But if Americans believe responsibility for their national ills can all be laid at the door of their President, they are deluding themselves. There have indeed been mistakes from the Obama White House, mainly over the economy. Mr Obama's gravest erro...

We do not yet know the full story. The Prime Minister, David Cameron, has suggested that the explosive devices – which were concealed in printer cartridges – were intended to bring down the planes on which they were found, possibly over the UK. But t...

This resulted in an inevitable pushing up of property prices throughout the United Kingdom, creating a property “boom” market that was only sustainable because desperate first-time buyers were offered mortgages of 125 per cent upwards on a property’s...

Thankfully, Brooke Kinsella, the former EastEnders actress whose 16-year-old brother was a high-profile victim of knife crime and who was appointed an adviser to the Coalition on the subject, is pushing a more thoughtful approach. After spending the ...

Mary Ann Sieghart's persuasive argument under the headline: "Restore sanity in the debate on drugs" (1 November) is unlikely to cut much ice with the British government. Nor, I fear, will the article in The Lancet co-authored by former chief advise...

Voters are on the verge of building in yet another check on Tuesday. Unless virtually every poll and pundit is wrong, the Republicans will score a substantial victory over President Obama's Democrats. The Grand Old Party (GOP) is expected to take the...

It's such a hard stretch of water that changes from one day to the next. When I was 15 I lived in Blackpool and we were travelling up and down to Dover all the time before we made the first attempt. Even then I was given a 50-50 chance. The tide chan...

It held unanimously that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office had not unlawfully discriminated against senior diplomat Jane Cordell by refusing to post her to Kazakhstan because the ‘reasonable adjustments’ required to make her posting work – Jane is ...

As an outer garment which should, by definition, garment your outer, how can it be fit for purpose when so much of it is absent? Would you buy socks without heels? Bras without cups? Have you ever seen a feature on "six ways to wear crotch-free trous...

Governments should ban materials such as BPA when there is a weight of evidence indicating they are hazardous to health. In cases where there is uncertainty, governments should at least highlight which chemicals are causing concern and make the publi...