Can Miliband persuade voters he’s tough on welfare?
Labour Ed Miliband is focusing on welfare changes to convince voters he’s not weak leader. But he risks antagonising parts of his party in the process.
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Labour adviser Jon Cruddas has accused Ed Miliband’s inner circle of wiedling a ‘dead hand’ over party policy and leadership.
With unemployment at its lowest since reunification, a growing economy and a chance of winning the football World Cup, a new study suggests Germany is at its most optimistic in history.
Khat, the stimulant leaf chewed by Yemeni and east African communities, especially Somalis, is now illegal and is classed as a class C drug – but will that stop it being sold illegally in the UK?
Labour Ed Miliband is focusing on welfare changes to convince voters he’s not weak leader. But he risks antagonising parts of his party in the process.
England are seeking revenge against Italy in Brazil on Saturday – but the game will have a very different meaning if the two nations meet again at the Homeless World Cup later this year.
The recession led to 10,000 suicides in Europe, the US and Canada, 1,000 of them in the UK, according to researchers.
Strong jobs growth continues as UK unemployment rate falls – but wage data show prices continue to rise much faster than pay packets.
Unemployment continues to fall, but pay growth drops significantly – despite government hopes that the so-called “cost of living crisis” is coming to an end.
For Lord Carrington, as for many other Conservative politicians of his generation, the two most formative events were the mass unemployment of the 1930s and the second world war.
King Juan Carlos enjoyed high popularity ratings – until his daughter became embroiled in a corruption scandal and he was filmed on safari at the height of Spain’s economic downturn.
A YouGov poll for Channel 4 News finds four-in-five Ukip voters believe the UK was a better place to raise children 20-30 years ago. But is this true? And what do you think?
On Saturday, suspected suicide bombers struck a restaurant popular with westerners in Djibouti. Three people died and more than a dozen were injured, including European nationals.
Imagine you went to sleep in 1994 and woke up 20 years later as the Euro election results were coming in. What you might make of them can tell us a lot about Europe today.
Martin Hadfield’s parents put the 20-year-old’s suicide down to his struggle to find a job. He is not alone, and The Samaritans say there is a lack of “safety net” after this recession.
Since the Westgate shopping mall attacks, many Kenyans now live in fear. But the government’s anti-terror crackdown has angered many Muslims, some of whom have flocked to al-Shabaab.