The economy has been big news of late - or rather the shivering, frail, wheezing husk of a thing that was once labelled an economy. Rising fuel prices, soaring energy bills, increased general cost of living ... there are more ominous stormclouds than Alabama tornado season, and right now… read more…

Well, congratulations UK, we're officially the biggest hypocrites on the planet. After years of seeking out terrorists, weapons of mass destruction, and evil regimes, it turns out that the UK is actually the world's biggest exporter of arms. According to UK Trade and Investment (UKTI), UK arms dealers added £9.7… read more…

Oil has found itself to be even more newsworthy than usual today, what with the teamsters on strike and Gordon Brown planning to take an expensive sojourn down to Jeddah in an attempt to try and pull a few strings with Saudi oil chiefs. Whether or not he'll achieve anything… read more…

Rising food and oil prices are about to send the UK standard of living down to an abject level of depravity not last seen since the oil crisis of the 1970s and 1980s. Economists ( A.K.A the nerdy kids from high school who have managed to acquire an unsportsmanlike hubris… read more…

A new poll conducted by the BBC has suggested that up to 70% of UK residents consider themselves to be 'happy' with the police. Conducted by Radio 5 Live, the research discovered that the majority of people thought the police were doing a good job, and that 60% felt that… read more…

When children of the future look back upon the last decade or so they will do so with ugly (but futuristic) grimaces and cringes from here to yaya. And it won't be just because the times in which we live are to be defined by the throngs of morons getting… read more…

Gordon Brown's announcement that high oil prices are here to stay must have made at least one or two of the nation's lorry drivers wish that they hadn't wasted so much fuel driving to London yesterday. After speaking with oil chiefs this morning the Prime Minister said that though he… read more…

Despite earlier reports that he might be going somewhere, Gordon Brown has managed to instill a sense of fear and confusion into the minds of the masses by revealing that he is planning something called a 'two-year fight back campaign'. The long and short of it will be that he… read more…

Ah, another day, another Orwellian analogy to be made. This time it comes after the BBC reveals that the government is considering plans to maintain a national database of every phone call and e-mail sent in the UK. Big Brother is watching you? See you in room 101? How'd you… read more…

Will Gordon Brown still be the leader of the Labour party when the next General Election comes round? That's the question on the wrinkled lips of most well-informed MPs today, especially some outspoken young whippersnapper named Frank Fields. We have to admit that our political musings have taken us down… read more…