The European Commission is considering limiting top bankers' pay to a multiple of junior staff salaries as well as capping bonuses at a fixed ratio to pay, its regulatory chief said yesterday (23 January) during a visit in London. More »

Ministers are to bring to an end an "absurd" benefits regime which has seen husbands with multiple wives able to claim extra welfare payments.

So far ‘multiple choice Mitt’ has got off lightly – despite a relatively liberal record and personifying the 1-per-cent crowd, writes Ed Luce

Shropshire Council is spending a million pounds on 22 new pitches for travellers. A million quid!  For 22 pitches!  That’s 45 and a half grand per pitch!  Multiple exclamation marks!  They’re a sign of a diseased mind! Let’s see how much value for money Shropshire Council are getting … How much would a 56 acre caravan

* Are you installing or repairing electricity and gas supplies? * Are the Building Regulations a help or a hindrance? The Communities and Local Government Committee has decided to carry out an inquiry into the operation of the Building Regulations relating to electrical and gas installation and repairs in dwellings, including houses in multiple occupation. Since 2010, the Government has been revie...

One might (perhaps) expect that less wealthy areas of England would have a higher proportion of children identified as having Special Educational Needs (SEN). Not so, according to this graph on page 103 of the NHS Atlas of Variation in Healthcare (November 2011 edition): Using a measure called Indices of Multiple Deprivation and correlating it with the proportion of primary age children with a SEN...

A recent EUobserver article has highlighted how the 'fiscal compact' deal agreed at last week's EU summit could yet be scuppered by referendums and legal delays in numerous participating countries. The deal is designed to extend EU control over the tax and spend policies of the elected national governments of its member countries by transfering greater power over national budgets to...

Presented for comment. Confirmed by multiple sources, this is the very latest from OMB to the DoD regarding aircraft carriers and FY13: The navy has proposed an additional 2-year schedule slip to its newest carrier, CVN79, which would extend the funding profile from the original 8 yrs to 12 yrs. The Navy would initiate the 4-yr construction process in FY15 after 8 years of advance procurement acti...

A Doncaster man in court on multiple charges of burglary has had his case adjourned for at least 18 months while the judge looks into claims he was acting on ‘credible evidence’ that the houses he burgled were hiding weapons of mass destruction. Paul Biggs, 32, has several prior convictions and is looking at a lengthy jail term if found guilty of the 4 counts of burglary. But his defen...

Newton, Maxwell, Einstein and Tim Blair have described the universe. Blair's Law is "the ongoing process by which the world's multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force". On the 15th November, the Guardian gave over its comment pages to people from Occupy London. Most of the resulting articles were produced by earnest but weak-minded hippies. Two of the articles made the hip...