A breakdown of the 2010-11 figures shows where that concern could most usefully be directed. Deaths among drivers and passengers were up 6 per cent, with rural roads accounting for more of the rise than urban areas, and a disproportionate number of f...

At which point, those of us who are, at best, equivocal about the arrival of the world's biggest corporate sporting circus in town would do well to keep schtum. However, there's still time for me to draw your attention to a largely unreported aspect ...

In the years since his resignation as prime minister, Blair has been wining and dining as our Middle East Envoy. This title implies that somebody with authority had the good idea of sending him out of the country.It seems that Blair now desires to re...

The rise of the "professional politician" is an ongoing storm in a hand-painted teacup that spills over every so often, mainly when we feel those representing us in Westminster have lost touch with reality. Those who move upward from the bowels of po...

In these anxious times, international solidarity only goes so far. There is political capital to be made by exploiting knee-jerk hostility towards immigrants, and as the world's greatest athletes and their supporters arrive on British soil, preparati...

Within hours of the blast that killed the Defence Minister, a general and the President's brother-in-law, Syria's Information Minister was on television to denounce the "terrorists". But the more he blustered about the malign hand of foreign intellig...

I'm part of the problem, not the solution. Some of the 150 billion messages sent last year were from me: a brief scroll through my BlackBerry reveals such classics as "chicken or tuna?" and "come home NOW".What that shows, of course, is that a text m...

As regards the extraordinary case of the "Berlin patient" – a man whose HIV infection was mysteriously eradicated by a bone marrow transplant used to treat blood cancer – there is no less need for caution. Exactly why he shook off the disease is unce...