
Coalition deserves praise for leading the world on aid transparency
The Coalition Government is set to lead the international movement for aid transparency, acting on their promises to publish all information on aid spending.

The Coalition Government is set to lead the international movement for aid transparency, acting on their promises to publish all information on aid spending.

The Coalition should not kid itself that making Britons swallow painful medicine will ward off the financial markets – austerity measures do not inevitably lead to deficit reduction.

On China, is Mr Cameron taking over the mantle from Mrs Thatcher, when she annoyed the country over negotiations on the handover of Hong Kong?

If the Tories follow their instincts, they will try to scupper, or heavily water down, everything in Europe while the Lib Dems would do the opposite: division and weakness beckons.

The Welsh Assembly elections are a year away. The Labour Party in Wales is taking stock after the general election and preparing its manifesto and campaign for next May.

There was much to welcome in David Cameron’s first major speech as Prime Minster on industrial policy. But his policies must now catch up with his vision.

African governments raise 11 times more money from taxation than they receive in overseas aid. This fact, published Sunday, puts the aid debate into focus.

Because of internalised homophobia many LGBT refugees stay underground and don’t try and regularise their situation until they become desperate.

Today’s cuts were meant to focus on eliminating waste and low priority spending areas. So why was £233m cut from the Centre for Medical Research and Innovation?

Without wide changes in party leadership, membership and party procedures, electoral reform will not result in our representatives being any more proportionate.