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The party conferences were fairly lacklustre, receiving a generally loop warm reception from the general public. Both of the main parties failed to break out of their predetermined stereotypes and advocated little change. For Labour, who have lost significant support following...

The votes may have been tallied, and a decision reached, but the aftershocks of the Scottish Referendum last week will continue for quite some time, especially within the Labour Party. By far the biggest challenge facing them will be working out how to woo back the many voters in...

The 24 November deadline for Iran and the P5+1, a group of six nations involved in diplomatic efforts since 2006 to attempt to find a resolution to issues surrounding the Iranian nuclear programme, in comparison to previous efforts, has potential to bring a solution to the issue...

You might be forgiven for thinking that the ‘No’ vote has been rather complacent, given the sudden flurry of activity this week. The minute the Sunday Times published the results of a YouGov poll, we had a flow of opinions and politicians trying to recapture the...

With the eyes of the world riveted on Wales and the NATO summit currently underway there, you could be forgiven for thinking that there was nothing more important than deciding who is next in line to get shot at. The conflicts in Ukraine and across the Middle East are bloody and...

There’s a depressing familiarity about the tensions between Russia and the West at the moment. While it’s not yet up there with the very real fears that I had growing up in the seventies and eighties that bombs could start falling at any moment, I must admit to a...

The House of Commons Defence Committee released a report yesterday underlining disquiet within Nato about its ability to respond to Russian aggression should it move against a member state. The report seems to back the statements made by General Sir Richard Shirreff in July to...

The word ‘outrage’ has often felt diluted in recent years. There has been a laziness in its use in tabloid headlines to describe boorish behaviour by celebrities or mildly inconvenient politically driven decisions, but the loss of Malaysian Airways Flight MH17 in the...

If the Chancellor has his way, at least another £25 billion pounds will be cut from the UK budget in his quest to overcome the UK’s deficit and bring it back to a surplus. This isn’t the first time the figure has been bandied around – it has been forecast by a number of other...

Rumours are flying thick and fast of a rift between Iain Duncan Smith and Francis Maude, after a team of IT experts working for the Cabinet Office were withdrawn from working on the Universal Credit Scheme. The Scheme has already been in the news over IT-related problems, wit...