...here are some posts made on Spectator.co.uk over the weekend: Fraser Nelson says the richest 1 per cent pay 28 per cent of the UK's income tax, so let's not scare them away. James Forsyth says Lords reform is going to dominate the next parliamentary session, but the government will have a tough time passing it. Jonathan Jones reports on two attacks on David Miliband, and finds that pu...

House of Lords reform is one of those subjects that make most people’s eyes glaze over. But it is going to dominate the next parliamentary session. The Queen’s Speech will include a bill for elections in 2015 for 20 per cent of the seats in the Lords using a ‘Proportional Representation’ voting system. This bill will take an age to get through the Commons, where it has to s...

The eurozone crisis is set to dominate an EU summit in Brussels, as leaders place the emphasis on growth and "smart" budget discipline.

Whilst the Tory led coalition government are serving the NHS on a platter to the private health care industry, and taking a hatchet to the welfare state, they are also channelling ever greater sums of money to the corporations which dominate the retail trade.  Some of the most 'successful' UK businesses in this field have the tax payer to thank for their profit m...

Scottish independence: Wales and Northern Ireland make unity plea Break-up of UK would lead to an English-dominated Westminster parliament, say first ministers of other home nations The problem with this is? As England would have 90 odd % of the nation’s population why shouldn’t it dominate the legislature?

The economy is likely to dominate politics in the North East and Cumbria in 2012 but there will also be elections, Olympic dreams and speculation about David Miliband's future.

As if we have not said it enough times already (and faced all manner of Xenophobe accusations from politically inept squirts) the leaders of Germany and France are using the European Union and Euro currency as their own control tool to dominate and control Europe.   They are pressing ahead with their aim to tax all banking transactions as French Minister for European Affairs Jean Leonetti sta...

In May, we were nearly wiped off from the Scottish Parliamentary map. I got it. I understood why that happened. But equally I am convinced that liberalism, not nationalism, will dominate Scottish political landscape in the years ahead.  Our values are embedded in a rich seem of Scottish history and endure despite political setbacks. Our

It’s been an eventful , if worrying afternoon in the Middle East. First, the initial Egyptian election results confirm the expectation that Islamist parties would dominate the first round of elections - they've taken more than 50 per cent of the vote. Douglas Murray wrote a Spectator cover story two weeks ago on how the Arab Spring is turning to winter; it is required reading....

Discussion of new moves against Iran is expected to dominate a meeting of EU foreign ministers, in the wake of the UK's expulsion of Iranian diplomats.