OPINION

Miliband tells us he’s a man of the people. But, as Gareth Platt says, the reality is far different

If QPR are to stay up, their manager must rekindle the flaming passion which brought him so much success as a player, says Gareth Platt

IB Times Reporter Adrian Back says Sir Alex Ferguson desperately needs to shore up Manchester United's anaemic midfield

Violent protests over anti-Islam video are not the expression of the majority of Muslims, despite a good-bad narrative used by US media

Barclays' name sign disappears from controversial bank's London headquarters at 1 Churchill Place at Canary Wharf - is the bank keeping a low profile?

Visitors to western Europe's tallest building will leave with a skip in their step - thanks to a substantially lighter wallet.

The horrific attack on a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse has happened amid a tense political climate in the country

Kony 2012 film by NGO Invisible Children has created a buzz and divided opinion on the internet.

West's fears over Iran nuclear programme shifts focus to wrong place in Middle East.

Using the social media to predict the stock market sentiments is a bizarre task but it is not possible to ascertain the moods or emotions of investors by mining the huge chunk of data sets, especially from Twitter.

Wayne Rooney's protestation over Vincent Kompany's tackle on Luis Nani in Manchester United's FA Cup match-up with Manchester City seems to have stirred up debate amongst football pundits over whether the 'imaginary red card' is indeed an inherent problem in the Premier League.

Opinion: Republican Lamar Smith, author of a US bill to stop online piracy, seems to be guilty of the very crime he is trying to legislate against.

Jeremy Clarkson has apologised for his comments made on the One Show about executing public workers who took strike action, but would the BBC have received over 21,000 complaints if we didn't have Twitter?

I’m fortunate to have a platform on which I can be opinionated. I try to write once a week on subjects that I feel passionate about in a personal capacity; it’s one of the perks of working in journalism.

Cloud computing, such as iTunes Match, iCloud and Amazon Music will not work in the UK because our infrastructure is outdated and overpriced.

The iPad 2 has been with us since spring and with the iPhone and iPod ranges both seeing yearly updates, it stands to reason that Apple will be releases an iPad 3 in the first quarter of 2012.

Israel's insistence on the need for a pre-emptive strike on Iran belies the Jewish nation's own murky history when it comes to nuclear arsenal.

It is time Karl Marx's classic opening statement of the Communist Manifesto is reworded into something on the lines of: "A spectre is haunting Europe ­- the spectre of a double dip. All the powers of Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre."

The mounting crisis that has gripped the Eurozone countries seems to have boosted China's ongoing efforts to secure a prominent diplomatic space among its western allies.

There will never be a better opportunity to hold a referendum on the UK's membership with the EU.

Rumours of an Apple television have done the rounds before and resulting in nothing more than the Apple TV set-top box, that Steve Jobs referred to as "a hobby" after it sold badly.

For a start: My apologies to those who enjoy my weekly musings, for I completely ran out of time to write this last week. I will however be presenting a fortnight-worthy piece, today.

Christopher Moran, a senior figure in the City of London and Conservative supporter has said: “Britain must support the Euro” to improve the ailing economic climate.

British Gas owner Centrica Plc has responded to mounting criticism from politicians about high energy bills by pledging not to raise its energy prices this winter.

Perhaps the most famous prisoner in the Middle East, Gilad Shalit (or rather, the campaign for his release) has proved a powerful rallying point for Israeli's over the past five years. But the young soldier has also been used as a political pawn by the Israeli government to justify their blockade of the Gaza strip.

Despite international recognition, Italy continues to bury its head in the sand when it comes to tackling the Mafiosi who, it is said, run the country from behind the scenes.

The economic troubles and debt crises currently affecting Britain, the U.S.A. and most obviously the eurozone are not, according to Chancellor George Osborne, an "act of God" but are the result of human folly and will be solved be human ingenuity.

The founders of music-sharing website Napster are teaming up to create a social network with celebrity investors that will take cues from Chatroulette.

It certainly has been an interesting week for those of us working on the technology desk, it’s flown by.