Can you imagine Guido in the dock charged with "insulting Britishness" over his wickedly composed plots, rumours and conspiracy? I know the pen is mightier than the sword, but it is incredible that the fictitious characters in a Turkish novel have landed one of the...

While the world's eyes are glued on Thailand's dramatic coup and Hungary's lying Prime Minister, I shall also be thinking of the 9 million voters in Yemen today at their first seriously contested presidential election. To set the scene, more than 90,000 police and...

The extraordinary repeated lies of the Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany have led to violent scenes and clashes. Is this Hungary's second Uprising? Thousands of protesters have clashed with police and stormed the headquarters of Hungary's state television,...

A top hospital consultant Barry Monk is to stand as a parliamentary candidate in the next General Election to fight for a decent NHS in this country. His skills should be focused on caring for patients, not battling with an uncaring Government. Yet he feels he has no...

I wonder if police will be monitoring schools today to boost their coffers by booking law-breaking parents. I wonder how many hours of paper work this will involve. I would far rather they spent their time nabbing motorists, particularly lorry drivers, who still drive...

Anyone who has seen the film Hotel Rwanda, will remember how those most shocking and unbelievable atrocities were ignored by the rest of the world, particularly the US, who reckoned it was not their problem. They cannot blame ignorance any longer, nobody can. We...