Spying, the seaside, sub-sea cables – and Rudyard Kipling
I’m down in Bude, in Cornwall, trying to find out what people think of the local GCHQ outpost’s spying on transatlantic data traffic.
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I’m down in Bude, in Cornwall, trying to find out what people think of the local GCHQ outpost’s spying on transatlantic data traffic.
Politicians like to climb onto the “benefits tourism” hobbyhorse from time to time. But does the evidence really show that people come to the UK for a life on benefits?
Ed Miliband’s cunning and unconventional gambit is offering a seeming solution to the public, and the Coalition is debating its response.
Children from the poorest families in the UK are “failing before they’ve even started in life”, Save the Children says – with seven-year-old pupils falling irretrievably behind their wealthier peers.
Google has come under fire for its tax affairs in the past. As the company publishes its financial statement for 2012, Business Correspondent Siobhan Kennedy pores over the figures. Do they add up?
One year ahead of the independence referendum, Scotland is modern, wealthy and competent enough to embrace the prospect of independence, says writer and musician Pat Kane.
George Osborne says austerity measures pursued by the government are leading to economic recovery, while Labour argues that ordinary families have been left worse off.
The G20 leaders are now in their first session. The sun is blazing outside and the temperature should rise inside over dinner later as Russia’s President Putin has put Syria on the menu.
Ukip’s Godfrey Bloom has promised not to repeat his remarks about “bongo bongo land”. But does he have a point about UK aid funding corruption and arms spending abroad? FactCheck investigates.
Why Friday could mark the end for multinationals using legal loopholes to make billions in the UK and then shift the profits out of the country to pay little or no tax.
How can crime figures continue to tumble even as the economy flatlines and police numbers fall? FactCheck finds out.
Are British politicians badly paid compared to their European counterparts? FactCheck jumps on the gravy train…
The government says Britain is putting its own house in order by getting UK-linked territories to crack down on tax evasion. But there is a notable exception, as FactCheck discovers…
David Cameron insisted it was a “really strong declaration” and jabbed his pen on the lectern to make his point. He credited the cosiness of the leader sessions with getting the final deal.
The government says it is taking “concrete action” to break Britain’s tax haven habit. But FactCheck finds that the devil is in the detail.