Ann Widdecombe: Why I have donated my payments

Former Conservative minister Ann Widdecombe gives her winter fuel allowance away to charity and explains why she thinks the policy should be changed.

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.

Network Rail bosses have announced they are going to forego their bonuses and instead, put the money back into rail safety.

This India thing: how incompetent do you have to be not to be able to give money away? And that's not the best of it. Sources in Delhi suggested British officials begged India to accept the aid. One commented: 'They said British ministers had spent political capital justifying the aid to their electorate.Yes, indeed: we're all in this together and got to tighten our belts, but we need to fight har...

Jay Maynard posted a link to an advert from Moveon.org that illustrates how our children will have to pay off the government's debt. The trouble with this argument is that it concentrates on the movement of money instead of the movement of resources. This way of thinking can lead to all sorts of mistakes. If the government borrows a trillion dollars, the argument goes, that is a trillion doll...

Money earmarked for the costs of reorganising the NHS could have saved the jobs of 6,000 nurses, Ed Miliband has claimed.

With little money, a relatively weak on-the-ground campaign organisation and facing ever-rising attacks from fellow conservatives, the former House Speaker has little chance to stage a comeback

So, does India want the UK’s aid or not? If you believe the Indian finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee, the funds are unnecessary, ‘peanuts’ even. The Daily Telegraph reports that British ministers ‘begged’ the Indian government to take the money. The story is likely to garner attention, especially as aid to a growing power like India is a contentious proposition. But ...

More than half of Welsh councils are owed money from private developers which should be going towards community facilities.