyimages.com Paddy Ashdown tells Total Politics: "There is a really big issue that needs to be addressed by the left,...

Liberal Democrats are right to fight Oldham West and Royton hard

During the Coalition years it was taken for granted by the Liberal Democrats that it was not worth our putting up a serious fight in parliam...

Leicester's Turkey Café is for sale

Browsing in an estate agent's window this lunchtime I came across an auction notice for one of Leicester's most distinctive building...

Angola 50 & 100 kwanzas 2015 - 40 Years of Independence

New circulating commemoratives: The National Bank of Angola released yesterday these 2 coins to mark the 40 Years of Independence (which t...