This is no happy place for an opposition whose strategy until now was predicated on little more than pointing out the evil ways of Gordon Brown's government. Instead, David Cameron's team is the one sweating under the spotlight and feeling pinned dow...

Yesterday's White Paper is welcome for one reason and one reason alone: it puts the argument about social care squarely on to the electoral agenda. While proposing a National Care Service that, like the NHS, would be free at the point of need, howeve...

Equally damagingly, it leads to a futile and sterile dialogue in which those who oppose a ban, on the basis of 40 years' evidence that prohibition does not work, are characterised as being "soft on drugs", while the prohibitionists claim the moral hi...

The first of these inquiries, by the House of Commons all-party Science and Technology Committee, has now reported and it states that the reputation of Professor Jones and the three full-time scientists who make up his unit remains intact. He did not...

In his first formal speech, the new American Ambassador Louis Susman, speaking to the Pilgrims Society last November, observed how strong our two nations' ties are. He pointed out the basis of the special relationship, a term coined by Winston Church...

On 28 November 1992, I got into Srebrenica, eight months into the siege, with the first UN aid convoy. We drove past a gauntlet of Serbian women, screaming abuse, spitting and shouting "No food for Muslims!" The relief felt in the town was enormous. ...

Now Labour ministers, aided and abetted by Buckingham Palace, risk a similar debacle by denying the public access to sensitive and embarrassing documents relating to the funding of the Queen's occupied palaces. Today's disclosure of more than 100 let...

Participants in an online study were asked questions about standards in public life, both in April, before The Daily Telegraph began publishing details of MPs' expenses, and again in September. What is most interesting is not the change that occurred...

That's unlikely, according to the latest research, revealing that this noble beast moves as a Land Rover not a Mercedes-Benz. Most four-legged animals, your see, accelerate using their back legs and halt using their forelegs – as everybody who has a ...

I hated his opinions, of course. But I liked him. Would I be friends with someone like that now? Of course not. But I was young and my journey with him was one of those teenage crash courses – perhaps even a "crush" course – in just how complex life ...

Rumours immediately surfaced that Sir Ian, the new chair of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) felt no need to endorse the radical reforms devised by Sir Christopher Kelly, Westminster's standards watchdog. Not only did he doubt...

X and his family, for example – I'll call him Myint Swe, lifting a name at random from the New Light of Myanmar. Furtive pathways led me to his home in northern Rangoon, a shack close to a rubbish dump. A little beaming bird of a man, he recounted pr...