Spain's silly season silliness over Gibraltar
Spain is rapidly getting tangled in a ‘lose-lose’ situation. The people suffering most from the "blockade" of the border crossing are the Spanish workers who travel to Gibraltar every day
- 14 August 2013
Poor excuses for the failure of foreign aid programmes
Globalisation of capitalism has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty. There are no equivalent figures for the effects of foreign aid. One wonders why...
- 12 August 2013
The special relationship Obama can't sully
The only thing ‘special’ these days is Obama’s evident distaste for the British. And yet there is an enduring special relationship with roots that go far deeper than the president of the day
- 6 August 2013
Comrade Bob: My part in Mugabe's victory
After the latest Zimbabwe "elections", Robin Mitchinson recalls how he helped supervise the only elections Mugabe truly won, and explains why it all went wrong
- 2 August 2013
Not just the newspapers that were hacking? Could lawyers have been at it too? No way...
If it is a crime to pay an official to release information, as in Murdoch, why is it not a crime to pay an official to conceal it, as in NHS?
- 31 July 2013
"Labour in union crisis"
With Labour under its weakest leadership since Michael Foot perhaps the Unions see their way back to the power they once wielded
- 29 July 2013
When did it become fashionable to be a "snitch"?
It is now becoming not only more common for people to grass-up others but, worse, socially acceptable, even a hobby
- 4 July 2013
We need a new Liberal Party
What we need is a new Liberal Party - a real one
- 24 June 2013
Tory panic as UKIP D-Day approaches
Oh, what a lovely war. A day away from the local elections and the Tories are in a blue funk. And all because of a personable geezer called Farage
- 1 May 2013
The worst government since... the last one!
Growth is occurring, says Robin Mitchinson, it's just that this government can't seem to foster it...
- 1 April 2013
The powers that be are itching to get their hands on social media
The post-Leveson stuff stinks. They're trying to get their hands on bloggers, sources and the mainstream media. So goodbye, free press...
- 29 March 2013
Is this what a mini Cold War feels like?
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Psy?
- 22 March 2013
Everything to play for in EU-US Free Trade Agreement
What would a Free Trade Agreement mean for the US and the EU?
- 13 February 2013
Rotherham: who wins? PC or love?
It seems in Rotherham there's yet another PC apparatchik who couldn’t understand that race has nothing to do with love
- 26 November 2012
Obama: "Send me somewhere east of Suez..."
Obama is happily making himself look like a fool in Southeast Asia while those in opposition continue to lick their wounds
- 20 November 2012
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