An especially interesting comparison is between the United States and the United Kingdom, which implemented a package of austerity measures in 2010. That’s interesting, don’t you think? For I’m rather wondering, just where is that austerity. As far as I know the budget deficit is still about 10% of GDP isn’t it? The lab experiment

This is the title of a poor quality piece in The Guardian. It's mainly a profile of Leanne Wood, apparently the favourite to take over the leadership of Plaid Cymru (who knew?). A "proud republican", she views Wales's economic development as typical of other colonial/extractive economies like those in Latin America. Her "Greenprint" for the south Wales valleys sets out a vision of "food ...

Fewer young people from Northern Ireland apply to go to universities across the United Kingdom in September 2012.

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

Labour leader Ed Miliband has pledged that his party will fight "toe to toe" with Scotland's First Minister before the vote on independence.

Ed Miliband will make the case for keeping Scotland as part of the United Kingdom in a speech in Glasgow on Monday. Miliband is expected to describe the “progressive” argument for rejecting independence in what the party billed as a major speech on the constitution. He’s not listed there as telling them the truth. That

Alex Salmond plans to break up the United Kingdom by asking Scottish voters a "loaded and biased" question in favour of independence, elections expert Professor Robert Cialdini said today.

So now we have it: the ten words which Alex Salmond hopes will end Scotland’s 300-year-old membership of the United Kingdom. ‘Do you agree that Scotland should become an independent country?’ The First Minister unveiled his consultation paper on an independence referendum today and, to the surprise of many, actually did what David Cameron has been asking of him. He came out with ...

Mr John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con): May we have an early debate on who speaks for England and who should make decisions for England in an increasingly devolved United Kingdom? The Leader of the House of Commons (Sir George Young): I understand my right hon. Friend’s concern. We announced on Tuesday the establishment of the West

The Scottish Parliament will today symbolically vote in favour of leaving the United Kingdom despite opposition parties accusing Alex Salmond of trying to engineer a "grubby little fix" instead of a fair referendum.