Tory Peer Says Police Should Save Money By Stopping Historical Sex Abuse...
Former chancellor Lord Lawson accused police of “complaining a little bit too much” about budget cuts and suggested they stop funding investigations into historical sex abuse. Police should stop...
View Article25 years ago: Thatcher’s reign as our longest-serving 20th-century PM |...
TWENTY-FIVE years ago this week television viewers watched the first UK episode of House Of Cards, a gripping political drama involving the Machiavellian manoeuvrings of government Chief Whip Francis...
View ArticleLesley Riddoch: Power to grow being taken away by cuts – The Scotsman
This Friday signals the end of growth in the UK’s thriving/fledgling community energy sector. It’s the last day claims can be made for tax relief on investments in community renewables and the last in...
View ArticleKevin McKenna: Nicola Sturgeon’s popularity means there will never be a...
THE SHATTERING results from research conducted by YouGov earlier this month was further vindication of Michelle Mone’s decision to forsake Scotland for a Tory seat in the House of Lords. The polling...
View ArticleUniversal Credit benefit reforms shelved for six months – Mirror Online
Universal Credit, the controversial reform replacing tax credits and housing benefit, is still awaiting official approval. And some think it may never arrive. The Government is still dithering over a...
View ArticleCameron promises Trident vote as cost rises to £31bn
PM says parliament will take decision on renewal “at the appropriate moment”. One of the few surprise features of the Strategic Defence and Security Review, much of which was briefed in advance, was...
View ArticleBritain’s Cameron To Pledge Extra £12 Billion for Defence
LONDON — will promise an additional £12 billion (US $18.2 billion) to strengthen the defense forces when he unveils a five-year strategic review on Monday, according to a government statement. The...
View ArticleThe pretend war: why bombing Isil won’t solve the problem » The Spectator
Not so long ago, David Cameron declared that he was not some ‘naive neocon who thinks you can drop democracy out of an aeroplane at 40,000 feet’. Just a few weeks after making that speech, Cameron...
View ArticleNobody thinks the snooper’s charter is a good idea, but UK pushes ahead anyway
You know when everyone tells you what you’re doing is wrong but you do it anyway? That’s the UK government right now. Tech folks, human rights campaigners and even a member of the House of Lords...
View ArticleThis might be the most controversial theory for what’s behind the rise of...
A year after his 700-page opus “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” stormed to the top of America’s best-seller lists, Thomas Piketty is out with a new argument about income inequality. It may prove...
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