I will never understand why people feel the need to physically attack politicians. How ever you much you hate them, be they Silvio Berlusconi, Nick …

The people of Switzerland have voted, democratically, to ban the building of minarets. More than 57% of voters and 22 of the 26 Swiss cantons …

The Scottish Parliament should not be given any further powers as it currently stands. There is already a massive disparity between Scotland and the rest …

So the Czech Republic, the final country, has now ratified the Lisbon treaty/EU constitution and it is expected to come into force as soon as …

There have been several events and reports worthy of note in the last week in the world of local blogs and websites . I thought it worth a roundup, and some reflections

The Irish have, at the second time of asking, voted Yes to the Lisbon Treaty. One must ask, however, why shouldn’t there be a third …

Although my immediate reaction to the concept of BNP leader Nick Griffin being invited on to Question Time was “WTF?!”, as soon as I got …

Unlike a lot of Tory bloggers – and apparently Tory members – I think that it is a bad thing that Nigel Farage has chosen …

Jack Straw’s new proposals for continuing to reform of the House of Lords (just a decade after starting it!) bear an extremely marked similarity to …

We live in a democracy – or at least we’re supposed to. So why is a man being sacked from his job for participating in …