The Paris summit revealed just how much the Prime Minister has recently gained in stature from the disasters buffeting the British, European and world economies. The broadly sensible bailout of Britain's banks has been contrasted favourably with Geor...

But as one threat to our liberty evaporates, others grow. Last week, it was revealed that the Government's DNA database had exploded in size: it now contains the details of 4.4 million arrested – and wrongly arrested – citizens. On the same day, anot...

For Lenin in 1917 it was the international bourgeoisie – and of course, the iron law of history – that was responsible for the collapse of the Russian state. For America after 1929, it was the Wall Street bankers who were the guilty parties. For Hitl...

The reality is that genetically modified crops are already helping over 12 million farmers around the world by delivering more consistent yields of higher quality crops. The vast majority of these farmers are resource-poor growers with small plots of...

Sometimes this turned up in novels – Margaret Drabble's early fiction, for example, is full of bright young women more or less apologising for their high IQs – but it was most marked in the press: in Lord – as he now is – Hattersley's bracing homilie...

Here are the problems we face and the steps we are taking: First, key markets are not functioning because there is a lack of liquidity. So the Federal Reserve has injected hundreds of billions of dollars into the system. The Fed has joined with centr...