Last week was a bad one for English cricket. What could be more humiliating that a defeat by New Zealand. Answer? A whopping defeat by New Zealand.

People like Tim Blair complain about people who say the actions of terrorists had nothing to do with Islam. Sure it does, but he is another one struggling with the concept that because someone does something belongs to a certain group then all people who belong to that group will behave the same.

Even though UKIP claims they are not a racist organisation, their membership seems littered with characters who are overtly so.

Big bad John. He was a former Deputy PM from somewhere 'up norf. He left politics shortly after belting a protestor who threw a rotten egg at him. Now he's back to add colour to UK politics.

It's feared that three girls, aged 15 and 16, have left the UK to become Jihadist brides for Islamic State fighters in Syria. What are they thinking? It's not exactly a Club 18-30 holiday.

Christine Milne, the Greens leader, is taking a bit of a hammering on Facebook for her comments on Tony Abbott’s national security address.

Whilst the US President has promised to lift the US minimum wage to a level where people could afford to eat, Walmart has unilaterally adding a few extra dollars on the payback of its half a million low income workers.

In America, all it takes is an injunction from a federal judge to stop the President in his tracks. As Richard Kazimer explains, Obama has a fight to progress his immigration policy.

Prime Minister Abbott has played the fear card, but his National Security Address fell a little flat. What he needed was a dramatic music backing.

Prime Minister Abbott has warned us that the threat of terrorism is getting worse. Fortunately he’s just the man to do something about it. That’s a relief. Thank goodness his party didn’t get rid of him in the leadership challenge.