Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch have privately indicated that an independent nation could not expect to automatically inherit triple A status

It has become a media consensus that turning a school into an academy will automatically turn it into a more successful school, improve its results. But a closer look at the figures, which the mainstream media has conspicuously failed to carry out, shows a very different story.

The latest Stephen Lawrence case has finished and his murderers are going to be sentenced shortly.  Great, let’s get this over and done with and get it out of the news. It is because of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry that an accusation of racism when committing a crime automatically makes that crime worse than if

Unmarried couples who live together for five years will automatically take their partner's entire estate if they die without a will, under proposals from the Government's law advisers.

Lord Justice Leveson expressed concern after the police admitted there was no evidence News of the World journalists deleted messages from Milly Dowler's phone and said they may have been removed automatically

Voicemail messages on Milly Dowler's mobile phone were probably deleted automatically rather than by the News of The World, Scotland Yard believes.

Christine McGourty of Energy UK said companies were writing to people urging them to shop around but was asked why they were not automatically putting customers on the cheapest deals.

We’ve covered before on Lib Dem Voice the campaign by Lynne Featherstone and others to end the built-in sexism in the rules of Royal succession, whereby men automatically come ahead of women in the line of succession (‘Royal primogeniture’), a cause which has overwhelming public support. One complication is that our monarch is also the

Four ISPs have agreed to censor the internet on behalf of the British government. Sky, BT, TalkTalk and Virgin have all signed up to the agreement to automatically block “adult content”, requiring customers to specifically ask for the block to be removed.  The agreement has come about following a report from the religious pressure group,

A recent turn in "Hackgate" has focused on the level of security clearance given to Andy Coulson. The insinuation is that Number 10 knew that Coulson would not be able to pass the so-called Developed Vetting level (DV) and therefore gave him a lower level. I have no idea what happened in No 10, or whether the allegations made against Coulson automatically disqualified him from obtaining ...