Intellectuals have long expressed concern about the media’s potential for diminishing the quality of our culture. We should be more concerned by the ability of a ‘sound bite’ to diminish the

Three things caught my eye this morning, the rather large hole in British Telecoms Pension Pot, by some accounts £9Bn, more than its market capitalisation.

This is nothing new-

Mr

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Thaddeus commented on his post regarding Dizaei – “I’m not sure how to say this without provoking a storm of comments about my innate racism” – which made me

Time and again, the level of personal debt is blamed for the difficulties the UK is facing in climbing out of that recession – you know, the one we were best placed to weather.

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What could possibly go wrong?

To ensure we’re all clear about the banking sector having learned its lessons, the Financial Times yesterday noted that Peter Hancock (a prime mover in

The “Barred from Voting” campaign deserves some credit for illustrating their cause with perhaps the most exotic and least likely to elicit a sympathetic response, sector of the vast population of disenfranchised.

Best start practising now.

“Les oiseaux bleus qui survolaient les blanches falaises de Douvres”

Part of Gordon Brown’s plan to ‘halve our budget deficit in 4 years’ has been revealed today.

Bottoms up, lads!

This February 14th, there’s going to be a St Valentine’s Day love-in of unparalleled oddness. For not only is Piers Morgan to interview Gordon Brown on ITV,

Whilst all eyes are on the CPS, waiting to see how few they can get away with charging over the expenses fraud – without setting off a full scale riot, it is always instructive to

Yesterday on the markets The Full Bonkers was on display yesterday, as Bank of England spin met stark Stock Exchange over-reaction.

Never in the field of inhuman goforit have so many traders

How appropriate that today of all days, Jack of Kent should pose the question ‘Does Political blogging Really Make Any Difference’?

Can anybody doubt that without the influence on the

I don't believe it!

And this time, it really is official: experts are setting out ways for everyone to both avoid dementia and live longer. The bottom-line heads-up solution (I’ve