I'm sure many UK readers, like me, woke up to the Today programme last Wednesday morning and heard Dr Vivienne Nathanson from the British Medical Association (BMA) speaking about the association's latest report, which called for a blanket ban on smoking in cars. Meaning that adults would no longer be...

While reporting on the 9 November student protest in London last Wednesday, I heard the all-too-familiar "Maggie! Maggie! Maggie! Die! Die! Die!" chant being belted out through megaphones and echoed by protesters.

This bizarre refrain is one that's become a regular fixture in the 2011 Protesters' Songbook. I also...

Do I support the Muslims Against Crusades (MAC) planned 'surprise' intended to disrupt the two minute silence on Armistice Day? No. Do I support their burning of poppies while chanting "British soldiers burn in hell"? No.

I have no sympathy for this small group of attention-seeking agitators,...

I find it really striking that the joint attempt by police and the Crown Prosecution Service to slap an Anti Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) on English Defence League leader Stephen Lennon, which would effectively have prevented him from protesting with the group he founded, seems not to have...

If I hadn't been there to report on it, I would have gone along to the Enfield anti-riot 'vigilante' patrol regardless. Like many of the hundred-or-so people who patrolled the streets of the North London town on Tuesday night, I'd spent the previous night indoors watching nihilistic thugs rampage outside,...

Poor old Jonnie Marbles. Not only did the aspiring twenty-something comedian have to miss his family holiday in order to be sentenced for lobbying a foam pie at Murdoch. But he's now going to serve six weeks in prison for his actions, meaning he misses the...

Up until recently, the liberal Twitterati have been faced with a dilemma. By tweeting links of Daily Mail and Sun articles to their followers in order to engage in a collective two minute hate against the idiocy of the tabloid press (and their millions of gullible, easily manipulated readers), they...

The flamboyant son of Pink Floyd star David Gilmour, notorious for being photographed swinging from the Cenotaph during last year's student protests, is due to be sentenced today for violent disorder on the demos, which could see him doing a stint in prison. Some of Gilmour's defenders say...

Members of the English Defence League (EDL) marched in Cambridge, Plymouth and Halifax over the weekend in protests intended to 'defend [English] culture'. Counter-demonstrations took place in each of the towns, attacking the EDL as being 'racist', 'fascist' and divisive. More demonstrations are being planned in towns across the country...

It's been four years since the sight of smokers huddling together outside pubs in order to enjoy a cigarette became the norm as a result of the illiberal ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces being introduced in England. Far from being satisfied with this infringement on peoples' freedom to...