Tony Blair has defended Gordon Brown's perceived ineptitude by stating that we were living in a 'tough time' for all world leaders in which members of the public were seeking domestic solutions to global problems, such as rising fuel and food prices. "The problems of many political leaders are driven… read more…

Well, our quest to determine the psychological make-up of Westmonster readers via the medium of 'polling' continues apace. Don't worry, though - we're not going to sell the results to a bunch of massive privacy-invading global corporations. Oh, okay ... maybe one or two massive privacy-invading global corporations. But… 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…

The G8 committee has revealed new plans to halve global emissions by 2050. BBC. David Miliband has denied reports that he wants to take Gordon Brown's job away from him. The Guardian. Boris Johnson has scrapped a controversial deal with Venezuela that was designed to fund cheap transport for Londoners.… read more…

We've all had to have that awkward conversation with the bank manager sometimes. You know the sort - he shuffles his papers, looks at you from over his spectacles and asks you if it's really necessary to extend your overdraft so that you can take a course of helicopter-flying… read more…

Anyone keeping an eye on the financial news will be aware that - in the wake of the ever-increasing grip of the Credit Crunch - the International Monetary Fund has sheepishly admitted that they should maybe have paid heed to the warning signs a tiny bit earlier. The Conservatives,… read more…

Now that the Credit Crunch is officially asserting its presence, it's highly likely that every single one of you reading this will end the year jobless, homeless, riddled with disease and surviving solely by drinking collected acidic rainwater from a discarded can of Dr. Pepper. Which ironically will taste… read more…