Labour’s publicity sous-chef, Kenny Young, expert on all matters Glaswegian, must be whistling softly through his teeth this morning. A narrow escape.

A scant few hours before the thinned ranks of the faithful turned up in

In my good friend Dr. Fraud’s Psychotic Wagehike Development theory, which extrapolated his Bonus Envy thesis, the ‘too late to cancel’ stage (approximately 3.5 to 6 months before the Olympics are held) is the first period of

“Millions of cancer carers missing out on benefits“

I shall overlook, on this occasion, the oxymoron of the Telegraph headline – they go on to say that 5% of the 1.1 million cancer

‘Shisha Bar Danger’ screeches the Birmingham Mail, helpfully regurgitating the misinformation in the 2009 BBC post which explained that Shisha smoking was ’100 times more dangerous than cigarettes’  – a claim which has been comprehensibly

There is a historical precedent for the current uproar concerning – according to your political leaning – either ‘benefit scroungers’ or the ‘deserving poor’, and that is the position of conscientious objectors during World War ll.

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What is it that the ‘Left’ are really afraid of? Losing a client voting base comprised almost exclusively these days of public sector workers and the vulnerable dependant? ‘Wot about the Workers’ is hugely inappropriate, for they only stand

Oh wondrous morn, oh joyous revelation! My cup runneth over.

No need for a revolution, determined inactivity is all that is required. Though a mass gathering of a few hundred thousand citizens stamping their feet and

Despite being mad as a hatter, and a lawyer to boot, you (hopefully!) would not think that Ms Raccoon, Ian Brady, Derry Irvine, and Phil Woolas had anything in common, but we do. We

The toothless Standards and Privileges Committee of the House of Commons has just given birth to another congenitally idiotic report. 15 months in gestation, it has emerged blinking into the world, determined to prove it is