Transport for London (TfL) has this week owned up and made public the actual purchase price of the New Bus For London (NBfL), aka Boris Bus or BozzaMaster. And that price, at £354,500 per vehicle, makes the NBfL around £50,000 more expensive than a comparable off-the-shelf hybrid double...

A grim anniversary was celebrated yesterday, and that is the passing of a decade since the invasion of Iraq. To illustrate the new and more peaceful state of the country, the eve of that anniversary was marked by a wave of bombings that left 65 people dead. The...

Education is one subject that sets the cheaper end of the Fourth Estate off readily on one of its why-oh-why riffs with next to no prompting. This may not be unconnected to many hacks and pundits having never been near a state school, though it doesn't stop them from giving...

Travelling by train is, statistically, far safer than travelling by car - in terms of distance travelled, around ten times safer - but some persist in pushing the line that somehow the railway does not care about safety, or at least that it does not take it seriously enough. This...

Matthew Sinclair, chief non-job holder at the so-called Taxpayers' Alliance (TPA) has demonstrated his expertise and versatility by bringing out a new book called Let Them Eat Carbon. And he has secured a few column inches from the usual suspects within the Fourth Estate. Seasoned TPA watchers, though,...

Those who look in on the website of the so-called Taxpayers' Alliance (TPA), the grassroots equivalent of the Peoples' Front of Judaea, may have noticed that the output of knocking copy aimed at Government - any Government - has fallen recently, although there are still regular attempts to...

Across the north Atlantic, Newsweek magazine has a contribution on the phone hacking saga from one of the two reporters that brought the world the original "gate": Carl Bernstein's piece is headed "Murdoch's Watergate?" and in it he draws parallels between the fall of Richard Milhous Nixon, and...

As David Cameron ends his press conference - and finds that the questions about his hiring of Andy Coulson are both well informed and incessant - he is discovering that condemning the behaviour of the Murdochs and their hangers-on is one thing, but swimming away from the pull...

2011 is to be the year that the Huffington Post makes its debut in the UK.

The year also marks an anniversary on both sides of the north Atlantic, that being 40 years since both the UK and USA began what Governments in both countries now call the "War...