The cost of policing the Bilderberg conference – a meeting of politicians, academics and business leaders – in Hertfordshire last week was more than £1m, the Home Office has revealed.
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Ed Miliband 'winning battle of ideas'
Sunday 15 January 2012
Ed Miliband claimed today he was "winning the battle of ideas" but said it was a "hard process" to change the Labour Party.
Time to close tax havens loophole, says Miliband
Sunday 15 January 2012
More than £2bn could be raised if action is taken against wealthy UK residents' offshore funds
Steve Richards: Referendums can be very dangerous if you don't know the result
Friday 13 January 2012
In the UK, referendums are rarely held. Quite a few are offered at some distant point in the future, but governments only call them when they are confident they will win. This is what makes the drama over a referendum for Scottish independence so explosive. Referendums here are not about leaders discovering a sudden passion for direct forms of democracy. Usually they are about leaders seizing control of controversial policies.
'Project Ed' to be relaunched –with a dose of economic reality
Tuesday 10 January 2012
The Labour leader today takes the fight to Cameron in a speech focusing on a 'responsible capitalism'
John Rentoul: No one to replace Ed Miliband? Try Yvette Cooper
Tuesday 03 January 2012
Cooper's politics are not mine but she would be populist on law and order, and she would be noticed
Simon Carr: Our money will be safe by the next parliament – a sort of Neverland for MPs
Tuesday 20 December 2011
Sketch: Vince had a look of morose satisfaction, but with George championing it and Balls opposing it, it was no Lib Dem victory
FSA admits inadequacy in dealing with failing banks
Tuesday 13 December 2011
Political pressure from senior Labour politicians – including the now shadow Chancellor Ed Balls – was partly responsible for the failure to regulate the Royal Bank of Scotland in the years leading to the banking crash, a critical report concluded yesterday.
Labour was behind failure to regulate RBS, FSA report says
Tuesday 13 December 2011
Pressure from last government was partly responsible for hands-off approach, review claims
It's my party and I'll cry if I want to...
Wednesday 23 November 2011
Politicians used to show that they cared by kissing babies. Now they tell us what makes them tearful. Andy McSmith on the politics of crying
Natalie Haynes: Antiques Roadshow tears aren't really worth much
Wednesday 23 November 2011
The thing is...
Simon Carr: Is anyone in this House old enough to remember that Napoleon chap?
Tuesday 08 November 2011
Events nowadays are very large and our young leaders look like pygmies
John Rentoul: Who will say we're better off out of Europe?
Sunday 06 November 2011
If the single currency survives, it may not be long before a serious politician calls for Britain to leave the EU
The Sketch: High-pitched Cameron flustered by Labour's farmyard noises
Thursday 03 November 2011
Yesterday I worried the Sketch was a bit lofty about the House of Commons' economic debate. The Labour front bench was arguing in sign language, the signs were rude, and the Sketch shuddered, perhaps a little delicately. The signs got ruder yesterday, if Tory reports are true.
The Sketch: You wouldn't want to have this guy's stare fixed on you under a swinging lightbulb
Wednesday 12 October 2011
First impressions of the Met's new Commissioner? An athletic, steady-eyed, rough-skinned sort of man. A stranger to exfoliants and facial moisturisers. Lean. Watchful. A discharged soldier who's been sleeping rough would look like Mr Hogan-Howe. He has a fixity of attention that would be unnerving were it applied to oneself under a swinging lightbulb.
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Disability campaigners celebrate 'victory' after government rethink over plans to make it more difficult to claim disability benefits
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'Jail reckless bankers': Report urges the Government to introduce new criminal offence for reckless management
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Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
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We never knew Nigella Lawson - and we still don’t
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Vice pulls 'breathtakingly tasteless' fashion shoot glorifying the suicides of famous female authors from Sylvia Plath to Virginia Woolf
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