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British police are looking into complaints made against a Pakistani politician who is alleged to have threatened violence when addressing supporters a...
One in 10 British workers is working fewer hours than they'd like to. Forced casualisation is a reality for millions. The 'underemployment rate' for 16-24-year-olds is 30%. Retail workers are being offered 12-hour weeks, at a level that puts them below the national insurance payment threshold.
The Ukip councillor alleged to have called illegal immigrants "sandal-wearing, bomb-making, camel-riding, goat-f******, ragheads" could be ejected fro...
Ukip insists it is not in debt - despite "throwing the kitchen sink" at its local election campaign. The party has also taken out an advert in the ...
An illegal immigrant who was smuggled into the UK after his father and brother were murdered by militants in his native Afghanistan has lost his fight...
David Cameron is under pressure after a member of his top team allegedly branded Tory supporters 'swivel-eyed loons'. The phrase, which Tory co-cha...
Civil service mandarins have had a tough time recently. Many government ministers have seen civil servants as obstacles to their plans rather than team players and the media has taken Whitehall to task over pay, perks and benefits.
Ukip has spent £46,000 on a full-page newspaper advert in an attempt to ratchet up the misery for David Cameron. The party has tried to woo discon...
Business Secretary Vince Cable has refused to rule out becoming leader of the Liberal Democrats, but insisted that it was "not something I'm thinking ...
The silver lining in David Cameron's current flurry of clouds is that no ministers have yet decided that their career prospects would be better served by resigning from his government.
UPDATE: Ukip are investigating Chris Pain and say he could be ejected from party Ukip's leading councillor for Lincoln, Chris Pain, has been embroi...
Pressure continued to mount on the Conservative leadership over claims an ally of David Cameron described grassroots activists as "mad, swivel-eyed lo...
MPs are set to receive a pay rise of up to £20,000. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) has been looking at an increase of be...
UPDATE: Ukip are investigating Chris Pain and say he could be ejected from party A Ukip councillor is alleged to have described "illegal immigrants...
Lord Howe, former foreign secretary, has claimed David Cameron is losing control of his party as the Conservatives' "long, nervous breakdown" over Eur...
Political apathy is at unheard of levels and a solution is desperately needed. As we commence the stop-start road to the next election, the leading parties are lurching towards their particular ends of the political spectrum. This is a desperate attempt to appease their core voters, which will probably end up losing everyone else along the way. Ukip might be flavour of the month, or at least in England, but at least they're getting the population fired up about politics again.
Michael Gove faced the wrath of headteachers on Saturday over the state of the education system, just hours after they passed a landmark vote of no co...
Education Secretary Michael Gove is not a champion of education, more a "fanatical personal trainer" urging headteachers to go "faster, faster, higher...
It turns out that Ukip donor Demetri Marchessini doesn't think women should wear trousers. The former shipping tycoon, who has given Nigel Farage's...
One of Ukip's top donors has criticised women for wearing trousers - saying they are deliberately making themselves look unattractive. Demetri Marc...
If only the Prime Minister had, say, a straight-talking Northerner he could turn to, to lift the party's appeal outside of the South East. Maybe someone who was uninterested in PR spin but was a take-me-as-I-am kind of bloke, educated perhaps at the local comp, maybe even went to polytechnic, the sort of background that would help to balance the coiffeured posh brigade.
We are being bullied out of politics. No one can handle that burden, that perfect trope, that men do not have to embody at all. Men can be total shits in politics and people see them as strong, they can be sexual abusers and no one bats an eyelid.
The government says it will consider allowing heterosexual couples to form civil partnerships - but only five years after gay marriage has been introd...
The Jamaican Mary Seacole became an heroine when she travelled over 4,000 miles to nurse and attend sick British soldiers in the Crimea during the Crimean War. During her life her exploits were revered, by royalty, the military elite and thousands of ordinary citizens. More than 100 years later, tens of thousands of school children view Seacole as a wonderful role model.
My argument was that all of the likely election outcomes in 2015, the least likely was an overall Tory victory that would enable him to remain in Downing Street. Now, though, I'm beginning to think his downfall could come even sooner.
