I arrived in Evansville, Indiana on Tuesday afternoon, grabbed a rental car and headed for the local Barnes & Noble, which kindly loaned us the remaindered books we need ...

As MSPs return to Holyrood after what's effectively their last chance to get a decent break before the elections next May, I thought it might be a good time to ...

The Institute of Fiscal Studies has come out and said that the measures in the Coalition Budget passed in June would hit the poorest hardest and are regressive. This is ...

In my opinion, the Tax Credit Office is second only to the Home Office in the running for worst Government agency. Both organisations cause unnecessary misery to too many people.This ...

Today's unemployment figures continue to make depressing reading for those of us living in Scotland.  It's worrying to see the trend of the last year or so continuing with Scotland's ...

Today is my birthday. I should be tucked up in my bed having a long lie being fed Earl Grey and chocolate and having my every whim attended to by ...

As part of my end of term nostalgia, I've been looking back at the last year on this blog, a year that's covered an election and its long build up, ...

This is just a PSA to say that Nick is doing Deputy Prime Minister's Questions in around half an hour.The first session was an hour before the Budget and I ...

Yesterday, as he has done since his election as leader in 2007, Nick Clegg faced a baying Labour crowd across the Commons at Prime Minister's Questions. The only difference was ...

Chris Hollins and Ola Jordan pose with the glitterball trophy after being crowned the 2009 winners of Strictly Come Dancing Interesting news coming from The Mirror newspaper today: Strictly Come Dancing ...

The Owensboro Kentucky Messenger Inquirer had a story on July 4 about the short film I'll be directing there over three days in September.The film is based on my ...

One of the biggest surprises about this month was that the high I'd reached in May was almost maintained, with only 114 fewer absolute unique visitors despite 13 fewer posts ...

For the avoidance of doubt - this contains mega spoilers, so go no further if you don't want to know....."Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue"A simple saying, a ...

I don't want you to think that I've spent the last week glued to the Budget debate in the House of Commons, but I thought I'd share with you another ...

As I've written before,I can see the fairness the Liberal Democrats have added to the Budget - a rise in the personal tax allowance and Capital Gains Tax, the restoration ...

Sorry for neglecting you over the past few days - and blogging will be a bit light today as it's Bob's birthday and he has half the day off. ...

Before I even say anything about the Budget, I have to say a huge thank you to the lovely elephant, whose well-timed publication of his review of last Saturday's Doctor ...

I still haven't had time to go through everything three times like Conrad Russell always advised, but I thought I would let you have a look at Nick's e-mail to ...

The unavoidable budget, says Osborne"I am not going to hide hard truths from the British people.""Everyone will share in rewards when we succeed - we really are all in this ...

I really wasn't looking forward to tomorrow's budget anyway. If you can find one person in the country who is, I'd be very surprised.Actually, though, I expect Labour are rubbing ...