The Prime Minister added: “In the spirit of this healthy competition with France… If France goes for a financial transactions tax, then the door will be open and we will be able to welcome many French banks to the United Kingdom and we’ll expand our economy that way.” “If France wants to be so mindbogglingly

Well, last week Liberal Democrats had a good week in the House of Lords. Our peers played leading roles in attempts to mitigate the more regressive effects of the benefit changes. And on Thursday, with Labour supporting us effectively for once, Shirley Williams led our peers to a signal victory on the NHS Bill. There

MPs and aides dining in the House of Commons have complained about soup bowls, the cost of beer and arrangement of their chips.

The numbers of working Europeans between 55 and 64 has leapt by 10% in the last decade, say statistics published today on the launch of the EU’s year of active and healthy ageing. More »

             Many bloggers to this site are delightfully cynical  about politics, and sceptical about many politicians. That is healthy in a democracy. Nor is it my job to act as shop steward for MPs. I am not a Shop Steward, and my colleagues would not welcome having one. If an MP reaches the point

Scottish Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader and MP for East Dunbartonshire Jo Swinson, has again urged advertisers and retailers to use models covering a diverse of sizes, ages and shapes in their advertising and media campaigns to reflect the reality of different body shapes and to promote healthy body image. Co-founder of the Campaign for Body Confidence, Jo is

Far from paying healthy workers to quit jobs, policymakers should look at introducing bigger tax incentives to keep older people employed

More than a thousand supermarkets across England offering discounts on healthy ingredients such as fruit and vegetables.

Goodbye 2011 and hello 2012! HAPPY NEW YEAR! (Video below) In many ways it will be a pleasure to say goodbye to 2011 and to ring in 2012 with sincere hopes and wishes for a happy and healthy new year for my family and for all people around the world. Whether this will become the reality remains to be seen, but both personally and globally this has been a year that contained many successes and acco...

Welcome to the last Watcher's Council posting of 2011! We'd like to wish all of you a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.Be good on Saturday night, and if you can't be good,be careful! Seeing as 2012 is just around the corner, I polled some of our illustrious Council members to get their picks on some of the most notable people and events of the past year: The Noisy Room: Person...