The team representing the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (shortened to Team GB for some reason) finished fourth in the medals table with 19 Gold, 13 Silver and 15 Bronze (a grand total of 47 - also the fourth highest behind the USA, China and Russia).With a British population of 60,700,000, that equates to a rate of return of one Gold per 3.2 million and one medal per 1.3 million. As the ...

TV's Iain Dale has nominated me and so here I go! Where was I when...Princess Diana's death - 31 August 1997I had just returned from a nice holiday in the South of France and was woken by telephone by my then girlfriend to be told the news. It was the first time I became aware of the benefits and drawbacks of the 24 news schedule. The BBC kept going back to the same footage and ...

Poor Gerhard Schroeder. Not content with being Putin's poodle he has now endorsed Russia's actions in Georgia.

So Barack Hussein Obama has chosen the 65-year-old US Senator Joe Biden as his running mate - 20 years after Biden's first run for the presidency when he famously plagiarised a Neil Kinnock speech. Given that Obama has plagiarised material himself maybe this is what he feels they have in common - as well as a very liberal voting record. Biden is the Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his foreign policy ...

A new film has been released in the United States called IOUSA. It focuses on the excessive spending that is destroying the US economy. The film seeks to shock Americans into realising what needs to be done. It'll boost John McCain's chances - perhaps a similar film could be made in Britain?Here's the trailer:

At last night's History Channel debate launching its 50 Things You Need to Know About British History (chaired by TV's Iain Dale and featuring a spat between Douglas Murray and Polly Toynbee), Labour MP Diane Abbott proudly mentioned that her child had yesterday received 11 A* grades at GCSE.She failed to mention that that child had been privately educated. I wonder why?

Barack Hussein Obama - the man who transcends racial divides and unites a fractious America (if you believe the media hype) - seems not to be transcending the racial divide at all. His website lists a host of groups but seems to be omitting one for white heterosexual middle class men. I guess he doesn't want their support then, which is just as well. Despite months of fawning media coverage he's still somehow neck and ...