Former Conservative minister Ann Widdecombe gives her winter fuel allowance away to charity and explains why she thinks the policy should be changed.

As expected, Ed Miliband went on the NHS and it helped deliver him a points victory. Whenever Miliband raises the issue at PMQs, David Cameron’s rather overly macho body language gives away that he knows he is playing on a sticky wicket. The exchanges today were not particularly enlightening but Miliband had the better of them. There was, though, one effective counter-attack from Cameron whe...

Alastair Campbell says he believes the government is shying away from a tough system of press regulation

Karen Buck MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Young People responding to the Barnardo’s Report on the 16-19 Bursary Fund

This India thing: how incompetent do you have to be not to be able to give money away? And that's not the best of it. Sources in Delhi suggested British officials begged India to accept the aid. One commented: 'They said British ministers had spent political capital justifying the aid to their electorate.Yes, indeed: we're all in this together and got to tighten our belts, but we need to fight har...

Tory bosses at Southampton City Council want to take services away from the city's least well off while protecting discounts for the better off, say the city's Labour councillors. They're proposing an amendment to make the budget fairer, to be debated at the Budget setting meeting on Wednesday, 15th February. The council's own reports warn that many of the Tories' proposed...

Europe may be able to hide risks in its banking system, but it cannot make them go away

...here are some posts made on Spectator.co.uk over the weekend: Fraser Nelson says the richest 1 per cent pay 28 per cent of the UK's income tax, so let's not scare them away. James Forsyth says Lords reform is going to dominate the next parliamentary session, but the government will have a tough time passing it. Jonathan Jones reports on two attacks on David Miliband, and finds that pu...

Don't Put Those Scissors Away, Señor Rajoy...

You know, of course, that we’ve The One who tells us that all we need to fill the deficit, all we need to do to make the nasty there is no money tree problems go away, is to hire more taxmen and point them at all those nasty tax dodgers. That he’s paid by the