Senior civil servants are being sent to "leadership school" amid concerns they do not have the skills to run major projects like the Olympics, welfare reforms and new high-speed trains.

Unemployment is falling in the US, where wealth-creators are applauded, rather than denounced, writes Boris Johnson.

         Yesterday I rang the Leader of Wokingham Borough Council to check they had all they needed from central government and were able to keep the main roads gritted and open. I was happy to learn that they planned a couple of gritting runs on the main roads.         I got up early this morning

Energy Secretary to learn tomorrow whether he and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce will face criminal charges over allegations he asked her to take speeding points on his behalf.

Labour MP Kate Green says she's "disturbed" to learn that a beer named Top Totty is on sale in the Palace of Westminster with "a picture of a nearly naked woman on the tap".

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...

To mark this year's Holocaust Memorial Day, John Denham MP has signed a pledge to 'speak up and speak out' about the language of hatred. 27th January is Holocaust Memorial Day, which is held to provide everyone with an opportunity to learn from the lessons of the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Dafur. The Holocaust Memorial Day Tr...

What Scots might learn from Guernsey's experience

The Obama presidency has looked in trouble for more than a year. The Republicans have blocked any attempt he makes to get some growth back into the economy and his recent actions and attitude have been that of a beaten man. He was getting blasted with much the same conservative rhetoric as Ed Miliband has

A Romney-seeking missile. That was what much of Barack Obama's State of the Union Address amounted to last night. He didn't mention the Republican presidential challenger by name, of course. That would have been too obvious. But he did dwell on those sorts of issues around taxation and jobs — including his ‘Buffett Rule’, by which, we learn, millionaires should pay at l...