Budget 2015: political tricks but no rabbit out of the hat
To avoid damage to his reputation for prudence, George Osborne’s pre-election budget was short on giveaways but not without political trickery.
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Max Veritas, 99, fought Oswald Mosley’s fascists in Cable Street nearly eighty years ago. Now he is fighting again – a demand for £25,000 from his local council.
David Cameron and Ed Miliband clash with Jeremy Paxman in the first public contest leading up to the general election, and take a grilling from the public on their records and future promises.
A Conservative election candidate is suspended from the party over allegations of a plot involving the English Defence League.
A Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seeker who claims to have suffered extensive torture before escaping to the UK has won a last minute reprieve just hours before he was due to be forcibly deported.
To avoid damage to his reputation for prudence, George Osborne’s pre-election budget was short on giveaways but not without political trickery.
Swedish prosecutors say they will question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over sexual assault allegations inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
The findings in today’s intelligence and security committee report seem at odds with the picture presented by documents from the whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Israel is much more frightened by Iran than by the Islamic State group – which explains why he will today warn the US against any nuclear deal with Tehran.
Labour says its plans to cut tuition fees will make the system “more progressive”. Others says poor students will be worse off. Who’s right?
Ed Miliband sets out how a Labour government would honour its pledge to cut university tuition fees to £6,000 a year, saying an “entire generation” has been betrayed.
It was a showpiece for the city – the brand-new airport where England’s football team landed for the Euro championships three years ago. Now Donetsk airport and much of the wider region lie in ruins.
We walked past the burned-up tail planes of jets on the tarmac. The shell-splashed hangars with torn metal cladding screaming and clanking eerily in the biting wind and snow showers.
As HSBC issues an apology over tax allegations, Business Secretary Vince Cable says HM Revenue and Customs “could be doing a great deal more” to address such issues.
In a first for the US military Chelsea Manning, the soldier serving 35-years in prison for sending classified documents to Wikileaks, is to receive hormone therapy as part of her gender reassignment.
As Tory peer Lord Fink admits taking “vanilla” steps to reduce his tax bill and insists “everyone” is at it, Channel 4 News unveils its own avoidance ice cream counter. Which flavour are you?