Iconic Films

It's all about the economy, stupid

Gordon Brown has just one - big - problem: how to convince voters he's managing the financial slowdown in Britain

Mugabe's joke is no laughing matter

Thabo Mbeki is the second-most responsible man for the catastrophe that is modern Zimbabwe

Prepare for a shock BNP victory

Forget Red Ken vs Blue Blond Boris in the local elections - the real action is on the far Right

A race like a crackpot Dynasty

The contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton matches any fiction

Mind my language? I wish I had

The numbers sitting for a GCSE in a language collapsed after Government policy changes in 2004

If only Nick were more of a McClegg

Nick Clegg and his sympathisers have developed an impressive alternative definition of liberalism

Vintage nonsense from Château Darling

Alistair Darling's attack on 'middle-class wine drinkers' leaves a sour taste

Goodbye Mr Martin, your time's up

The Speaker's position is hopelessly compromised. He should go

Another country for Europe

New Europe is closer to a modern Hanseatic League than a Brussels-based formula

McCain and Petraeus: the dream ticket

The (almost certain) Republican nominee owes a huge amount to the author of the 'surge' in Iraq

Money may not buy White House keys

Barack Obama's online fundraising may purchase him more air-time. The question is: does he really want it?

Goodbye, George. Oh, back so soon?

It has been a long time since the man in the White House has cast such a small shadow

The return of the Likely Lads

Advice for Gordon Brown's two new Cabinet frontmen

It's King Rat by a whisker

Clinton and Obama should regard McCain with fear. According to his birthdate he is a Rat

The Republicans in freefall? Rubbish

The Republican Party appears in dire need of inspiration. It should acquire it from Alcides Moreno

Why Gordon may have a happier year

The Prime Minister's new year message is unnecessarily gloomy

Iraq - the best story of the year

By any measure, the American-led surge has been little short of a triumph

Why the middle class changed its vest

Whether new Labour is to suffer the same fate as the discarded string vest is the underlying question

Ideal Labour donor: Mother Teresa

The cost of politics and campaigning should – by compulsion of the law – be reduced dramatically