Benefits are not an easy subject to get your head around: we have a benefits system with enough acronyms, assessments, taper rates and tax credits to make your head spin. That’s why this Government is finally undertaking a hugely important and long-overdue reform of benefits. Universal Credit will replace the complicated mix of tax credits,

It seems most of the public agrees with the need to improve our schools. A YouGov poll out this morning shows that 53 per cent think education standards have deteriorated over the past 10 years, while only 12 per cent think they've got better. 48 per cent think exams are too easy; just 28 per cent say they’re ‘about right’ and a mere 3 per cent think they're too hard. A...

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Undercover officers are not banned from having sex with targets because it would give those they are infiltrating an easy way to "test" them, police chiefs and inspectors said.

I swore blind that I would not get drawn into what promises to be a long running battle over Scottish independence but Simon Hughes’ call for an English Parliament to answer the West Lothian Question has prompted me to pen this piece. Scottish Nationalists wrongly claim that there is an easy solution to the West

Europe’s motorcycle industry is having a tough ride in the current economic times despite being touted as one of the solutions to road congestion and pollution. More »

It's a relatively easy argument to make that when Ed Balls was loudly opposing the cuts, Labour's positioning in the polls was higher. Since his speech to the Fabians laying out the more complicated position - the fall has been relentless. But I fear the problem is broader than that: Labour just doesn't have a coherent message. The more incoherent the party gets the more voters get ...

Teenagers are arriving at university unprepared for rigorous academic courses as some A-levels have become "easy", senior advisers to the government have warned.

One of the more absurd stories I’ve seen this week is from Aintree in Liverpool. It’s a bite-size exemplum of local politicians slavish desire of media attention — and of the news media’s slack-jawed credulity when presented with a too-easy headline. Especially one that allows them to print the word ‘NUTTERS’. You can read the

Thought for the day: The president must go to Congress with hat in hand in order to merge the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the Small Business Administration, but he can embroil this country in expensive, bloody, and...