Yes, European countries have to cut public spending in order to put their finances back in shape. But this should not compromise essential public services such as education, health care or tax collection, writes Klaus Heeger of the European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions (CESI). More »

Only exceptions will be buying British is essential to maintaining national security, says minister

Her essential argument is that private, Christian, charity is filling, successfully, the inevitable holes in the State’s welfare provision. Therefore we must do more. Eh? Doesn’t the fact that the holes are being filled mean that the holes are being filled?

All of which has always left me thinking that an essential component of a GAAR is a change to the basis on which tax law is interpreted from a legal (literal) basis to an equitable (common law) basis. This is after he complains about the Duke of Westminster and Partington cases which are, as any

"In retrospect, there are some obvious questions an Icelander living through the past five years might have asked himself. For example: Why should Iceland suddenly be so seemingly essential to global finance? Or: Why do giant countries that invented modern banking suddenly need Icelandic banks to stand between their depositors and their borrowers - to decide who gets capital and who does not? And ...

Imagine you're a Labour activist campaigning on the doorstep and you encounter someone complaining about cuts to their local services - perhaps SureStart, a library, care services or essential disabled care. What do you say? A few months ago most Labour activists would have said they opposed the Tory cuts, and a Labour council or govt would have made some cuts but not to the same proportion o...

Amid the avalanche of articles and obituaries written in tribute to Christopher Hitchens in the wake of his recent passing, we have been reacquainted with the essential condition of western liberalism - moral depravity. Consider the evidence. Hitchens, or ‘The Hitch’, as his close friends liked to refer to him, eagerly hitched (no pun intended) his

Second, the statement doesn’t note that Vodafone fought this for nine years and lost all the way. No, they didn’t. They won all the way to the Court of Appeal. They won at the Special Commissioners, they won in the High Court. The essential question was: Do the CFC rules apply to EU subsidiaries? Special Commissioners said “No”. High Court said

Politicians are complete fuckwits, incapable of ordering paper clips. Therefore we must have much more government. It’s the “therefore” that grates so much.

Michael Rosen at Bookmarks Bookshop Saturday December 10th at 2.30pm Adults £4/£2 concessions Children FREE Booking essential Join us for a great event this Saturday afternoon. A chance for kids of all ages to meet Michael Rosen and hear some of his best loved poems and stories! Join the Children’s Laureate (2007 – 2009) for a half hour show followed by a book signing. And ...