Prisoners should be given the vote. At least some of them should - the non-murderers and non-rapists among them.

I know I am vastly in the minority with this opinion and I risk becoming very unpopular by publicising it, but as we are talking about democracy here. Please let...

The managerial merry-go-round has gone into full swing over the last fortnight in the Football League Championship, with no less than six clubs appointing new managers.

For England's second tier managers, Halloween is consistently the scariest time of the year. Just two and a half months into the season Championship...

In the aftermath of the Lance Armstrong revelations, the debate in cycling has turned to the sport's future. How does cycling deal with its troubled past in a way that can truly rebuild its reputation?

While the sport's leading teams are united in their determination to guarantee a clean...

In the closing ten weeks of the presidential campaign, Mitt Romney and his Republican backers have hammered home their favourite line that under his presidency the United States will be in the best hands to recover from "four years of economic downturn". In the three presidential debates with Barack Obama,...

Lance Armstrong has never failed a drugs test. But his decision to drop his defence of doping charges led to the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) stripping him of his seven Tour de France titles and banning him from competitive cycling forever.

The Lance Armstrong drug dispute is just...

Every four years the pain of the Olympic hangover is cured by the popular pastime of football-bashing as the extraordinary achievements and acts of sportsmanship of Olympians is compared to the direct opposites attributed to footballers. London 2012 has proven to be no exception.

In fact, the criticism aimed at...