William Dove

If Corbyn's views are so unacceptable, why has he felt at home in the Labour party for decades?

When I saw our former Prime Minister Gordon Brown had said Britain outside the EU would be like North Korea, I felt sorry for the poor man.

The greatest achievement of the last Labour government was arguably the role it played in turning Britain into a more tolerant place for minorities. Yet the latest plan by Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt to "eradicate homophobic bullying" is lazy and wrong in its thinking.

A Tolkien fan gives his review of The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies

The Scottish political class appears to believe in the old stereotype of Scots being tight-fisted misers.

It's the 60th anniversary of the publication of The Fellowship of the Ring, part one of JRR Tolkien's masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings.

The Office of Tony Blair has responded to a call for him to be sacked as Middle East peace envoy by claiming that it has been made by "an alliance of hard right and hard left views". Given that Ken Livingstone and George Galloway are amongst those demanding his head it is neither surprising nor unfair of Mr Blair to point out that these are the usual suspects.

Every now and then we get inevitable complaints that Her Majesty the Queen and the Royal Family are the nation's most successful benefits scroungers.

Films will always be different to the books they're based on.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has hit the cinemas. What can we expect in part three next year, There and Back Again?

As one of the few people who actually liked the first film of The Hobbit Trilogy, An Unexpected Journey, you would think that a review of the second instalment, The Desolation of Smaug, would be glowing. Sadly I must report that I was disappointed and baffled.

Feminism is probably the most successful political and social movement of the last one hundred years. Not only does nearly everyone want to claim the mantle of feminist, from Harriet Harman and Polly Toynbee to Simon Heffer and Peter Hitchens, but women are now more or less as free as men to pursue whatever aims in life they wish.

It's finally happened. The Cult of David Miliband is finally on its way out along with the man himself. His goodbye letter in the New Statesman has been greeted with nice dose of scepticism and criticism whereas three years ago the reaction would have been adulation and astonishment at his great insight.

Yesterday Dr Timothy Stanley of the Telegraph got into lukewarm water after suggesting that David Cameron should turn his attention away from porn and instead ban Warhammer. Not long after poor Dr Stanley was besieged in the comments by players who could not quite comprehend that his piece was a bit of fun, rather than a serious policy proposal.

In the superb 1927 silent film "Napoleon", by French director Abel Gance, there is a curious moment when the Corsican hero of the film, portrayed by Albert Dieudonné, muses prophetically that one day Europe will be united by neither cannon nor cavalry charge but by treaties and pieces of paper.

Now that yet another band of men have been found guilty of the most appalling sexual crimes against young girls we are already being treated to discussions as to whether there is a problem with certain parts of the Muslim community in this country.

It's not news that Margaret Thatcher was not universally loved by the nation, nor is it a revelation that some on the left have been dribbling with desire at the thought of her death.

Great Britain has a long and glorious tradition of arming and bankrolling groups and regimes to fight the good fight on our behalf.

It's been decades since the Labour Party supported exit from the European Union but after David Cameron's speech last week might a Labour win in 2015 actually be the best hope of Britain leaving the EU?

Nick Clegg is finally on the verge of doing something impressive by taking on a 30 minute call-in show each week on LBC.

My fears that The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey would be a disappointment were based on a number of rather negative and griping reviews. Fortunately, those reviews were wrong. The Hobbit is, in a word, brilliant.

Homophobia and Islamophobia are apparently no longer tolerated by the Associated Press. Both words should be used sparingly by reporters as they suggest a mental disability on the part of those labelled as "homophobes" or "Islamophobes".

Last week the Guardian caused a minor stir after it published a cartoon by Steve Bell that was condemned by some as being anti-Semitic. As if determined to court such accusations, the Guardian has now published an article by a representative of Hamas on its online Comment is Free page.

Peter Hitchens book, The War We Never Fought: The British Establishment's Surrender to Drugs, is not what you might expect.

Read the full transcript of IBTimes UK's interview with Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens on the subject of his new book The War We NEver Fought: The British Establishment's Surrender to Drugs.

Peter Hitchens is used to being treated as the lunatic fringe of British commentariat but does not appear to enjoy his status.

Following the decision by the FA to hand Chelsea player John Terry a four match ban and a £220,000 fine for racist language a band of Twitter trolls took it upon themselves to pour further scorn on Terry's victim Anton Ferdinand.

As Labour heads into its annual party conference in Manchester superficially all would appear to be well for the party.

A spoof report in The Onion has been published as a genuine news story by Iranian news agency Fars.