Sometimes I really think that this world needs to be stopped immediately, so that I and the rest of the people blessed with brains and the ability to use them, could just step off. The fact that British soldiers are going to march in Moscow at the 9th May parade, under portraits of the mass murderer of millions and in the capital of the country that was Adolf Hitler’s staunch ally, is really something beyond …

Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged Britons to donate to an emergency appeal for Haiti after the Government pledged more than £6 million in aid, ITN reports.
Brown called for the whole world to respond as the first UK search teams arrived in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
“The problem at the moment is that there are still many, many people who are trapped or buried under rubble, and we do not know the full scale of that catastrophe,” Brown …

According to a recent poll, the support for Labour has slumped two points since early December to 28% – the lowest level since last September, the Conservatives have gained three points to 41%, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The Lib Dems are down one point on 19%.
However, despite claims that Prime Minister Gordon Brown was presiding over a “dysfunctional” shambles following last week’s putsch attempt, voters still believe he is the best person to lead the Labour …

Who says that Gordon Brown isn’t funny was proven wrong as the Prime Minister made quite a joke yesterday when he said that he’ll use the “hard won economic recovery” as a platform for Labour election victory.
According to the Daily Telegraph, Brown said that the looming election will be unlike the last three because the recession has “changed things”. The priorities in those elections had been about “investment in schools and hospitals” based on economic …

Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered a blow today when two opinion polls showed an increased Tory lead, the Guardian reports.
A YouGov poll showed the Tory lead had increased by three points and they are now on 42%, while support for Labour is down 1% to 30% and the Lib Dems are also down one point, to 16%.
A separate ComRes poll suggested that 60% of voters saw Labour as the most divided of the main parties. …

Conservative leader David Cameron and his Liberal Democrat counterpart Nick Clegg demanded immediate General Election to be called after yesterday’s coup attempt by former ministers against Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Both Cameron and Clegg said that Labour was no longer fit to govern. “If ever there was a time when our country needed strong leadership and a united Government, it’s today,” Cameron said, according to the Guardian.

Cabinet ministers backed Prime Minister Gordon Brown after two senior MPs called for a secret vote on his leadership of the Labour Party, Sky News reports.
Former ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt wrote to all Labour MPs asking them to support a ballot on Brown’s leadership.
But Business Secretary, Lord Peter Mandelson, who is widely credited with saving Brown’s…

Two former Cabinet ministers, Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt, launched today a last-ditch attempted putsch against Prime Minister Gordon Brown, The Times reports.
Hoon and Hewitt wrote to all Labour MPs calling for the leadership issue to be sorted out “once and for all”.
The timing – just before the first Prime Minister’s Questions – was intended to be devastating.
The move by two senior figures who have so far avoided raising the leadership question is bound to …

Prime Minister Gordon Brown will promise today in his New Year message that the year 2010 will herald a decade a prosperity and ambition for the British public, and he will also attack those “who say we must plan for a decade of austerity and unfairness where the majority lose out while the privileged few protect themselves”.
In an upbeat assessment of the economic prospects for the coming year, Brown will reject Conservative warnings of a “decade …

In recent weeks I asked the readers of The Empire Chronicles whether they believe in human-induced global warming, and I must say, the result wasn’t surprising at all: a mighty 97% of the respondents said a firm “no”.
Altogether, 1,452 people responded to the poll and 1,404 of them voted “no”.
Only three per cent – 48 people – voted “yes”.
It’s great to see that common sense is prevailing. But considering most of the respondents were from …

The Tories have called on Labour to do more to help firms through the recession after figures obtained by the party show almost 27,000 have gone bust since last year, Sky News reports.
Data from the Insolvency Service reveals 17,500 more companies have been made bankrupt in the current economic crisis than during the 1980s’ recession, and 3,000 more than in the 1990s.
“Despite Alistair Darling’s attempt to cover up the truth, this confirms what many people …

Prime Minister Gordon Brown will be questioned by the official inquiry into the war in Iraq, but not until after the General Election, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The plan to summon Brown to give evidence was revealed in a statement from the inquiry team working for Sir John Chilcot. The statement listed witnesses who will be called to give evidence to the inquiry next year, who include former Prime Minister Tony Blair and his former spokesman …

History will be made in the run up to next year’s General Election when the party leaders take part in a series of television debates, the Daily Telegraph reports.
A deal has been done between news broadcasters and the main political parties. It will be the first time that British party leaders have gone head-to-head in a live television battle similar to those in American presidential elections.

Prince Charles and Prime Minister Gordon Brown were accused last night of “green hypocrisy” after jetting into Copenhagen to lecture the world about “global warming” in two separate private airplanes.
Charles used the £1,019-an-hour Queen’s Flight so he could deliver a keynote speech to the climate change conference, flying back after less than three hours.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown decorated a toilet in his constituency home and former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith bought an insanely expensive TV on taxpayers’ expense.
Brown claimed £2,713 expenses to decorate a downstairs toilet in his constituency home in North Queensferry, Scotland, the Daily Mail reports.
Smith, who was forced to step down as Home Secretary after her husband paid for pornography on expenses, received payments for a £555.74 television, a £244.90 DVD player and £611 for …

British taxpayers will have to fork out at least £1 billion a year to help poor countries cope with “global warming”, under an international deal being backed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the Daily Mail reports.
The cash – raised from a slew of new taxes and higher fuel bills – will also help developing countries in Asia, South America and Africa build wind farms and solar power plants.
The fund is a key part of this …