When it came to Ronald Reagan, the Iron Lady was a pussycat
Imagine my excitement on learning there were tapes of Mrs Thatcher’s handbagging of Ronald Reagan after the US invasion of Grenada. But in fact she hardly gets a word in.
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Imagine my excitement on learning there were tapes of Mrs Thatcher’s handbagging of Ronald Reagan after the US invasion of Grenada. But in fact she hardly gets a word in.
The squeeze on household budgets “cannot go on”, says the head of the business lobbying group, the CBI, as he calls for an expansion of free childcare and a rise in the national insurance threshold.
Do immigrants pay their way, or are they a drain on the economy? FactCheck looks at the latest evidence.
Official statistics show the UK’s net contribution to the EU rose by £2.7bn to £11.3bn in 2013. The government says it will not hand over a further £1.7bn Brussels expects to be paid by 1 December.
The government’s decided to bring forward the planned date for the vote on when it tries to re-join European Arrest Warrant.
Germany suffers its sharpest drop in industrial production since 2009 – boosting fears that the EU’s economic powerhouse could head for recession and trigger a crisis across Europe.
With just days to go until the independence referendum, those who are still undecided will decide Scotland’s fate.
Ukraine’s president accuses Russia of launching a “direct and open aggression” against the country after government forces suffered major reverses against the rebels.
President Putin seems confident as he says one thing and does another – denying Russian soldiers have crossed the border despite overwhelming evidence is classic Soviet doublespeak.
Today’s immigration figures showed an increase of 68,000 people coming to the UK, meaning it is almost impossible for the Conservatives to honour their election pledge to bring down net migration.
The UK economy grew by 0.8 per cent in the second quarter and has now recovered the ground lost since the downturn began in 2008, according to official figures released this morning.
From the Northern Rock collapse, to crashed markets via bust banks, coalitions cuts and painful austerity, this clickable graphic tracks how the British economy recovered.
How should Britain respond to growing calls to punish Russia’s oligarchs in wake of the shooting down of MH17?
We just sent a camera out to film “Russian influence” in the City of London. As I expected, there’s a few nameplates, some doorbells and the odd logo – Alfabank, Sberbank – and that’s it.
Don’t hold your breath for a thunderclap of judgement on Russia tomorrow at the EU foreign ministers’ gathering. You might get some tough rhetoric but you will not see a major escalation of sanctions.