Carers are to be given legal rights under government plans to increase the assistance available to the six million Britons who look after other people.

Made a profit. CBO estimates that the net cost to the federal government of the TARP’s transactions, including the cost of grants for mortgage programs that have not been made yet, will amount to $34 billion. CBO’s analysis reflects transactions completed, outstanding, and anticipated as of November 15, 2011. That cost stems largely from assistance

The purpose of mediocratic ideology is the same as that of Marxist ideology: to make life impossible for genuine intellectuals, i.e. those who might generate real cultural progress. To mask the issue, an ersatz system of high culture has been built up, designed to perpetuate and reinforce the ideology, and to ensure no assistance is given to those whom the system carefully excludes.• What does i...

The US may challenge the remedies if it feels that European countries have not made sufficient changes to the financial assistance programmes

Governments made only modest agreements to make their overseas assistance to poor countries more effective

Athens will need technical assistance to ramp up its capacity to absorb EU regional funding, the Greek Minister for Development, Competition and Shipping, has told the European Parliament. More »

By now, you have likely heard. The commanding officer of the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) died suddenly Nov. 8 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Capt. Tushar Tembe was departing the ship at approximately 10 a.m. when he collapsed. The ship's medical response team provided immediate medical assistance until Tembe could be transported to Bons Secours Maryview Medical C...

The purpose of mediocratic ideology is the same as that of Marxist ideology: to make life impossible for genuine intellectuals, i.e. those who might generate real cultural progress. To mask the issue, an ersatz system of high culture has been built up, designed to perpetuate and reinforce the ideology, and to ensure no assistance is given to those whom the system carefully excludes.• There is a

Yes, once again the Democrats are banking on people's abject stupidity.After all, they haven't much else to run on. And needless to say,the compliant media are doing their very best to help spread The Narrative. Here's the president, talking to sympathetic ex-Clinton apparatchnik turned talking head George Stephanopoulos: “I’m the first one to acknowledge that the relati...

Good luck to members of Barnet UNISON taking strike action today in their continuing dispute about the identity of their employer ( With characteristic imagination, Barnet branch members are putting an additional demand on the Council in connection with today's strike. At 10.30 am a number of strikers will be taking a coach trip across the borough in order to provide help and assistance to a l...