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The Irish Republic declared independence from the UK in 1919, and the Anglo-Irish Treaty making them the Irish Free State was signed in 192...

Almost un-noticed came the announcement from the Bank of England that long-term savings had dropped by £23 billion in the year to October 2...

I'm astonished that David Cameron hasn't resigned. Consider what happened. He dramatically and portentiously recalled Parliamen...

The image above comes from the ONS Census Animation of the last 100 years. (Click to enlarge the image and see detail). See that huge ...

One of the most disturbing things about watching dictators is the way they force the people they've hurt to show "respect" to...

So - Labour actually pulled it off. A bold decision to back the Tory MP Mark Reckless' amendment calling for a cut in the EU budget actu...

It's well known that Britain is divided into two separate tribes who find each other incomprehensible. You have the Tory tribe which is ...

I've been meaning to write about Blair ever since his interesting interview by Andrew Marr on Sunday where he said, “I have always said...

It was nice to win 800+ seats, and not just hold off the SNP in Scotland, but win a string of wards in the south, taking Southampton, Norwic...

... according to YouGov . Blair didn't reach that negative rating till late 2006, nine and a half years after he got elected, and well a...

In the political sections of the press it's wall-to-wall articles and editorials about how Ed Miliband needs to be toppled from the Labo...

The British papers are understandably obsessed with Cameron's EU veto, with the right-wing press thrilled, the LibDem press (BBC, Guardi...

There is shock across the eurozone because George Papandreou has decided to call a referendum over the bailout that was cobbled together a f...

An apt pair of comments from the Telegraph that I thought deserved a wider audience: Question : 6 months for stealing £3.50 worth of b...