The bombings in Boston are yet another tragic reminder of how indiscriminate terrorists are. They exist simply to create terror in the hope that fear alone will cause a retreat from freedom itself. The inalienable right that is central to our way of life.

But in this pursuit, the terrorists...

Today president Barack Obama will give his fifth State of the Union address. This will be Obama's second high profile speech in a matter of weeks. At his inauguration, Obama used lofty liberal rhetoric on social issues. At the State of the Union, it is expected that Obama...

I've spent my Christmas writing a new TV show for the BBC. It's called Chronic Depression and I am going to ask for it to be screened on Christmas Day next year. I haven't finished writing all of it yet but I have decided that the plot will feature bigamy,...

Did you know that the gap between the tax that the UK government is meant to collect compared to the tax that it actually collects is £32 billion.

£32 billion, that's enough to rebuilt 400 of the £80 million flash academy schools with the £300...

46.2 million Americans live in poverty. This represents 15% of the population. Give or take a million, that's about the same population as Spain.

The biggest economy in the world, the global wealth creator that is the United States of America is effectively living with...

This one has been puzzling me, so I thought I'd turn it over to the Huffington Post community or Huffingotn Post Live to see if we can find an answer before Election Day (because after that it would be cheating). I know the case for 'Obama is lucky' has been...

Mark my words the 2012 Presidential Election is all going to come down to Ohio. Other swing states like Florida, Virginia and Colorado are going to be important but looking at the electoral map, all roads lead to the buckeye state and its 18 Electoral College votes. The candidates know...

Tuesday's second presidential debate is a really big deal for all of us. Before the first debate it was all going so well for Obama. He had a clear lead in almost every swing state and an opponent whose vote winning strategy was based on the premise of telling half...

Hello Republican voting Alabama, Mitt Romney wants your Federal money back. And that goes for all you other States in the Union that take more from the Federal Government than you give back.

Mitt Romney says redistribution of wealth is now bad. Helping yourself, whatever that means, is now...

$7 billion - that's how much the 2012 US election campaign will have cost after all the ballots have been cast. In 2010, UK election spending was £31million ($48million). Even if the UK was the same size as America, spending to get candidates elected in the...

We had two major elections in Europe last weekend and yet the column inches devoted to Sarkozy losing to Francois Hollande completely and utterly eclipsed the reports from Greece.

The media were going overboard on what Hollande's victory meant. The left were celebrating the end of the Merkozy austerity...

No.

But since you asked, and for those of you are not that interested but want to sound like you have been reading the Washington Post everyday, then here is a summary as to why he wont win in ten easy steps...

1. He made Newt...

Talks resume this week between the fuel distributors and Unite the Union to avoid a petrol delivery strike. I bet Francis Maude can hardly suppress his anxiety as the prospect of a REAL strike actually gets closer. After scaring the public into filling everything from bath tubs to pickled onion...

It occurred to me the other day that the Republican Primaries have become identical to the TV show The Biggest Loser. At the start of the Biggest Loser, fat people stand in front of their friends and family, announce they want to lose weight and then troop off to do...

Does this Israel vs. Iran situation and what's been happening in Syria scare the bejeesus out of everyone or is it just me? Thing is, this latest round of "my nuclear weapon is bigger than your pre-emptive strike" or "I choose to answer democracy with bombs" is nothing new really....

The merits of Obamacare, how to fix the economy, taxing the super rich, cutting the deficit, balancing the budget. Let's face it does anyone really listen to what the candidates are saying on these issues anymore? The Republicans hate Obama but right now they hate each other too and without...