The UK has a terrible record with case-after-case of people fleeing torture, arrest, ‘honour’ killing and the like needing campaigning and years of expensive legal effort to force the Home Office to grant them sanctuary.
The Post Office is to receive £1,280 million to provide new financial services and to improve financial inclusion through credit unions and weekly budget plans.
As the person responsible for drafting the Lib Dem manifesto I wanted to respond to the report on our proposal to raise the income tax threshold to £10,000.
Most people don’t much like hunting, so the more they complain about their lost rights, the more opposition to their cause hardens.
Tonight at 8:30pm people, businesses and iconic buildings around the world will switch off their lights in support for WWF’s Earth Hour. Watch the campaign video.
On balance, it is probably fair to say the 2010 Budget will be welcomed by most as a small business-friendly one, although the devil will be in the detail.
Liam Fox’s paid-for trips to Sri Lanka, revealed by LFF last month, are reported today in a BBC report into MPs’ overseas trips paid for by foreign governments.
Recent events leave us in no doubt that the parliamentary rulebook is in need of drastic reform. The question is, what form should it take?
The mainstream media give a select group of think tanks and corporate interests air space in the name of balance. The blogosphere can help rubbish much of the bias.
A similar mechanism was at work in the build-up to the great depression of the 1930s, with a great surge in the concentration of wealth in the United States.
