The government has said it will not allow any more time to debate a bill on moving UK time forward by an hour, despite calls from MPs on all sides of the House for it to do so.

The Prime Minister has risked another rift with France by taking aim at its 35-hour working week, claiming the policy makes it less economically successful.

While most of you were watching the Pats/Ravens game last evening, Sal and Eagle1 were kind enough to have me on their Internet Radio Show "Midrats" for the full hour.  We cover a lot of ground here, and I hope you find the dialogue useful. Bryan McGrath

Private owners of capital used the state to force peasants – who, in the 14th century, worked about a quarter of hours that the average person does now – to work 12 hour days in factories. We’re supposed to believe that a peasant working in a subsistence economy works 10 hours a week are we?

MPs in the Commons are debating a bill proposing to move the UK's clocks forward by an hour for a three-year trial period.

A Conservative MP is bidding for his county to move back 15 minutes in time, as MPs will debate a bill to move British clocks forward by an hour to go in line with most of western Europe.

Drudge has the story... Newt Gingrich's ex wife Marianne apparently has done a tell-all two hour interview with ABC's Brian Ross about her marriage to Gingrich. That would be wife number two, the one he was having an affair with when wife number one had cancer and the one he ditched while he was having an affair with number three, Callista. Talk about flip flopping! You had to know all a...

More than 10,000 pubs and clubs will stop serving after midnight thanks to the Government's drive to end 24 hour drinking.

Sheffield South East Labour MP, Clive Betts, is backing a Bill to get the Government to look at the benefits of moving the clocks forward by one hour throughout the year. The Daylight Saving Bill will receive its Third Reading in the House of Commons this Friday. The bill calls on the Government to conduct a comprehensive review of the costs and benefits of putting clocks forward an hour throughou...

Last night Mitt Romney became the first Republican, excluding sitting Presidents, to win both the Iowa Caucuses and the New Hampshire Primary. And unlike in Iowa last week, his supporters didn't have to wait until the next day to start celebrating. The exit polls were enough for Romney to be declared the winner within an hour of the voting booths closing. And now, with 95 per cent of the vote...