If the government wants initiatives that would support all of industry, investments in education and infrastructure would be a far better use of scarce government resources

You could do a better job, right? Well, of course you could. And now here’s your chance. Reform has launched two new playthings in the run up to the Budget. The first, a tax calculator, lets you work out the...

ALISTAIR Darling is set to announce additional cash for back-to-work programmes after better-than-expected figures for February gave the Chancellor a surprise windfall ahead o

Treasury, officials are delighted by the course of the public finances. Insiders know the level of the deficit, nearly 12 per cent of national income, remains terrible. But economists are pretty sure that this year's borrowing will be better than forecast

UK borrowing could be less than forecast this financial year after better-than-expected February figures and revised January data.

OK. So a young lady called Feng Yangyan, who is no better than she ought to be, hires a handsome fellow with whom to lose her virginity and posts a video of the event on the Chinese internet. The story...

Public sector borrowing was better than expected in February, official figures show, leaving Alistair Darling able to announce an undershoot in borrowing in his Budget next week

“But I’m a relaxed person, so I don’t give a shit what people think.” Perhaps temporary marriage ain’t the best thing ever but as long as a country has women who think and act that way it’s going to get better.

Hamish McRae: Do fewer things but do them better That clearly is how to deal with the deficit, government spending, taxation rates and all the rest. However Hamish doesn’t really go far enough. It isn’t that we should simply be looking at what we already do and vow to do perhaps a little less of it or

One of the defences that Labour types are mustering over Unite is, bascially, that it's better to be funded by a body which represents some two million workers than by Ashcroft type figures who may have their own personal agendas. In which case, the question is: do Charlie Whelan and his coterie really represent the views and interests of Unite's members?  And, in answer, it's ...