Last night Japan’s ruling party lost control of the Diet by a 3:1 margin.  Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown escaped the UK and spent the weekend in Afghanistan. Is this where we are? The PM must go to a war zone to get some peace? As Japan goes, so goes Labour in 2010?
Mr. Brown has [...]

By Denis Campbell
Has there been enough time and clinical testing to ensure the H1N1 Swine flu vaccine is safe? When my doctor told me his colleague would likely not give the new HN1N Swine flu vaccine to her own daughter I became intrigued then alarmed.
Later that morning I saw an NBC news report (the 1st [...]

Driving merrily along the M8 in Scotland. I swerve around a large piece of wooden debris at 70 mph straddling the right and middle lanes. Checking the rearview mirror I see others doing the same. Thinking quickly, I toss the mobile phone to my wife and tell her to dials 999 (the UK’s 911)
Her end [...]

By Denis Campbell
It was a Page 11 story. STILL racially segregated proms  exist in the deep USA South. It barely rated a whisper. Perez Hilton getting punched by the Black Eyed Peas manager and the crisis in Iran led the news. All sides said in Georgia said the prom situation was “normal because their parents [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
Talking heads are having a field day over recent Cabinet resignations, prospects for yet another huge Labour loss this weekend in the EU elections and calls by many in Parliament (even some Labour back-benchers) for a no-confidence vote and immediate elections. You have to wonder if the Prime Minister relishes getting out of [...]

Many will deride your selection as ‘old politics as usual’ but from this chair you bring more straight talk than McCain now seems capable of doing as well as balance, compassion, every day common sense and gravitas to the ticket. You also can be a pit bull when needed capable of gnawing a leg or [...]

It begins with one whose ambition gets ahead of him or herself. Like the proverbial drip, drip, drip of the tiniest hole in the dyke, Labour front bench cabinet ministers sat silently for the first few moments of Gordon Brown’s holiday and then one-by-one began to stick toes or more in to test the waters [...]

Charles, Prince of Wales, heir to the monarchy and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall spent the night recently in a sumptuous Western Wales Bed and Breakfast Inn situated on an old estate in the village of Myddfai, near Llandovery (you’re on your own for pronunciation, this language desperately needs vowels). That would normally be [...]

. . . began the comment from a graduate of Oxford University. I gave him the chance to correct his post. Today’s feed from The Telegraph though held little surprise… “more than half of 200 respondents to a survey by the Association of Graduate Recruiters expressed concern about the lack of graduate’s writing skills, while [...]

About two months ago I wrote an article for the Welsh national newspaper asking CEO Ben Verwaayen about the horrifically bad service BT provides. Now it seems they and the industry are in a spot of trouble for the 0870 number scheme where you pay between .10 and .50 pence per minute for YOU to call [...]