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These days the toughest critics of extending women’s rights are not men – but women Maternity leave is too generous. Such women should not be entitled to the same rights as divorcing wives, Deech said in a lecture, because they...
Liver cancer sufferers are being condemned to an early death by being denied a new drug on the Health Service, campaigners warn. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (building pictured) said the cost of...
'Having it all' can still prove messy and tough, but working life is easier for my generation of women than any before What is it about working motherhood? The subject is like a suppurating sore, a nasty wound that keeps...
Jonathan Oliver, Political Editor Gordon Brown is to make an embarrassing climbdown on plans to abolish a childcare tax break, after a rebellion by female Labour MPs. The U-turn follows a letter to Brown signed by nine former...
The revolt over Gordon Brown's plans to axe childcare vouchers has reached the Cabinet. Cabinet Office minister Tessa Jowell humiliatingly snubbed the Prime Minister's personal plea for her to help cool tempers among furious...
Dan Sabbagh, Media Editor Ian Smith, the chief executive of Reed Elsevier, walked away with a £1.1 million payoff yesterday as he was forced out of the information giant only eight months after taking charge. Mr Smith’s tenure,...
Simon Lambert, This is Money The final Pre-Budget Report before the General Election has been set for 9 December. The Government announced today that the mini-Budget will be held in the run-up to Christmas, with Chancellor...
Former ministers say plan would undo one of party's landmark achievements Nine former cabinet ministers today rounded on Gordon Brown's plans to cut childcare, warning the prime minister that he is threatening marginal Labour...
If unmanageable immigration is the new bogey, it's a bit late for Labour to try to start worrying us with it, says Melanie McDonagh. Last week, Phil Woolas, minister for immigration, told us that the war in Afghanistan must be...
Just how deep the tentacles of communism reached into the heart of British government has now been revealed in an extraordinary diary by Anatoly Chernyaev, the Soviet Union's contact man with the West at the icy height of the...
