An investigation into the immigration controls security affair last year is holding up a scheme to allow fast-track entry in time for the Olympics

The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for the first Watcher's Council match up of 2012, carved eternally in the akhasic records of cyberspace. The so-called Arab Spring is rapidly turning into an Arab winter. And as this week's winner, Joshuapundit's The New Egypt - Bankrupt And Sinking Fast writes, it's not likely to be a pleasant time in Pyr...

Readers may be interested in an e-petition on the HM Government website which calls on the Government to implement the tax cuts for the poorest which Nick Clegg called for last week.  It says: Please sign this to persuade George Osborne to fast track the Lib Dem policy to increase the income tax threshold to

Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice did a document dump on Operation Fast and Furious to congressional officials late Friday night. One part of this was a series of emails showing Holder was informed of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry’s murder on the day it happened – December 15, 2010 – and that he was informed the weapons used to kill Terry were from Fast...

First there was Fred Goodwin, now there's Stephen Hester. The chief executive of RBS is fast becoming the bête noire of the British banking system, thanks to his roughly £1 million share bonus which, we learn in the Sunday Times (£) this morning, may be topped up with an extra £8 million over the next few years. Little wonder that Iain Duncan Smith admitted on the Marr sho...

"The Tweets must flow", Twitter declared a year ago, and quickly became an instrument of fast-moving revolution across the Arab world, coordinating mass protests in Egypt and sidestepping the state censorship in Syria. But, the microblogging site conceded that the tweets would not flow evenly in every country. The company was accused of censorship by many users and threatened w...

Russia's support for the embattled regime of Bashar al-Assad was increasingly at odds with international opinion ahead of a UN Security Council meeting last night to discuss ways to loosen the Syrian government's hold on power, where thousands have died in an 11-month uprising.

All hail the wondrous Arab Spring! It is one year ago today that the protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square began that ended in the fall of the Mubarak regime. It was fitting that President Obama mentioned it last night, since he had a major role in that 'wave of change', calling for Mubarak's ouster and signalling to the Egyptian military whom now control the country which way to t...

Elections for up to 11 new city mayors are being fast-tracked to November.

Caroline Flint MP, Labour's Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary, responding to a Government statement on the cuts to the Feed-in Tariffs for solar, said: