Japan, given its history, had every reason to be among the most circumspect countries in developing and harnessing nuclear power. Its geography argued for double, treble, the precautions that might be taken anywhere else. And until last week, the saf...

If true, Mr Watson's allegations would explode the argument from News International's management that illegal data acquisition was confined to just one "rogue" reporter at the News of the World. And that newspaper's employment of Rees makes it clear ...

In the event, though, Mr Clegg pulled off a trick similar to the one he had managed at his party conference last autumn. Given the choice between being in government or out, the party has become rather partial to its modest slice of power. As in Sept...

Yet it isn't the price that has caused a fuss, but rather the fact that the work turns out to be 31 per cent owned by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Now Wylde is suing New York's Gagosian Gallery, which sold him the work, claiming that they n...

But if I had to name a group who I think have an objectively responsible attitude to booze, then Alcohol Concern, the British Medical Association and the British Liver Trust would probably be right up there. After all, if you name your organisation a...

Its request for the UN Security Council to impose a no-fly zone over Libya may come too little, too late for the Libyan rebels whose military weakness has been underlined in the past few days by defeats in the east and west of the country. For the fi...

Do we allow any other body part to behave like teeth? Do we? First, teeth erupt painfully through skin causing fretfulness in poor babies who are really cute and may have dimpled knuckles and have never done any harm to anyone. Legs don't do that. I ...