So HBOS was in the doo-doo. It was "too big to fail". So it would have to be nationalised like Northern Rock. But wait ! There was a better answer. Why not steer it into the arms of a bigger, financially sound bank - like Lloyds. OK, that would create a "much too big to fail" bank and breach all kin...

Those Martin Kelly dubs the Bought Priesthood ('the constellation of technocrats, columnists, pundits, university professors, public intellectuals, business lobbyists and so on who are said to benefit from the political status quo and use their position to defend and support it') are doubtless wholl...

Craig Fugate is Obama's choice for the head of FEMA. Fortunately Fugate seems actually to be capable of doing this job, has experience. For Craig Fugate was the head of Florida's emergency response system. President Barack Obama is tapping a Republican appointee to head the Federal Emergency...

'Anti-racist' Lib Dem councillor blots her copybook. Her 'coconut' jibe is doubly offensive - to the (Asian) Conservative councillor at whom it was directed, and in its implication that white = bad. She's accusing Ms Jethra of being a traitor to her skin colour - an accusation that levelled by a whi...

This woman, using the obvious alias 'J. Smith' is wanted for claiming over £116,000 of State benefits on false pretences while working as a Secretary in the Westminster area of London. If you see her, do not approach her - she never goes anywhere without her minders. Instead, ring the number of the...

Peston, today, quoting Adair Turner on Jan 21 : There's a double argument why über-bankers should not be paid even a farthing of performance-related remuneration - and this argument can be extrapolated from no less august a source than the recent magisterial speech by Adair Turner, chairman of the ...

(photo by Ozier Muhammad for The New York Times) A feel-good Obama story - while generally the Obamarama drives me nuts, and I hate the racism and inverse racism that gave him so many votes, you can still see why these guys, who I've blogged about before, would be chuffed. Now in their 80s and 90s, ...

And "17% of people going into higher education are ethnic minority". So sayeth Sandra Kerr, interviewed on yesterdays Today programme (at ten to seven, so not archived - I have an mp3). Before joining Race for Opportunity, Sandra worked in the Cabinet Office advising Cabinet Ministers on diversity a...

I don't know why Labour want legislation to facilitate State (i.e. taxpayer) funding of political parties. They seem to be doing quite nicely as it is. “Taxpayers’ money has been recycled into the coffers of the Labour party through a children’s charity,� said Nick Hurd, shadow charities min...

Children as young as eight were among the audience at the performance of The Comedy of Errors at The Old Laundry Theatre, in Bowness, Cumbria. Actors from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) took part in the show. It featured one of the play's characters Dromio guarding a door when ...