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Floreant Dicta: Why DO these gloriously untrendy slogans still cast such a spell? 29th June 2007 Daily Mail QUENTIN LETTS Former pupils of Kirkcaldy High School may have felt a prickling of their neck hairs on Wednesday when their fellow alumnus Gordon Brown made his first speech as...

It's just the third day into Gordon Brown's reign as Prime Minister and London is on high alert from terrorism. A car was found driving erratically on Haymarket near Piccadilly Circus in Central London. A man got out and ran off. Luckily no explosion occured. The car has been taken away for...

American power Still No.1 Jun 28th 2007 From The Economist print edition Wounded, tetchy and less effective than it should be, America is still the power that counts EVEN the greatest empires hurt when they lose wars. It is not surprising then that Iraq weighs so heavily on the...

The long-nosed Diana, by Belgium 28th June 2007 Daily Mail Belgium has issued a gold coin to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the death of Princess Diana. But on inspection the portrait of Diana inscribed on the coin actually looks a lot more like her son, Prince Harry. Perhaps...

Bargain ... the Royals cost less than two first class stamps a year Royals cost Brits 62p each year By SEBASTIAN LANDER June 28, 2007 The Sun THE Queen and the Royal Family cost the taxpayer 62p per person per year - less than the price of two first class stamps. Buckingham...

The Spice Girls back today! Together again ... Victoria Beckham, Mel C, Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton and Mel B June 28, 2007 The Sun THE SPICE GIRLS all lined-up together as a five-piece for the first time in nine years today as they announced their comeback plans. The group will...

After Blair Will the special relationship survive? National Review By Nile Gardiner June 27, 2007 Far from being America's "poodle", Britain is very important for the United States Tony Blair’s departure from Downing Street potentially marks the end of an era in U.S.-British...

Urban population to exceed 50 per cent By Charles Clover, Environment Editor L27/06/2007 The Telegraph The world crosses a threshold next year when more than half of its population, some 3.3 billion people, will live in urban areas for the first time, a UN report has said. Over the...

First female Home Secretary as Brown wields axe in radical reshuffle 28th June 2007 Daily Mail Chancellor of the Exchequer: Alistair Darling HOW SOME OF GORDON BROWN'S NEW CABINET LOOKS IN ALISTAIR DARLING New post:Chancellor The former Trade Secretary, a close ally of Mr...

The Mummy Returns: archaeologists discover remains of Egypt's first female pharaoh By FIONA MacRAE 27th June 2007 Daily Mail The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Sphynx, two of the great historical treasures in this very ancient country (founded 3150 BC) which has a population of 78 million...

Gordon Brown is new British Prime Minister By George Jones, Political Editor, and Matthew Moore 27/06/2007 The Telegraph 360 degree view of the Blairs leaving Downing Street - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ETHtml/content/promotions/podcast/360_blair02.jhtml Grumpy Gordon is Britain's 52nd...

Blair signed off 10 years and 55 days in power as British Prime Minister by giving a speech to the House of Commons, which ended with the words, "And that is that, the end." He then took his seat, looking very emotional, as the whole house rose to their feet to give him a standing ovation. He...

Historic day as Blair surrenders power and Brown finally moves into No 10 27th June 2007 Daily Mail Gordon Brown today becomes Great Britain's 52nd Prime Minister Stepping down: Tony Blair Tony Blair surrendered on his own terms today as Gordon Brown ushered in a new radical era of...

THE TRUE POTENTIAL OF MONARCHY It's great having a constitutional monarchy A letter written to the Daily Mail newspaper by a Brit living in the United States, describing how he thinks having a monarchy is preferable to having a republic: "As an expat, I find it distressing to read that...

Tony Blair will today go to Buckingham Palace to tell Queen Elizabeth II that he is stepping down as her Prime Minister. Then will go Gordon Brown and she will make him the next Prime Minister. Constitutionally, the monarch can invite whoever she pleases to be Prime Minister. However...

GRISLY LONDON HISTORY Everyone has heard the horror stories of botched executions with victims running screaming around the scaffold etc. The story of Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, is one of the authentic examples of such horror. Her only crime was that she was the mother of a Cardinal...

Somme survivor's diary emerges after 91 years By CHRIS BROOKE 25th June 2007 Sgt Hubert Harding's diaries start in April 1915 He witnessed, and astonishingly survived, the bloodiest battles of the Great War. After a long day risking life and limb to tend wounded comrades, Hubert...

A new video shows BBC reporter Alan Johnston wearing an explosives belt and it was released by his captors, the Palestinian militant group Army of Islam. What makes it embarrassing for the Left-wing BBC is that the BBC usually sides with the Paleosimians and is anti-Israeli. But how do they...

Gardener digs up veggie patch to find WW2 bunker 26th June 2007 Daily Mail A home gardener was stunned when he dug up his vegetable patch - and found an enormous secret room underneath! Andy Lewis, 36, and partner Fiona Marks, 27, were clearing a section of their garden when they...

Schoolboy skewered to death by mob 'baying for blood' 25th June 2007 Daily Mail A boy of 16 was killed in a mob attack involving more than 40 teenagers who were "baying for blood" - after he was turned away from a schoolgirl's house party in South London Ben Hitchcock: victim of gang...