The United States is behind the wall of secrecy surrounding global trade talks to combat counterfeiting, say EU policy sources, who claim that American officials are refusing to let their European counterparts publish the draft agreement online.

Long piece in the New York Times, summarised in The Guardian. It claims to highlight Scotland Yard's shortcomings, and gives fresh examples of phone hacking behind News of the World stories. Coulson is characterised as a driving editor - yet claims he was unaware of any phone hacking. Max Clifford also makes an entertaining cameo appearance. A good read and a story which shouldn't be all...

Allies of Gordon Brown rally behind the former prime minister, describing criticism of him in Tony Blair's memoirs as "unfair" and "one-sided".

The personalities and policies behind the Labour contest

GIVING an unusual interview from behind the wheel of a small yellow Lada, Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin has hinted he will return to the presidency in 2012 for six mor

GIVING an unusual interview from behind the wheel of a small yellow Lada, Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin has hinted he will return to the presidency in 2012 for six mor

Behind the scenes, is it business as usual for Big Brother state?

Whilst Ed Balls descends into bellicose self-caricature, Andy Burnham, the quiet man of this campaign, has written an incendiary article for the Guardian. It is subtly constructed: behind the veneer of his folksy idiom, Burnham proclaims a self-conscious radicalism. He has sharpened some of the ideas expressed so loosely in his pamphlet Aspirational Socialism. He advocates the adoption of land val...

I’ve just read an little article in the Asian Voice paper about Tony Blair being the biggest beneficairy of the Labour governments removal of the cap for charitable payroll giving tax relief. I can’t link to the piece as it isn’t online or it could be behind a paywall. I can’t remember which but I

COUNCIL chiefs today admitted that lessons have to be learned from the collapse of the company behind a key Homecoming event - as it emerged that more than 100 firms are still