A former chief economist at the Cabinet Office has accused the Chancellor of causing lasting social and economic damage to the UK because of a refusal to ease austerity in the short-term.

It's all about 'standing up'. If employees are late to this meeting, often called a "daily scrum," they sometimes must sing a song like "I'm a Little Teapot," do a lap around the office building or pay a small fine,...

Home Office is replacing previous two-year visa with a 12-month one that will allow exceptional students to remain once their studies have ended

The answers are not really and I sure hope not! Another question? Is the United States in a liquidity trap that's loosely defined as enormous amounts of cash injected into the system by the Fed to lower interest rates while not having the desired effect of stimulating economic growth? 2012 GDP forecast (Congressional Budget Office): 2.0% reduced from a forecast of 2.7%. 2012 unemployment rate...

I am in Paris, staying with occasional Samizdatista Antoine Clarke. Photoed out of the Eurostar on the way, the M25 bridge over the Thames: When I got there and after I'd settled in, we went out for supper and then went walking for a while. Arc de Triomphe: Old internal customs duties office, which ceased functioning in 1943: Antoine on Twitter this morning: Ice cold in Paris …...

National Audit Office says government departments will have to make fundamental changes to achieve lasting reductions required by the spending review

A former Scotland Office minister is calling for a "double referendum" to decide Scotland's constitutional future.

Ask any number of your office colleagues and the answer is bound to be the same: British workers are facing tougher, longer hours than ever before.

Liberal Democrat Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne  in the Guardian about the Coalition’s strategy to prevent torture throughout the World and about the independent enquiry which will investigate whether Britain was implicated in torture after 9/11: We know that we face a long and difficult road ahead. But our vision is for people to be

And so Fred Goodwin has lost his knighthood. Here's the Cabinet Office statement (and some of my previous thoughts here): 'It will soon be announced in the London Gazette that the Knighthood conferred upon Fred Goodwin as a Knight Bachelor has been cancelled and annulled. This decision, not normally publicised in advance, was taken on the advice of the Forfeiture Committee, which advised...