Alan Greenspan will offer his most sophisticated defence so far of his role as chairman of the Federal Reserve in the build up to the 2008 financial meltdown, hitting back at claims that the Fed's low short-term interest rates were the cause of the US housing bubble

Westminster City Council has spent over £250,000 keeping the Grade II listed Marylebone Library closed for the past three years, according to figures obtained by Labour Councillors. Over the last three years since the Marylebone Road library has been closed, the cost of the rates on the empty building add up to £253,000, as follows: * 2009/10 - £124,000 * 2008/09 - £78,000 ...

Three activists from Swords into Ploughshares have been found NOT GUILTY of all charges laid against them in a New Zealand court for their action breaking into the Waihopai spybase in Blenheim in April 2008, and deflating one of the two domes covering the satellite dishes which capture intelligence data. As Bryan Law’s blog reports: The Jury

Crewe and Nantwich is only one of almost 650 constituencies on the political map of the UK. But the by-election there in May 2008 holds important lessons for the upcoming General Election. This is a review of the campaign, and which tactics might feature again over the next couple of months

So, Lehman’s is spiralling the plug hole and various people are trying to get various politicians to intervene: During the bank’s final hours in September 2008, Fuld tried desperately to strike a rescue deal with Barclays but the FSA would not allow the British bank an exemption from seeking time-consuming shareholder approval. The

By Darinka Aleksic, from Labour List In 2008, the passage of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill through Parliament saw the most serious attempt to restrict abortion rights in Britain in the last two decades. Since then, apart from occasional shrieking headlines about levels of repeat abortions among teenage girls, abortion has generally fallen off the

By Stuart Lansley, from Labour List, this is an abridged version of a more substantial article in the Spring edition of Soundings. Although global imbalances, excessive bank leveraging and reckless financial risk-taking helped trigger the meltdown of 2008/09, the crisis has it roots in the rising income and wealth gap, and the way a new domestic

Blaney even takes his charges on firearms training courses. In 2008 he took activists and young Conservatives to the Blue Ridge Arsenal in Virginia, reporting that the feeling of "hot brass, gun recoil and smell of gunpowder was incredible". There...

Click the image above to launch full item VT in BBC Media Player David Cameron's claim to have only discovered that Baron Ashcroft of Belize was still a non-dom and had not taken permanent residence, opting instead for the new "long term" fudge introduced in 2008 i.e. eight years after his commitment, followed hot on the heels of William Hague's assertion that he had only become aware of...

The ten companies holding the largest number of surplus emission allowances under the EU's cap-and-trade system stand to make a profit of 3.2 billion euros in the 2008-2012 trading period, according to a new analysis of EU data.