Just in case you hadn’t worked it out…

Al-Qaeda-inspired fundamentalist group wanted to send five mail bombs to targets over Christmas 2010

              It was typical of Mr Miliband that he used a good phrase out of time and when it was not true. Mr Cameron used the veto , refusing a UK signature on the proposed new Treaty before Christmas, and then renewed the same veto this week. He has made it crystal clear that

Sadiq Khan MP, Labour's Shadow Justice Secretary, commenting on today’s prison population numbers, said:

It has become abundantly clear since the Christmas break that most of the Parliamentary excitement, apart from that curiosity known as Prime Minister’s Questions, is going to come from the Lords until Easter, and the coming fortnight will be no exception. Days 5 and 6 of the Report Stage of the Welfare Reform Bill will

It was the winter of 1978 and Christmas was about a week away, Big Tom McElwee and myself waited and listened as the screws got closer. On up the wing locks rattled, doors flung open and we listened as bare feet scurried on the corridor as those before us tried to escape the heavier sounding boots of screws.  There was no escape, this was the H-Blocks, we were naked except for a blue towel wr...

What a shame the Christmas literary recommends season is over: otherwise I would have loved to draw this to your attention as quite the funniest book of the year. In The Reactionary Mind political author Corey Robin pretends to analyse the psychopathology which drives conservatives to think and act the way they do. I say "pretends" because obviously the whole thing is a sustained exercis...

On 6th January, the NUT announced that: Following a meeting of a senior committee of the NUT Executive, the Union has agreed to call for further urgent discussions with Government on the future of teachers’ pensions.   When the teacher unions met Department for Education ministers before Christmas, the NUT reserved its position on the

Before the Christmas break, I produced an article on Lib Dem Voice about how the EU veto could and should be the first step of many where our party expresses its individuality in coalition loud and clear. After this blog I saw many opinion articles about where we stood on various issues. The conclusion? Varied.

Institutions draw heavily on pre-Christmas offer of unlimited three-year loans, taking up quarter of total liquidity supplied by Central Bank