There must be few comforts for Captain Francesco Schettino of the Costa Concordia at the moment. His name is being dragged through the dirt for, apparently, abandoning his post. While dodging the rotting fruit, it may console him to know that far greater ships are ploughing their hubristic way towards...

Diane Abbot MP is in trouble. First she tweeted: "white people love playing divide and rule" and that black people should not fall into this trap - she did not resign. However, tasting blood, the anti-Abbot brigade (whoever they are) have now come up with a tweet Diane twittered earlier...

David Cameron and Nick Clegg make a sweet couple; smooth suits, sincere accents and policy overlaps. Sadly, this political marriage is currently going through a rocky patch; an argument is brewing.

On this argument depends not only their own marriage, but the marriage of every other couple in the...

On 15 November, America officially left Iraq - mission accomplished, the war is over. While pondering the rights and wrongs of the intervention in Iraq, I heard about Sam Main a young Scottish student who was thrown of the Edinburgh to Perth train by the 'Big Man' for not having...

Imagine that tomorrow, through a series of unexpected and unfortunate events involving the collapse of the euro, some desperate eurocrats and a P&O ferry, you end up dying in hospitable. You will probably be looking forward to a quiet end as you depart this veil of tears, dignified in death,...