Gary Gibbon
Summer Budget 2015: topsy turvy politics
The chancellor stole some of Labour’s policy clothes in his latest budget announcements, but his tendency to favour old over young has not been altered.
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FactCheck: the summer budget – what George Osborne isn’t telling you
A “lower-welfare, lower tax” budget, said the Chancellor. As usual, the small print didn’t quite match the rhetoric…
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Gary Gibbon
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Budget 2015: the key points in Tory plan for the economy
George Osborne has pledged to create a “higher wage, lower tax, lower welfare” Britain as he unveiled the first Tory-only Budget for nearly 20 years.
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Keme Nzerem
Do you need to be posh to play cricket?
The 13-strong men’s Ashes squad taking on the Aussies tomorrow contains seven state-educated players, just over 50 per cent, yet the proportion of children in state education – 93 per cent.
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Paul Mason
Is Greece about to call the EU’s bluff?
The EU leadership told Greeks a No meant exit from the eurozone. The Greek government said they were bluffing. We’ll find out who’s right soon.
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Veterans with dogs: ‘without my dog I’d be dead’
Former Marine Craig MacLellan, who has been helped to survive post-traumatic stress disorder by the companionship of his pet Labrador, has set up Veterans with Dogs to help others like him.
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Islamic State kill at least 70 in Egypt
At least 70 people die in a coordinated attack by Islamic State militants in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula. Lasting several hours, the assault targets several military checkpoints.
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Fracking: Lancashire council rejects drilling application
Mining giant Cuadrilla is denied permission to start exploratory drilling and fracking at a site between Preston and Blackpool.
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Marikana massacre: police tactics ‘defective’ – commission
South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma presents the findings of the long-awaited commission of inquiry into the massacre of striking miners in Marikana in 2012 – saying police tactics were “defective”.
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Paul Mason
Greece: a deal nobody believes in
While the proposal has caused outrage among the Greek conservatives and outrage among Syriza’s left-wing voters, the real problem is bigger.
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Paul Mason
Why the words ‘civil war’ are no longer a joke in Greece
If today’s Brussels talks fail, the Greek debt crisis could stop being a story about economics and become one of civil society, politics and the rule of law.
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Meningitis B vaccine to be offered to ‘all babies’
All babies in England and Wales are to be offered vaccines against meningitis B from September, the government announces.
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Greece crisis: one month to Grexit?
It is crunch time for Greece. If it fails to pay its debts it could be forced to leave the euro and the EU, and plunge into the unknown. These are the key dates as we approach possible Grexit.
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Paul Mason
Greek eurozone crisis: is time running out for Syriza?
The Greek crisis ramped up a gear last night when, at the start of supposed “last chance” talks in Brussels, EU negotiators told the Greek delegation that “negotiations were over”.
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Paul Mason
Gaza child deaths – the view from the shoreline
Today Israel has exonerated its military from any criminal charges relating to the action. It says they were playing in a “compound” clearly identified…
