Yvette Cooper MP, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, commenting on HMIC figures showing that 9 out of every 10 police officers lost were from the frontline, said:

Results in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri will give a signal about Republican front-runner’s prospects for securing the nomination

Former foreign secretary says he would be interested in returning to front bench – ‘leaving office was like the end of a love affair’

There a brand spanking new poll out today by the Washington Post and ABC News supposedly showing President Obama topping GOP front runner Mitt Romney nationally. It claims that 55% of the respondents dislike what they're hearing from the GOP candidates in general, that 57% approved of what they heard from President Obama's State of the Union address and that he tops Romney in a general e...

To mark the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's ascension to the throne in 1952, here is the leader that appeared sixty years ago on our front cover. It was written under the editorship of Wilson Harris, who had been in the position nearly 20 years. Queen and Nation, 15 February 1952 The slow days are dragging their sad length along to the climax, when the mortal remains of King George V...

Am I dicing with death every morning and evening? The Times would say so. I cycle to work, and, for the past two days, the Times has given over its front page to a campaign on cycling safety. The campaign is in most respects commendable — I like the specific proposals — but it emphasises the urgency of the issue by giving a very grim impression of the risks that cyclists face. ‘B...

In the party horserace, 2011 was the year of not much happening. In fact, it was a year of exceptional boringness on that front, punctuated only by a small and quite possibly transient boost for the Tories after the EU veto in December. But behind that headline of ‘no change’, there were interesting shifts on other fronts.

Ed Miliband will open a new front in his war on excessive City pay on Friday, as he calls for curbs on bonuses at banks that have not required government bail-outs.

I am in Paris, staying with occasional Samizdatista Antoine Clarke. Photoed out of the Eurostar on the way, the M25 bridge over the Thames: When I got there and after I'd settled in, we went out for supper and then went walking for a while. Arc de Triomphe: Old internal customs duties office, which ceased functioning in 1943: Antoine on Twitter this morning: Ice cold in Paris …...

Former Foreign Secretary returns to political front line with an attack on his brother Ed's Labour Party, saying it needs "restless rethinking" of its policies if it is to return to power.