Strategy group recommends matching patients’ genes with their treatment

Tristram Hunt, the historian and Labour MP, has written a brilliant rebuttal to my piece in the Telegraph last week, in which I said that capitalism is hardwired in Britain’s DNA. Socialism, he says, is also hardwired into our country’s mindset. Writing for Comment Is Free, he says: ‘There is another story of Britishness a long way from the template of Cameron and the Spectator. ...

The Prime Minister knows that the free-market system is hard-wired into our national DNA, says Fraser Nelson.

This might seem a very odd question. A pro-EU position is part of the party's internationalist DNA. Listen to any EU-related speech by the likes of Nick Clegg or Paddy Ashdown and heartfelt support for the European project is apparent. The Liberal Democrats have also made a virtue of reigning in Tory euroscepticism, for example rejecting a call for repatriation of powers in the Coalition Agre...

SNP leader Alex Salmond has issued an independence rallying call, as he addressed his party's first conference since its landslide election win.

The Home Secretary's plan to retain the DNA of people charged but then cleared of offences may breach human rights law, a group of MPs and peers have said.

Head of Scotland Yard aims to use technology such as DNA detection and facial recognition software to drive crime rates down

In 1989 Troy Davis, a young black man in Georgia in the USA, was arrested on a charge of shooting a police officer. He was convicted and sentenced to death on the basis of evidence coerced out of several witnesses who have since recanted their testimony.  No murder weapon was ever found, no DNA evidence or fingerprints tie him to the crime, and other witnesses have since said the murder was c...

The report, launched at a meeting in London, calls on policymakers to address the confusion about the fair use of DNA patent tests

The Home Office rejects claims by civil liberties campaigners that it has broken a pledge to destroy the DNA profiles of more than a million innocent people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.