On BBC Question Time last week an angry audience member asked the panel why Britain should be sending military help to the French in Mali. "I don't remember the French coming to our aid when we went to the Falklands" he fumed to loud applause. At the time Britain's commitment...

The Olympics bring out the best and worst of us. Amid the rampant commercialism and LOCOG's draconian restrictions burst the creative genius of Danny Boyle's opening ceremony.

Beside the slavering corporate greed, heroic feats of human sporting endeavour are being performed daily. And just a few hundred metres from...

As the long wet British summer was transformed this week by blue skies and back-to-back sunshine, the mood of the nation lifted dramatically. But despite this empirically observed but scientifically unproven connection, the weather is not one of the ten key indicators in the Office of National Statistics 'happiness index'...

If it is true that wars begin in the minds of men then Iran and Western powers have been at a state of war for some time. Martial rhetoric has been accompanied by steady military build-up and unprecedented diplomatic shut-down as each side throws away their steering wheel in this...

Almost four months after rioters transformed Broken Britain from metaphor to reality the hand-wringing, soul-searching and blame-dishing is still going on.

Last week's interim government report on the riots was followed this week by the publication of a data-driven study by the Guardian and the London School of Economics....

"Is it mere coincidence that we have been served eviction notices at the same time that riot police are clearing out the occupations in Wall Street, Oakland, Dallas, Atlanta, Vermont, Denver, Oregon and Salt Lake City?" asks one Occupy London Stock Exchange protester.

"And is it mere coincidence all...

"I do not think this report is likely to be a game changer", says Paul Ingram, executive director of the British American Security Information Council, referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) latest report on Iran's nuclear programme.

Presented to the IAEA's board of governors in Vienna today,...

"I've had enough" says Tim Saunders. "Enough of this grotesque greed and fraud on a massive scale. Enough of spiralling education costs and watching my mother scrapping by on a meagre pension. Enough of the claim that the banks are too big to fail."

Forty-five year-old chartered accountant Saunders...