Overview: Vince Cable told two undercover reporters, Holly Watt and Laura Roberts, from the Daily Telegraph: that there is an internal war inside the Conservative/ LibDem coalition; that if he used his nuclear option, resigning, the coalition will fall; and that he was also at war with Murdoch's News Corporation over their intention to take Continue Reading

I wrote the following comment in the Independent two days ago. The idea of the LibDems as human shields seems to have spread.  Ed Milliband used the term in the Tuition Fee debate and Alastair Cambell is using it on his blog. Start of Comment Saddam used human shields. Cameron and Osborne didn't have to. With a little power bribe they can Continue Reading

Just to live up to the geek fantasy of Sweden - Julian Assange did actually have sex with two different women. He treated both badly, took stupid sexual risks, but was he a rapist and sexual predator The story Miss A: The condom broke with the first one and he's accused of deliberately making a hole in it. The day after this event Miss A took to Continue Reading

At the start of the Iraq war only one of the three army bases had enough toilet rolls, never mind other equipment. In the Falklands War most troops spent hundreds on pounds of their own money on decent sleeping bags and other cold weather kit. We are close to spending billions on upgrading Trident - a weapons system we cannot use without Continue Reading

The fundamental flaw with education policy after the election is that politicians will get in. Talking to a couple of teachers, both now thinking of leaving, is which is worse a Labour win - with 'a policy a day' Balls or a Cameron government that is made of people, who have seen public schools, (that is the state run places), but have not been Continue Reading

These guys didn't seem to understand the difference between a GP practice, with a small team, and a hospital, which maybe has one or two more people. American hospitals probably have as many bureaucrats as we do - including the people who check whether you can afford to pay for treatment or throw you out on the street or to the totally under Continue Reading