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Energy battles resume
All too soon, Ed Miliband’s wheeze on energy bills has sent the Lib Dems and the Tories into conflict with each other again.
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All too soon, Ed Miliband’s wheeze on energy bills has sent the Lib Dems and the Tories into conflict with each other again.
Downing Street defends its crackdown on “benefit tourism” despite new evidence from the European Commission that it is “neither widespread nor systematic” in the UK. Is it merely a myth?
It is one of several radical claims about education in an essay by the education secretary’s adviser Dominic Cummings, published last night. Here are the rest.
In terms of longevity, the ministers around the coalition cabinet table rival the record of the Heath government of the early 1970s.
Living in a tin shack by the roadside, Abdullahi is isolated, barely washed and poorly fed. For the last 17 years he has been chained up by his own family in Hargeisa, Somaliland.
Britain’s state-backed banks are braced for a flood of interest in the help to buy scheme. But MPs warn the Bank of England should have more powers to intervene.
Birmingham children’s services missed opportunities to save three-year-old Keanu Williams in the weeks before he was beaten to death by his mother. A report describes how the child became “invisible”.
David Cameron tells the Conservative conference he wants to create a society built on hard work, tax cuts and enterprise, in which everyone has “the chance to make it”.
Annual stress tests for banks are meant to ensure they remain financially secure, but tougher conditions could make it harder to get a loan, writes Economics Producer Neil MacDonald.
George Osborne is selling a massive extension of workfare as a way to “help (the long-term unemployed) into work.” But is that what the projects tried so far prove and do they save the state money?
George Osborne defends his plans to make the long-term unemployed “work for the dole”, saying it will help people get off benefits.
It only takes a few extreme weather events or a prolonged drought to pit humans against each other.
With Chancellor Angela Merkel on track to win a third term, Channel 4 News looks at why Germany is still calling the shots in Europe.
It is not in Angela Merkel’s DNA to exert a leadership role in Europe and the German people don’t expect it. But she is arguably the most powerful politician in the western world.
The Crown Prosecution Service will push for longer sentences for benefit fraudsters. A long-overdue clampdown or a waste of resources? FactCheck finds out.