Martina Milburn
: What Makes a Great Role Model
Alistair Darling
: Salmond's Default Position Bankrupts His Credibility
Nicola Sturgeon
: Scotland Has Every Right to Be Confident About Our Economic Prospects
Duncan Weldon
: Chancellor Should Heed IMF Advice and Increase Infrastructure Spending Now
Harry Cooper
: A Referendum on Europe Tomorrow Would Not Stop Ukip
Scottish independence could cement the Conservative Party's hold on Westminster, according to Labour. Scottish deputy leader Anas Sarwar said indep...
Jamie Oliver has praised Ukip, saying he "loves" the way Nigel Farage's party is "stirring it up". The Naked Chef made a rare foray into politics, ...
Former Cabinet minister Chris Huhne has been released from Leyhill Prison in Gloucestershire. The former Lib Dem Energy Secretary served 62 days of...
After members of his Cabinet spent the weekend talking up life outside the EU, David Cameron now has to highlight the benefits of a possible trade dea...
After hosting HRH Prince Harry for a surprise visit with First Lady Michelle Obama, the White House will welcomes prime minister David Cameron on Monday to discuss the latest crisis in Syria, the up-coming G8 Summit in Northern Ireland as well as Iran and the Middle East peace process.
Osborne didn't need to genuflect towards the House of Mouse, because the UK has a well-deserved reputation as the home of high quality cinema and moviemaking. But for how long? Osborne is at the top of a government that has slashed arts funding to the bone, axed the UK Film Council and is generally doing a great deal of damage in the cultural arena.
Tory eurosceptics were given a boost when two cabinet ministers publicly declared they would vote to leave the European Union on the basis of the pres...
A Cabinet Minister has claimed Nick Clegg is only opposing childcare reforms to head off a campaign to oust him as Liberal Democrat leader. In an e...
Education Secretary Michael Gove says he would vote to quit the European Union if a referendum was held tomorrow. Gove said life outside the EU wou...
A grandmother killed herself because she was struggling to afford the government's 'bedroom tax', her son has claimed. Stephanie Bottrill left a no...
As the prime minister's only black, working-class advisor moves to a part-time role, amid suggestions he was pushed out by the Etonian clique with which David Cameron has chosen to populate Downing Street, the charges of elitism are only going to get worse. You can be celebrated for writing a hit TV show like Girls even if you get your ethnic mix off-kilter, especially if you take the criticism on the chin and don't duck the issue, but it's far harder when you're running the country.
George Osborne has cracked his first Star Wars joke in a toe-curling display of political punmanship. A slew of hilarity coursed across the interne...
Controversial payday loans company Wonga wants to team up with the government to get the economy growing, a collection of lobbying letters reveal. ...
Following the announcement by Chancellor George Osborne that the next Star Wars film, Episode VII, would be filmed in the UK in 2015, Twitter embarked...
The eagerly-awaited re-boot of the Star Wars franchise, this time under the auspices of Disney, will be made in the UK, George Osborne has announced. ...
Wednesday's Queen's Speech was both a disgrace and disappointment - a failure on both the grounds of what it contained, and what it didn't. What it did contain was a disgraceful pandering to the Ukip vote, in its financially toothless, but socially damaging, provisions on immigration.
David Cameron has said he and Russian president Vladimir Putin share "fundamental aims" in seeking an end to the bloodshed in Syria. Speaking durin...
Feminist icon Germaine Greer says she is in favour of rape victims being named. Speaking on the BBC's Question Time show, Greer said complainants s...
Ukip won no seats at that election, of course. Just as they have won no seats since. Yet this week's Queen's Speech shows that, even without policies, Farage is starting to shape Britain in his image. For some migrants, that Britain will look a little like Guantanamo Bay.
The Government should be developing a strategy to get as many people online as possible. That means doing something much more energetic in the rural areas as well as helping people to improve their digital skills through training and education.
All the pre-briefing about the Queen's Speech suggested that its centrepiece, its pièce de résistance, would be a new immigration bill. Trumpets sounded. The drum roll played. But by the time the Queen had returned to Buckingham Palace and sent the Crown back to the Tower of London, the government confessed that all they had come up with was a set of three measures that they are considering putting into a Bill that will not even be ready for presenting to parliament until the autumn.
Abu Qatada has offered to return to Jordan - provided an anti-torture treaty is ratified. The hate-preaching cleric's barrister made the surprise o...
London Mayor Boris Johnson on Friday defended his proposal for a new hub airport in the Thames Estuary east of London, after an influential House of C...
Israel's ambassador to Britain has criticised a "truly hurtful" Church of Scotland report which questions assumed Biblical support for the Jewish righ...
David Cameron faces a fresh assault on his authority from a group of rebel Tory MPs attempting to force a Commons vote over a referendum on the UK's E...
