Alex Tsipras, the first Greek called Alex to come close to destroying a continent for 2,400 years, is 36 years old.

36! I'm only 32, but there is absolutely no danger of me running the country in the next four years (pro-Europeans, breathe a sigh of relief). Still, it...

Sometimes, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. I seem to be one of the only people who has noticed that amid the biggest financial crisis in a generation, parliament has just insouciantly waved through £350 million on some drawings of some new submarines. Maybe I'm being unfair...

Some of the stories coming out of the eurozone are heart-breaking. Greece's unemployment has risen by 10% since february, a full-blown bank run seems to be taking place & fascists are being elected; Spain is back in recession; unemployment there is over 25 per cent, rising to a...

When I first heard about The Iron Lady, I thought "that's an odd direction for the franchise, but I hope they give Downey Junior & Paltrow bit parts, and I look forward to seeing the final showdown with the Scargillbot". But all joking aside, I really think that...

It's fair to say, plenty of people have doubts about the current Labour frontbench. Nothing has convinced me more that they are incompetent than the leaking of a speech that Liam 'There's no money left' Byrne will give this week.

In this speech, fully endorsed by Ed Miliband,...

So, Standard & Poor, one of the largest credit reference agencies in the world, has downgraded the US's credit rating. What does that mean?

Well, first off, every picture desk on every paper in the world has been raiding the excellent Brokers with hands on...

Every morning, at around seven am, five officers of London's Metropolitan Police undertake what the Police consider to be a vital duty. Starting from the Cabinet war rooms, they fan out across Green Park, moving northwest, waking up and moving on the unfortunate homeless people who have chosen to bed...

Lots of very smart friends of mine wonder how in a week with such a huge scandal about newspapers, so many journalists are concerned about a very minor fringe story, concerning an Independent columnist named Johann Hari (editor's note: Hari is also a HuffPost blogger).

On top of...

I'm not a big fan of the Murdochs.

Between all of the phone hacking, the assaults on civil liberties, the studied electoral manipulation, lying to boost their own position, while doing damage to the allied cause in WW1, the assaults on

The Government is trying to save money in the public sector; that's fine - indeed, that's a big part of what I voted for. However, I'm not in favor of unfair, symbolic, ideological cuts. Why are cuts to teacher's pensions unfair, ideological & symbolic? Simple: The Teachers Pension Scheme is...