When the dust settles in Damascus, the country will have been torn apart and, as in Yugoslavia, the process will be irreversible

From the Occupy movement to George Galloway and Julian Assange, misogyny is still a disturbing feature of radical left-wing politics

With heroin addicts, doctors focus on harm reduction—why don't they do the same with smokers?

A tax windfall from fracking in the North East would merely delay the inevitable day of reckoning for a bloated public sector