This is interesting: Gutfreund did violence to the Wall Street social order — and got himself dubbed the King of Wall Street — when in 1981 he turned Salomon Brothers from a private partnership into Wall Street’s first public corporation, a decision that can now be seen as the first

Over this Michael Ashcroft, Lord Paul thing and non doms. There’s much heat and light being expended upon whether someone who is a non dom (and thus not paying the same taxes on worldwide income as someone who is dom) can be a member of the legislature. OK. And now the research we’d like to see. What is

Lord Martin, the former Commons speaker, has tabled a parliamentary motion that could kill off attempts to reform England's "chilling" libel laws.

Michael Savage observes that Cameron’s denunciation of Brown’s 'weak' premiership recalled Tony Blair’s famous savaging of the ‘weak, weak, weak’ Major government . Here it is: After watching that, I chanced upon an exchange between Blair and Cameron, dated November 2006. Their subject? NHS budget cuts. The first two minutes of the clip reinforce just how co...

Michael Gove has been doing an excellent job challenging the Labour Party over their dependence on the Unite union. But one point that deserves more attention is this Populus poll of Unite members taken a year ago. Among the findings...

The prize for most improved conduct goes to Ed Balls and Michael Gove.

The prize for most improved conduct goes to Ed Balls and Michael Gove.

So, the Tories have declared war on Charlie Whelan and Unite - what Eric Pickles calls the "great untold story of British politics". He was joined by no less than two more shadow frontbenchers - Michael Gove and Theresa Villiers - at a briefing attacking the union's political influence this morning. And that's not all: the Tories have produced a document detailing how Unite is ...

After reading some of the comments about Michael Foot, it seems to me the stance comrades take towards this man is often generational. Those like myself, who remember him mainly as a Minister in the 1976-79, Callagham government, and when Labour Party leader, are far more less forgiving than those who first became aware of Michael earlier in his career, when he was socialist agitator, editor ...

Over at The Guardian website, Michael Moore, Lib Dem spokesman on international development, will be live online and answering readers’ questions about aid and development from 11am today, Tuesday. Here’s how it’s being trailed: Last year, the Liberal Democrats set out their thoughts on international development in a policy paper, which outlined support for the aid