With the challenges facing the British economy and the huge pressure on many families' finances, George Osborne didn't have much room for manoeuvre in today's Budget. There was no spare cash for giveaways so he made a series of careful trade-offs which, overall, will leave ease the pressure on lots...

This year the government is making available an extra £650 million to help principal local authorities to freeze council tax. In the last 10 years council tax has almost doubled across the UK, yet many residents have not seen a corresponding increase in the services they receive.

Many households...

In September rogue UBS trader Kweku Adoboli was arrested following allegations he had cost the banking group an estimated £1.3 billion by abusing his position. But it isn't just occasional high profile rogue traders who let down their employers. A critical test of any organisation is how they respond to...

Today's strikes have been a long time coming and trade unions have had ample opportunity to call them off, but a small number of hardliners are determined to cause disruption to millions of people.

Union leaders have called out their members on strike with between a quarter and a...

The official national debt is expected to reach nearly £1.4 trillion in 2015-16. But it's only part of the real national debt. If you want to really understand our total public sector liabilities you also need to include items like PFI deals and bills for nuclear decommissioning.

But by far...

MPs were told yesterday that those opposing High Speed Rail are not "Luddites or Nimbys". The House of Commons Transport Committee was hearing evidence from opponents to plans for a high speed rail line from London to Birmingham (HS2).

We at the TaxPayers' Alliance have been against high speed...