South-East Asia's subsidy-slashing is doing it plenty of good and little harm, says David Fyfe of the International Energy Agency.

ECONOMIST: More drilling, less subsidising

China's rapidly growing economy will account for 40% of the 1.65m-barrels-a-day increase in demand expected this year by the International Energy Agency, according to David Fyfe, one of its analysts.

ECONOMIST: Markets should worry about the surging oil price

After nearly three decades of similar disagreement, Wales was, in effect, given permission to choose a capital by the Minister for Welsh Affairs Sir David Maxwell Fyfe in 1951.

BBC: Capital claims - A city's struggle

Mr Macmanus, a former ministerial adviser, traces the Conservatives' changing attitudes from the anti-gay crusading of 1950s home secretary David Maxwell Fyfe to an era when a Conservative prime minister can support gay marriage at his party conference and win a round of applause.

BBC: Booktalk: The political books of 2011