Cabinet Office ministers are planning to hand out £1 billion of other people’s unclaimed money and pensions next year to “good causes” to alleviate the cuts to services being implemented …
The cross-party Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said that the Home Office’s e-Borders programme and its successors are set to cost more than £1 billion, be delivered eight years late, and …
A major row has broken out between Parliament and the Government over the appointment of a new chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Supporters of Jeremy Corbyn have warned that any parliamentary-led attempt to oust him from the Labour leadership will fail in the face of another successful mass campaign in the country.
Teachers have called for a one-day strike as part of a campaign against Government plans to force every school in England to become an academy.
Accusations and counter-accusations about the devastating terrorist attacks that brought Brussels to a standstill and who was to blame for security failures are still in full swing at national, European …
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s troops liberated the ancient town of Palmyra after heavy fighting, losing 180 soldiers and killing more than 400 of the Islamic State terrorists who captured the …
The fate of the British steel industry is teetering in the balance after India-based Tata announced it is pulling out of all its UK operations, including Port Talbot.
Plans to turn every state school in England into an academy were slammed by Conservative councillors, including Melinda Tilley who is responsible for education in David Cameron’s Oxfordshire constituency.
Britain’s iconic Parliament buildings are to be privatised and turned into a risqué nightclub and “entertainments” centre under a £4 billion deficit reduction plan to be put to MPs.
Theresa May’s claim that “crime doesn’t pay” has been totally undermined by public spending cuts targeting trained financial investigators employed to confiscate the assets of wealthy criminals.
A study into the widening gap been affluence and poverty in Britain reveals that there are very few radical ideas among political parties, think tanks or academic institutions for solving …
Unite condemned the Government’s 1 per cent pay rise offered to public sector workers.
The Supreme Court granted the public service union Unison permission to continue its legal challenge against employment tribunal fees.
The Labour Party announced the creation of a Women’s Economic Commission following a meeting between the Shadow Cabinet and former workers who campaigned for equal pay at the Dagenham car …
Accident and Emergency delays in England reached record levels in January, official figures from NHS England revealed.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel refused to ditch her government’s policy on refugees after holding off the strongest showing for a right-wing populist party since the Second World War.
The Electoral Commission warned that tens of thousands of people could miss out on a vote in the EU referendum and May’s Scottish, Welsh and English local elections after changes …
Labour MP Sir Kevin Barron stepped down as Commons Standards Committee chairman over allegations he hosted events at Westminster for a drugs firm
New measures to protect “posted worker” in the European Union will not do enough to guarantee equal pay and conditions, according to trade unions.
George Osborne set out his blueprint for further misery with at least £4 billion more spending cuts hitting the poor, vulnerable and elderly.
Last year finished as it started, with low growth in average weekly earnings for the whole economy, provisionally just 1.5 per cent in December – the same rise as for …
Those on the left know that our economic system fails very many people – and they are not alone, observes John Holden
Mike Parker takes issue with the charge of anti-Semitism being used to smear left-wing critics of Israel
Elizabeth Matsangou describes the genocidal implications of cultural destruction
How can dissident republicans be persuaded to stop their violence? asks John?Coulter
Why are the Conservatives obsessed with trying to control schools? asks Graham Lane
The Budget debacle and Iain Duncan Smith’s resignation have laid bare the divisions, feuds and bile at the heart of the Tory Government, says Ian Hernon
The Cause Jermyn Street Theatre, London Bar Mitzvah Boy Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London
Ian Hernon considers the facts and the elaborations of the violent events that few initially supported but which led to the creation of the Irish Republic
Asa Briggs, BAry Hines, Rob Ford, John Evans
Will June 23 mean Brexit? John Holden assesses the state of play in an increasingly febrile campaign
Paul Donovan argues that the Government’s review of state pensions will be just another attempt to remove support from those most in need
Tom Pendry explains how sport played a major part in the end of racial segregation in South Africa
Thomas Bailey meets one of the thousands of refugees arriving every day on the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos
A change in direction is needed to roll back the policies that have increased the wealth of the top 40 per cent, argues Stewart Lansley, and one solution is to …
March 11 was the centenary of the birth of Harold Wilson. Barry Sheerman pays tribute
The sky is clear tonight. A bitter cold seeps through Moria Camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. Men, women and children are lined up, shivering outside the clothes distribution …
Samuel Willenberg, Lord Avebury, Leonard Berney, Charlie Courtauld
The Government has won its battle with the House of Lords to cut ESA for some of Britain’s most vulnerable people, writes Ian Hernon
March 11 was the centenary of the birth of Harold Wilson. Barry Sheerman pays tribute
The BBC is guilty of sensation-seeking with a much-hyped documentary series, suggests Les Hull
But George Osborne’s priorities mean that the Tory economic nightmare will continue, writes Peter Hain
Tony Burke says Chinese over-production is a growing threat
It seems that the Conservative Government wants be unaccountable, warns Dave Anderson
Legislation isn’t enough to stop FGM, insists Elizabeth Matsangou
After spending a few weeks pondering how to vote in the European Union referendum, I thought I needed some light relief, so I’ve been considering Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.
When I vote for Britain to remain in the European Union in June, and when I argue for the members of my union and others to do likewise in the …
How little some things change as President Jacob Zuma begins his fight to keep his job and possibly stay out of jail for corruption
How did it ever come to this? Junior doctors going on all-out strike, the first time this has happened in the history of the National Health Service.
The debate around electoral reform is one about democracy and the sort of democracy we wish to see across the United Kingdom.
Even a Chancellor of the Exchequer as innumerate as George Osborne, economics never his strong point, as many are able and willing to testify, should be able to tell the …
Jim Innes, a husband and father, a great stalwart of the Labour Party, and a friend to many, died last week. Our lives will be diminished.
“I’m Out and Proud”, declared Boris Johnson as he appealed to the LGBT community in Britain to vote “Leave” in the European Union referendum.
The stramash over Iain Duncan Smith’s post-Budget resignation has, albeit for good reasons, over-shadowed the sheer economic incompetence of George Osborne’s package.
Life on the lower decks of the Westminster ship of fools has been febrile indeed.
There is no reverse gear, the Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, told a sceptical audience of teachers in defence of the announcement that the English education system is to have an …
I was surprised that Rupert insisted I come along to help him celebrate his wedding to Jerry last month.
The paths of two much mis-underestimated, highly ethical individuals crossed recently
I remember feeling like this when Neil Hamilton sued Mohamed Al-Fayed for libel in 2001, or when George Galloway debated late-period neo-con Christopher Hitchens in New York in 2005: how …
