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The CPS admits it made a mistake about locations involved in Ian Tomlinson’s death during the announcement that no charges were being brought against the officer in the case, writes Marcus Edwards.
Jonathan Rugman blogs on Kurdistan’s growing confidence in its economic future as questions remain about Iraq’s political deadlock in Baghdad.
With ash silencing our skies – what about the future plans from Labour, Conservatives & Lib Dems for high speed rail? Will we get it? And if so, when?
In the few hours before this seminal, historic, semi-colon in the 21st century story of Britain, I advise the three not-so-wise men who have come from afar to gather in Manchester to go on a last minute walk around the world’s greatest city. My home town can illuminate the issues in this election.
Size does matter to the G20 finance ministers. We know this in relation to the extent of the recovery. Some feel recovery has bedded down sufficiently to allow talk of ‘exit strategies’ from the extraordinary stimulus seen around the world. Others, including the chancellor, fear that “the biggest single risk to recovery is that people…
Jon Snow
So today we get a squint at the new regulations that MAY be brought in to guard against the greed, ignorance and arrogance that brought about the banking melt down and consequent financial crisis last year. Sir David Walker’s interim report lands on the chancellor’s desk today. It is said to reveal the unbelievable lack…
A police officer is questioned under caution and could face manslaughter charges, as a new post mortem into the death of Ian Tomlinson rules he did not die of a heart attack. Simon Israel reports.
How events have unfolded since Ian Tomlinson collapsed at the G20 protests in the London on 1 April 2009.
Jon Snow
This G20 exists at so many levels. Take Brazil’s President Lula. Fearless campaigner against the carbon footprint. But having flown from Brazil to Doha and Doha to Paris, today he abandoned his plane, sending it empty to London while he took the train. But the high spot thus far has been the Obama-Brown press conference.…
Jon Snow
I’m sitting the Locarno room at the Foreign Office waiting with 200 other hacks for the Obama/Brown press conference, and even in this august circumstance there’s an air of a palpable expectation. Not of course in terms of economic breakthrough but the mere arrival of The Man.
Jon Snow
The shredding of Sir Fred Goodwin’s glassware has an awful inevitability about it. His own behaviour may have led to his demonisation. It’s hard to see how his position can improve until either the authorities act (if there’s a provable case against him) or he tries to make some kind of amends.
Faisal Islam sounds a warning note for British savers attracted to Icelandic institutions by high interest rates. Six months later, the country’s economy – and its major banks – collapsed.
We were joined by economist and University College London professor Mariana Mazzucato.
That means pylons – across Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. And the battle lines are forming. To bury or not to bury, that is the question. Nobody wants to look out on pylons.
One or two-word Ofsted inspection grades for schools in England are being scrapped, the government has announced.