Ministers claim that Boris Johnson’s mayoralty has been an effective trial for elected police commissioners. If so they have been shown to fail in the light of further hackergate revelations and the plans should be ditched.
Blue Labour told us many valuable things – but Maurice Glasman is now straying onto dangerous territory, writes Left Foot Forward’s Daniel Elton.
The Right’s reaction to the News International, Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal has been, bizarrely, to rail against the BBC, reports Daniel Elton.
The benefits cap was wonderful politics for George Osborne – but now the politics is turning sticky as the reality of its impcat hits home.
Thrice-married Rupert Murdoch, who brought Page Three girls to the UK media and whose newspapers attack international aid, is a papal knight.
Left Foot Forward’s Daniel Elton reports on how the coalition’s higher education market ended up inflating prices and introduced pressures to increase government debt.
The momentum behind the phone hacking scandal is starting to spread from the News of The World and infect other tectacles of Rupert Murdoch’s empire.
How the UK taxpayer is underwriting military sales to an autocratic middle eastern regime
If the Coulson arrest goes ahead, we will know that the Prime Minister failed. The question is how badly. This is what we need to know.
The government and the unions are scrapping over public opinion, and so it seems worth looking at the short-term and long-term trends on polling on the issues.
