Vanessa Alarcon saw them at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square in Washington last month. "I heard someone say: 'Oh my god, look at those'," the university student recalled. "I look up and I'm like, 'What the hell is that?' They looked kind of like dragonflies or little helicopters. But those are not insects." Bernard Crane saw them, too. "I'd never seen anything like it in my life," the Washington lawyer said. "I thought: 'Is that mechanical, or is that alive?' "   more »

A bit of Kipling, a warning our Brussels masters ought to heed?   more »

Iain Dale has posted that the Fixed Term Parliament website is now live, and is to back up the Bill put forward by David Howarth MP.   more »