The reform of English and Welsh illiberal libel laws is once again under threat. Having survived an attempt to wreck the Bill in the name of press regulation, amendments that would dilute the Bill's provisions on corporate bullying threaten to undo years of progress towards free...

Government policies designed to aid recovery from the UK's economic depression, which followed an unprecedented and largely unresolved financial crisis, should be revised as the economic picture changes. Such revisions are only possible through a considered critique of current policy, and the balancing of risks between any plausible set of...

The head cheerleader for London's banking industry, Mayor Boris Johnson, says that the EU's "deluded, self-defeating" cap on bankers' bonuses is a boost for "Zurich and Singapore and New York."

Zurich.

In Switzerland.

A nation who's voters have overwhelmingly backed stringent curbs on executive pay, payoffs...

President Obama's State of the Union address was full of the soaring rhetoric and accomplished oratory that we've come to expect. Aside from delivering a moving testimony on the need for gun control, and re-affirming his green credentials, a key passage on macro-economic policy is worth considering:

"Most...

Would allowing companies to offer (in some cases impose) the government's 'shares-for-rights' scheme to (upon) their employees help the economy recover? Would it aid the labour market, innovation, growth? George, in your speech to the Tory party conference you suggested it would - these questions strike me as an empirical...

According to this graph, the British state is set to shrink in the next five years and go from "continental levels of public spending, to something sub-American in its miserliness." The Guardian's Aditya Chakrabortty makes a distinctive point, but its significance is hard to judge.

For some, this...

Hardly headline news in ordinary circumstances, but this coalition finds itself in anything but ordinary circumstances. Chancellor Osborne appears to have ruled out making the tax system fairer - specifically, by raising more from the wealth that is concentrated so greatly in the hands of so few. Furthermore,...

Sunshine and rain, bright spells and dark clouds - typical Autumn weather conditions in a British seaside town, and an apt description of what awaits the Liberal Democrats as we gather in Brighton later this week for our annual Conference. Presented with as varied an agenda as we've...

Disquiet at the continued economic malaise has spread to Tory ranks; David Davis delivered a withering assessment of the Coalition's record on economic growth and employment, and proposed a series of reforms to address the failings he identified. Rather like the most famous feline in physics,...