WOMEN, we have been failed by history. The wonders of Victorian engineering clearly included big bras, but we were never told.

STRUAN STEVENSON MEP, Vice-president of the EPP-ED group in the European Parliament

I LIKE cars. Quite a lot, in fact. Miss my weekly dose of Top Gear and I'm like a grizzly with a mouthful of rotting molars.

ALL governments make policy announcements to suit their own agenda. So it is pointless to be surprised at Alistair Darling for announcing - a week before the strategic Glasgow

IMAGINE we are back in 1984, but in a parallel universe. Mrs Thatcher is still Prime Minister and facing the miners' strike led by Arthur Scargill. She decides to take ac

A study of the PM's politics since the 1970s suggest he is far from the radical his image might suggest, says GERRY HASSAN

Was scrapping fuel duty rise a cynical ploy ahead of Glasgow East election?

The manager of the Fife Safety Camera Partnership, which runs the region's speed cameras, considers what the future holds for the machines.

SCRUTINEER

REACTION to the government's white paper Framework for a Fair Future has been swift and divided.

While it is good to see Esperanto getting publicity, your report and leader (15 July) contained some errors. The language was invented (by Ludovic, not "Lodovi

No surprise here: President Bush has asserted executive privilege to prevent Attorney General Michael Mukasey from having to comply with a House panel subpoena for material on the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. A House committee chairman, meanwhile,

Oh dear. Someone had better tell the conservatives of the GOP base, who don't quite trust John McCain anyway, that he has changed his tune from the other day and now apparently favors adoptions by gay couples. "Sen. McCain's expressed

In a new survey, Health Care and the Economy in Two Swing States: A Look at Ohio and Florida, National Public Radio, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health found that the economy, health

At one point, the GOP was bursting with enthusiasm about gaining back their long-lost and well-deserved House majority, and high on their target list for this goal were seats like North Carolina's Republican-leaning 11th District, now represented by freshman Democrat

Via Atrios: Out of all the people to try to honor in an Act dedicated to fighting AIDS, Elizabeth Dole spits in the face of LGBTs by proposing the now-dead Jesse Helms be added to the "Tom Lantos and Henry

Your one stop pundit shop. Ruth Marcus discusses the scandal that the rest of the media is ignoring. Which scandal would that be, you ask? The one where Bush "Pioneer" Stephen Payne is caught on tape trying to sell access

Courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: FLOOR SCHEDULE FOR WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 2008 House meets at 10:00 a.m.: Legislative Business Fifteen "One Minutes" Per Side Last vote predicted: 7:00 p.m. H.R. 5959 - FY09 Intelligence Authorization Act (Rep.

Never have so many people paid so dear a price for an opportunity so squandered: Imagine, for a moment, what we could have done in those days, and months, and years after 9/11. ... We could have invested hundreds of

James at Swing State Project looks at the second quarter fundraising reports from various congressional candidates.Kit Bond (R-MO) joins the long line of Republicans who are lying about oil spills during Hurricane Katrina.Thank you: Can I just note that I