The Today Programme this morning demonstrated the problem with putting out an official statement on your private life: it makes the media feel that they have official sanction to discuss the matter. There were three separate discussions of Hague’s statement on the programme this morning. In a classic case of the BBC trying to both have its cake and eat it, one of the segments spent several m...

THE £200 billion effort by the Bank of England to kick-start the economy foundered in July as growth in the money supply ground to a halt, official figures showed yesterday.

RECEPTIONS hosted by Scotland's First Minister and other official government events could be all become alcohol free if Labour wins power at next year's Holyrood elect

THE "potentially dangerous" problem of bed blocking returned to Scottish hospitals this summer, with official figures revealing that the number of delayed discharges a

Even the literary critics have to wait until tomorrow for the Blair memoirs – but the book's contents are slowing spilling out onto the Internet this evening. A series of extracts has just been published on the official website, and the Guardian has extensive coverage, including an interview with the man himself. So far, there's nothing too surprising. Blair, for instance, lays int...

A former official in the House of Commons fees office faces jail for siphoning off almost £6,000 in bogus MPs' expenses claims to clear his own debts.

Scotland has been branded the sick man of Britain after an official comparison of the four home nations found higher levels of smoking, drinking, obesity and disease north of the Border.

AN EDUCATION union clashed with the Tories yesterday over claims money is being "splashed out" to cover teachers' time off for official duties.

The Spectator's Peter Hoskin doesn't like the idea of extending the 50p top rate of tax to earnings over £100,000 (rather than £150,000) though he rather jumps the gun in suggesting that "it’s fairly probable that this will be official Labour policy in the not-too-distant". Hoskin suggests that Ed Miliband has joined Ed Balls and Diane Abbott in advocating this policy. Of...

Gordon Brown used one of his last official phone calls from Downing Street to apologise to Tony Blair for their poor relationship.