Who are Reform’s biggest donors?
Reform UK’s donors this quarter include crypto investor Christopher Harborne, the owner of the Daily Mail’s wife and Sotheby’s
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New energy minister questions climate change targets
Tory MP Michael Fallon has replaced John Hayes as energy minister.
Last week Fallon questioned whether “specific targets, for example on…climate change, are the best way of focusing our spending where it is most needed”.
Human rights groups hit out at Liam Fox for Bahrain summit
Liam Fox has been criticised by human rights groups for his decision to appear at a conference in Bahrain designed to improve the country’s image.
Dr Beeching may be dead but his spirit lives on
The government is showing the same type of contempt for the UK’s railways and communities that Beeching did all those years ago.
Five party leaders who never were
With David Miliband, the man once tipped to lead the Labour Party, resigning from frontline politics to take up a job in America, Left Foot Forward has looked at five leaders who came close but never quite made it to the top.
Cameron’s corporation tax cop out
Businesses and politicians across Northern Ireland have united in condemning David Cameron’s decision to delay an announcement on devolving powers over corporation tax to Stormont.
‘Peace’ to Xi Jinping may be the authoritarian status quo
Since his inaugural address as President of China, analysts and interested parties have been decoding the message that Xi Jinping brings and what change, if any, can be expected in China.
Video: How has marriage equality affected your marriage?
Think Progress, our sister site in the US, has made a short video in which they ask anti-gay National Organize for Marriage protesters how same sex marriage has affected their own marriage.
“Social justice is what gets me up in the morning”. Goodbye, David Miliband
David Miliband has stepped down as MP for South Shields to work for an international aid charity, ending a twenty year career in politics.
The belief that migrants are a drain on the economy is like the popularity of Boris Johnson, homeopathy or conspiracy theories
Britain has an immigration problem – but not of the sort generally supposed.
The facts show that immigrants are a net fiscal benefit rather than a cost, and that immigration is, except for a small negative effect at the bottom end, a net positive for wages (pdf) and for economic growth (pdf).
The problem is the public do not believe the evidence.
UK GDP down 0.3 per cent
UK GDP fell by 0.3 per cent between the third and fourth quarters of 2012, according to the latest quarterly national accounts from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).