Chrissie Hynde
: Don't Get Me Wrong: I Won't Stand For Cruelty to Geese
Ed Miliband
: A Distant and Distracted Cameron Cannot Tackle Tax Avoidance
Charles Moore
: Margaret Thatcher's First Visit to Washington of the Reagan Presidency
Natalie Bennett
: Jobs You Can Build a Life On: The British Economy Isn't Delivering
Seth Freedman
: We Don't Need No Regulation
It might be time to start preparing for 'post-developed, de-developing' Britain.
The UK remains in the midst of the deepest recession in living memory with few predicting a change in fortune anytime soon. People in Wales are particularly feeling the pinch. Unemployment is higher than the UK average and the cull of the public sector has, and will continue to, hit us especially hard since it employs a higher proportion of our workforce than in England or Scotland.
Police chiefs have warned of the dangers of using unpaid volunteers to replace fully-trained officers as figures showed police numbers were at their l...
The Home Secretary was heckled on Wednesday as she told rank-and-file officers that changes to their pay and conditions were reforms which hard-workin...
Francois Hollande's triumph in the French presidential election has, it seems, sent a clear message - voters are tired of austerity. Jubilant Socia...
The public sector workforce is set to fall to an historic low, with around one in seven jobs expected to be axed as a result of the Government's spend...
David Cameron has been quizzed by school children over his love of horse riding, whether he dances in Downing Street and if he still listens to his mo...
The BBC has been slammed by MPs over how it has handled its cuts programme. The Commons public accounts committee warned that the broadcaster riske...
I really want to like Ed Miliband. You have to admire anyone who applies for a job knowing that one of the perks is to be lambasted and attacked very personally day in, day out by five national newspapers for being the spawn of Satan, and that's just when things aren't going your way. Start to score points against the coalition and they really turn on you.
On Saturday, the Shadow Chancellor admitted that if the Labour Party were in government, they would not deviate from the tough decisions that George Osborne and David Cameron are making in an effort to cut the deficit.
In 2012 let's resolve to ban the phrase 'more for less' when talking about the future of public services.
Although many of them have yet to realise it, busy as they are with the ongoing discussions on public sector pensions, the big issue for trade unions in 2012 will be the implementation of regional pay and the break-up of the national pay bargaining schemes.
The harsh fact is that most of the people I have to make redundant, cut their hours or their salaries are women.
Warning bells should be sounding in Westminster in the run up to Christmas. While the government gears up for the recess and festive celebrations, hard-pressed families across the UK are wondering how they are going to put a turkey on the table this year. What a seriously bleak midwinter for the 2.64million now unemployed and the millions of low paid workers, suffering from pay freezes in the face of high inflation.
The Deputy First Minister has hit back at Labour claims that the Scottish Government is imposing tougher public sector cuts than the Tories. Labour...
It has only been a few days since Liam Fox announced his resignation as defence secretary, but no doubt there have already been questions over the gov...
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has ordered every council to publish a list of the land and buildings they own. He said mos...
The Ministry of Defence is to axe a further 7,000 civilian jobs as part of the department's desperate efforts to bring its soaring budget under contro...
