Two soldiers – two very different fates. Last week saw the sickening spectacle of the mainstream media fawning over Prince Harry’s Afghanistan adventure.
The Tories and Labour are outdoing each other to say who is toughest on crime
The election of Dmitri Medvedev as the new president of the Russian Federation came as no surprise. He was championed by the outgoing incumbent Vladimir Putin, and his campaign had an effective media monopoly.
Tommy Sheridan has accused Lothian and Borders police of mounting a "vendetta" against himself, his family and his political allies. It certainly seems that way.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) was thrown into crisis this week after over 100 lawyers in the Police Action Lawyers Group resigned from its advisory body.
Michael Martin, the speaker of the House of Commons, was cheered by MPs when he took his position in parliament on Monday of this week. This follows allegations about Martin’s use of expenses, including claiming £17,166 last year towards the cost of his Glasgow constituency home, even though he no longer pays a mortgage on it.
This government is capable of sending tanks to Heathrow to avert a supposed terrorist threat, but when an international criminal turns up, don’t expect the police to arrest him.
Even as Northern Rock is rescued by the state, we are repeatedly told that nationalised companies are the epitome of failure.
"It’s like going back to the 1970s," says a BBC commentator discussing the Northern Rock nationalisation, to a backdrop of pictures of militant shop stewards, rubbish piling up in the streets and people wearing flared trousers.
Foreign secretary David Miliband this week reasserted "our national interest never mind our moral impulse, in supporting movements for democracy".
Britain is one of the very few countries in the world that allows people to declare it as their place of residence whether or not they live here.
Digby Jones, the former leader of the CBI bosses' organisation and now Gordon Brown's trade minister, has attacked the government's plans for a tax crackdown on the superrich who pay no tax.
