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The televising of the Commons, begun 20 years ago, was inevitable – but it has diminished the chamber Is it really 20 years since they fitted new, brighter lights above the chamber of the Commons , drove out those atmospheric,...
On a walkabout in east London, Nick Griffin is a magnet for feelings of grief as well as anger On Thursday Nick Griffin paid his first official visit to Barking and Dagenham as the newly declared British National party...
The appointment as a little-known peer to become Europe's first "foreign minister" stunned and dismayed many in Westminster today, prompting a barrage of briefing against Britain's most senior female politician.
Who do these booze giants think they’re catering for when they sell two-litre bottles of cider at knock-down prices, asks Alan Cochrane. The coming days are expected to see ministers attempt to beat Scotland’s growing booze...
One can only fear for Tony Blair after last Thursday's European summit at Brussels. For the truth is that evidence continues to amass that, under the Blair premiership, the British state was responsible, at times, for some...
Listening to Justin Webb stuttering himself into silence on Today yesterday morning was a reminder of how poorly trained London-based journalists are on how Europe works. Webb was a master of Capitol Hill in Washington and...
Newly appointed European Council President-elect Herman Van Rompuy sits in his car as he leaves the Belgian Parliament in Brussels, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Catherine Ashton: International woman of mystery Ashton is Europe's...
Labour party activists in Barking are not taking the threat of the BNP lightly The evening rush outside the Vicarage Fields shopping centre in Barking has the skin tones of many of our major cities. A white English woman in a...
Health secretary Andy Burnham says it is gutter politics to claim benefits for pensioners with disabilities will be cut The government accused the Tories of "scaremongering" and "gutter politics" today for refusing to support...
Amid the pomp and circumstance of the state opening of parliament, the Queen told the assembled peers and MPs: "In Scotland, my government will take forward proposals in the final report of the commission on Scottish...
