Here in the UK, a toilet is a necessity that we are lucky enough to take for granted – a subject for humour, or something we’d prefer not to talk about. Yet for billions of people around the world, sanitation is a serious issue. With a staggering 2.6 billion – nearly 40% of the world’s

Liberal Democrat MP Don Foster dressed as a spy to get into the Conservative conference to find out what they think of their coalition colleagues.

Leading Liberal Democrat MP Don Foster has suggested that BBC licence fee money should be used to promote broadband take-up so businesses find infrastructure improvements more commercially attractive

If you can judge a party’s mood by the number of bad jokes it tells, then the Liberal Democrats are in better form than last year. Their rally to open conference was characterised by a string of appalling gags. George Osborne was a particular target with both Don Foster and Sarah Teather trying to raise a laugh at his expense. However, several of Teather’s jokes, which moved into real ...

Simon Hughes, Tim Farron and Don Foster have written to Rupert Murdoch about the proposed take-over of BSkyB by News International. They ask Murdoch to respond to public opinion by changing his commercial strategy in the UK: withdrawing his News Corporation bid for BSkyB and concentrating all his efforts on cleaning up News International. The

Liberal Democrat MP Don Foster said his party could vote with Labour against coalition colleagues to try and block the News Corp takeover of BSkyB.

Chris Grayling, Douglas Alexander and Don Foster are asked to justify bankers' bonuses and what the government should do about them.

Liberal Democrat MP Don Foster admits there is no clarity on the party's position on tuition fees.

Don Foster is asked why Liberal Democrats made election pledges about tuition fees in a debate with Aaron Porter from the NUS.

The BBC is at the centre of a continuous storm of criticism over everything from pay to politics. Some of it is even contradictory – it sometimes seems like everyone on every side of every debate is convinced that the BBC is biased in favour of the other side. This is a symptom of the