Labour's new rules mean that anyone who works in these institutions may have to get down on their knees to keep their jobs Children start their new schools this week for the 12th year under Labour. Next year 13 more new...
David Cameron gushes about John McCain in a new biography of the Tory leader by GQ editor and Mail on Sunday columnist Dylan Jones. David Cameron gushes about John McCain in a new biography of the Tory leader by Dylan...
One of the UK's leading social networking communities has announced ambitious plans for a media club. Village Drinks said it has the backing of the the BBC and Edelman; the world's largest independent PR firm. What started...
Every day one hears pleas for the government to provide more money for good causes, such as cancer drugs, sports provision for the 2012 Olympics and so on (Feeble Labour folds in the face of anti-tax paranoia, August 26)....
Demoralised Labour backbenchers, watching helplessly as their government disintegrates and the prospect of electoral humiliation looms, have at last found a cause to which they can rally: higher taxes on the ‘super-rich’,...
In a piece here yesterday, Zoe Gannon, a Compass research fellow, argued that Britain should follow Norway's example by building up "a £100bn fund, ear-marked for future generations" from its oil tax revenues. Britain...
This party should be taking on the cheating and avoidance of the super-rich. Instead they cower in their caves A wounded government has been cowering in its caves all summer, sheltering from the rain of enemy arrows while...
Polly Toynbee's comparison of carbon credits (Comment, August 16) with 1940s rationing is a false one. The wartime situation was about making sure that everyone got a share of essential commodities that were in short supply. It...
With the news in that there are now more pensioners in Britain than children, it is clearly time for the government to stock take and decide what they are going to do about the welfare state in this country. It does not seem to...
While Britain basks in the unaccustomed aura of gold medal success, here's something else we are uniquely good at - studying ourselves. At £15.5m, it's the most expensive single piece of social research ever commissioned. It...