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Gary Gibbon
You do wonder if the team started with a number on one side and then worked back. The £48.6 billion tax and spend proposals equate to 40% of GDP. That puts this overall offer on the outer perimeters of British political experience but not beyond them. That 40% figure has generally not been breached apart…
“Science needs women,” says the Royal Society, after the widely-criticised pronouncements of Nobel prize-winning biochemist Sir Tim Hunt, who advocated single-sex labs to avoid “trouble with girls”.
Gary Gibbon
George Osborne announces the sell-off of the last third of Royal Mail and Ed Miliband gives his first speech in nine years from the back benches.
George Osborne has announced plans to sell off the government’s remaining stake in Royal Mail, providing they get “value for money”.
Siobhan Kennedy
First it was Libor. Now Britain’s biggest banks are poised to disclose massive fines for their role in the manipulation of the global foreign exchange market, or Forex.
A London health report recommends banning smoking in parks. Is this a logical next step in the campaign to stop smoking, or an unjustified attack on personal freedom?
Good heir days, buns in the oven, concern over Kate’s moisturising regime: a case of baby brain from marketing teams across the UK?
Some say the news of a second baby for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge could save the Union. Only a few royal births can claim to have altered the course of a country’s history.
Gary Gibbon
George Osborne’s response to news that Britain has recovered all the ground lost in the recession of 2008-09 speaks volumes of a government that believes it can win the election.
Gary Gibbon
I understand word has gone out to Mrs Gove to stop hitting the tweet button after a series of messages blurted out on Wednesday. They threatened to undermine the coordinated Gove/Cameron operation to minimise his pain at the reshuffle. They may have been triggered by the late realisation in the Gove household that the office of…
The crew of a Royal Navy ship are “working 24/7” to hunt for flight recorders from the missing Malaysian plane, their commander says.
Bahrain’s royal family faces a lose-lose situation ahead of the grand prix: cancel it and lose face, or let it proceed and become a hook for adverse media coverage, writes activist Dr Ala’a Shehabi.
Taxpayers missed out on millions of pounds because of the way the government handled the sale of Royal Mail, the spending watchdog says.
A man accused of killing four soldiers in London’s Hyde Park will not be prosecuted after being wrongly told that he was not wanted by the police.
Consumer groups will be given a greater role in identifying and fixing “broken markets” under plans set out by Ed Miliband for a shake-up of the way competition across the business world is regulated.