Labour leader Ed Miliband has urged David Cameron to drop plans to overhaul the NHS, branding the government's flagship Health and Social Care Bill a "complete disaster".

There was chaos at Buckingham Palace this morning after the Queen was informed that all her bank accounts at Coutts & Co, a wholly owned subsidary of the Royal Bank of Scotland, have been frozen in retaliation for the divestiture of Fred Goodwin. In a tersely worded letter posted on the railings at Buckingham Palace, the bank informed Her Majesty that due to a complete breakdown of trust i...

Shift to training and advisory role to start in middle of next year and be complete by the end of 2013, says defence secretary

The new chairman of the Press Complaints Commission has called for a complete overhaul of the organisation.

The man appointed to oversee the government's counter-terrorism laws criticises plans to allow ministers to order some cases involving allegations against the intelligence services to be held in complete secrecy.

Rand Simberg is not a happy man: "....here’s the problem with the comparison between creationism and climate skepticism. Evolution is a scientific theory. It is the one that best fits all of the available evidence. There is also a creationist theory that fits all the evidence: God did it, complete with evidence that evolution occurred. The problem with the latter theory is that, while it...

...whose territory was demarcated with the heads of its enemies, Wa state in Myanmar is now a mini-China, complete with central committee (under Secretary Comrade Bao Youxiang) and a home-made version of the main CCTV nightly news bulletin. I suppose...

The above picture is of the Church of Jesus Christ the Adolescent, which is found on the top of a hill in Nazareth in Israel. It presumably gets its name from the fact that Jesus Christ did apparently spend his teenage years in Nazareth. I post the picture merely because everyone I have shown the picture too so far has laughed at the name. Thinking about it more, though, asking people to complete ...

It is refreshing to see an authentic left wing, progressive voice appearing on Question Time for a change. Mark Steel, comedian, writer and activist, will be appearing on this week’s show from Plymouth on a panel with the vile Melanie Philips, the Labour Party careerist and Blairite David Lammy, and two complete nonentities from the

An efficient tax system is: 1. Comprehensive – in other words, it is broad based; 2. Complete – with as few loopholes as possible; 3. Comprehensible – it is as certain as is reasonably possible; 4. Compassionate – it takes into account the capacity to pay; 5. Compact – it is written as straightforwardly as