The government is looking for 12 run down High Streets in England to share £1m as a part of plans proposed by TV retail guru Mary Portas.

Pressure to keep bank’s bonus pool below £500m this year compared to nearly £1bn 12 months ago

A financial report released today by Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed the organisation has amassed an operating surplus of £310 million over the last 9 months. In the report (Operational and Financial performance and investment programme reports – third quarter 2011/12) TfL predicts an annual operating surplus of £338 million by the end of the financial year. TfL's o...

Home Office is replacing previous two-year visa with a 12-month one that will allow exceptional students to remain once their studies have ended

Today, at 12.30pm the welfare reform bill will return to the Hous. It is vast and impenetrable - most of the ministers arguing for it have very little understanding of the detail within it. Yes, that's right, they don't understand the details or effects of their own policies.

I am very unhappy with the number of female Lib Dem MPs. 7 out of 57 is not good enough and we need to improve. The leadership programme which assists those from underrepresented groups to become candidates will hopefully help. 7/57 = 12.3%. So, less than an eighth of our MPs are women. The Conservatives

Yesterday's YouGov poll for the Sunday Times had a few interesting nuggets buried beneath the top line (Lab 40, Con 39, as it happens). Here are some of the most topical findings: 1) Clegg’s tax proposals are very popular. 83 per cent support the Lib Dems’ policy of increasing the personal allowance to £10,000. This might explain the 12-point jump in Nick Clegg’s net ap...

The Left is retreating around the world. The Great Recession has produced a landscape so favourable for right-wing parties, their opponents can only feel sorry for themselves as they watch support drain away from them. At least, so goes the popular narrative. But the last 12 months don’t bear out the argument that the Left is on a losing streak.

The IRS sent my tax forms back! AGAIN! I guess it was because of my response to the question : "List all dependents?" I replied -"12 million illegal immigrants;"3 million crack heads; "42 million unemployable people on food stamps, "2 million people in over 243 prisons; "Half of Mexico ; and "535 fools in the U.S. House and Senate.” Apparently, this was NOT an acceptable answer. Cartoon sour...

To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, here's a piece Sam Schulman wrote for The Spectator 12 years ago, on his fear that ‘Holocaustology’ will create a new form of anti-Semitism. Did six million die for this?, Sam Schulman, 1 January 2000 The Holocaust dominated the moral imagination of the 20th century. Before the rise of Hitler, anti-Semitism was a parochial concern of the Jews; after...