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The dark side of the dirty Putin regime has raised its ugly - and anti-Semitic - head again after one of Putin's aides attack the family of British Foreign Secretary David Miliband. David Miliband's grandfather was a Polish Jew. You know a government is corrupt when it starts resorting to...

London is the new Venice London matches the glory of Venice in its prime Ross Clark The Spectator City of London's Coat of Arms When Tony Blair secured the agreement of the Scots and — only just — the Welsh for devolution in the referendums of 1998, it was supposed to herald a great...

Former England manager Sven Goran Eriksson is delighted as his new team Manchester City beat West Ham on the opening day of the new season Former England manager Sven Goran Eriksson tasted victory in his first Premier League game as the new manager of Manchester City with a win over West Ham...

With the Daily Mail's Robery Hardman joining The Great War Display Team in Northamptonshire, the only one of its kind in Europe, which uses replica WWI biplanes and triplanes to reproduce the aerial dogfights of that war, why are the British obsessed with historical re-enactments? Today and...

The Daily Mail's Robert Hardman takes to the skies in a WWI biplane.... How I shot down the Red Baron - Robert Hardman takes to the skies by ROBERT HARDMAN 11th August 2007 Daily Mail Red Baron? Green Baron, more like. How on earth did Manfred von Richthofen, the greatest fighter...

Human rights 'not issue for UK Olympians' By Richard Spencer in Beijing 11/08/2007 The Telegraph Simon Clegg, the British Olympic Association chief executive, says the organisation is apolitical Britain's Olympic team will resist any attempt to boycott or join in political...

Britain 'sold down the river': what life under the EU treaty could be by ANDREW ROBERTS 11th August 2007 Daily Mail Gordon Brown is facing increasing pressure to honour Labour's election manifesto pledge to hold a referendum on the 'new' EU Treaty - which bears an overwhelming resemblance to...

Something For The Weekend this week interviews a band from Sheffield, South Yorkshire with "Monkey" in their name.....but they are NOT Arctic Monkeys. SFTW speaks to Monkey Swallows the Universe who are set to release the album "Casket Letters", a title derived from the eight love letters that...

The extraordinary moment a herd of buffalo fought back against a pack of lions... and a crocodile 10th August 2007 Daily Mail An amateur video shot on safari in South Africa has become a phenomenon on YouTube. Almost 10 million people have watched the footage - dubbed the Battle at...

Why James Bond does the best baddies by ANTHONY HOROWITZ (about to release his seventh Alex Rider novel) 10th August 2007 Daily Mail What are we to make of David Scaramanga, the 28-year-old owner of a Bath taxi company who claims that his grandfather, George Ambrose Scaramanga, was the...

Richard Littlejohn on why five potential Islamic terrorists should be left to rot in Guantanamo rather than be granted asylum in Britain when they aren't even British citizens, and why China's Terracotta Army, currently visiting Politically Correct Britain, is bound to be granted asylum, due to...

Op ... Howard wants to be a girl Builder loses nuts and bolts By JAMIE PYATT August 09, 2007 BUILDING boss Howard Shelley carried out the ultimate DIY conversion — by CASTRATING himself so he could become a woman. The 42-year-old dad of two decided on the drastic move after...

If anyone is looking for a penpal, then why not write to a British soldier stationed in Iraq? The address is given. Iraq soldiers look for penpals... maybe more By Caroline Davies 09/08/2007 The Telegraph For the soldier out in Iraq, the path to true love is littered with obstacles...

In early 21st Century, politically-correct Britain, only foreign murderers, rapists and terrorists - such as those non-British Guantanamo detainees that the British Government is trying to pressure America into releasing and then allowing them to live in Britain - should be granted asylum in...

'My grandad was basis for evil Bond villain Scaramanga' Scaramanga named after 007 author's school rival By LUKE SALKELD 8th August 2007 Daily Mail He was the ultimate Bond villain with a name to match. Francisco 'Pistols' Scaramanga was the suave, sophisticated assassin determined...

New Zealand has been gripped by alleged sightings of Lord Lucan, the British aristocrat whose fate remains unknown after he vanished in 1974.... New Zealand gripped by bizarre new 'sighting' of Lord Lucan 9th August 2007 Daily Mail New Zealand has been gripped by a bizarre claim that a...

Considering that they are being held in Britain, the 2012 London Olympics are surely going to be the most politically correct Games of all time. For satire, the Spectator's Rod Liddle writes this article as though he is a politically correct maniac.... It's the PC Olympics I don’t mean to...

Political correctness, "Green" councils, "diversity", health and safety.....a parody of life in today's Britain by Richard Littlejohn Roll up for the Much Culling in the Marsh summer show! 7th August 2007 Richard Littlejohn How long before the Government decides that the foot and mouth...

Police accuse Channel 4 of distorting film on radical Muslim preachers 8th August 2007 Daily Mail A police force has made a formal complaint to Ofcom about the editing of a Channel 4 programme, Undercover Mosque, after unsuccessfully trying to prosecute for stirring up racial hatred...

Here's how the front page of the Daily Mail may have looked in the 1600s as it reported on major invents in England that occurred in that century if it was done in a similar style to today.... Hold Ye Front Page! (Or how the Mail would have reported 17th Century events) 7th August 2007...