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The staggering cost of following your team was laid bare thirecently as BBC Sport published their annual ‘Price of Football’ survey. It looked at 166 clubs across the country and, for the first time, included the English Women’s Superleague. The survey gives a variety of figures, including the cheapest and most expensive season tickets, match day tickets, the cost of confectionary and a ‘cheapest day out’ figure, which adds the price of a club’s cheapest...

David Cameron was on the Letterman show last night. Letterman tried to trip him up with a quick quiz about Britain. Here are the questions and the answers. See if you can do better than David Cameron. By my reckoning he got 3.5 out of 6.   Questions Who wrote ‘Rule Britannia!’? How many people (roughly) live in the UK? When was Magna Carta published? Where was Magna Carta signed? Where does Magna Carta, in its original form, reside? What

They lack confidence about the top of their ticket. Or more accurately they know the public find confidence hard to come by. Hence all the RNC 'talking heads' telling us the election is a referendum on Obama; intrinsically a negative but more tellingly an under confident attack. They are tied to the US referendum rhetoric because the GOP don't have the self-belief to frame the contest as a choice between their guy and the other guy. They will travel lightly. The Convention was policy light,...

Should disagreement between parties prevent their activists from uniting to campaign for a common cause? JIM MURPHY doesn’t think so   This weekend I’ll do something I’ve never done before. That makes it sound like I might be going sky-diving or white water rafting but no it’s something more unlikely and, for a Labour MP, potentially more dangerous: I’m going to go campaigning. And the Tories will be there on the same side. It’s all part of the...

Yesterday the UK Government confirmed that the contracts for the Type 26 will be granted in the middle of the decade, after the referendum on independence.  I often have worried about the Tory Government’s industrial strategy, but today it’s the SNP that poses a greater threat to Scotland's naval shipbuilding.    Back in 2006, The First Minister said: “Scotland can change to a better future and be part of northern Europe’s arc of prosperity. We have