‘It’s getting better. A year ago people were just panicked. Now that panic is subsiding’ says woman who has been jobless for two years

Hester’s million: panic broke out in the heart of government but the RBS story would not go away

One of those moral panic type surveys has been reported in the MSM today. Apparently people in the UK are getting less honest, and more willing to tolerate lies, adultery etc. For my 2ps worth I'd blame UK soap operas ( esp East Enders ) and programs like "The Apprentice" - where getting caught lying is just seen as evidence of how "passionate" and candidate is about themselves becoming Lord ...

Report after report tells us that children are down, lost and in need of expert intervention. Real-world evidence suggests otherwise.

Feminists are exploiting the ‘exploding breasts’ panic in the name of having a pop at cosmetic surgery.

Whether we were cheering uprisings or challenging nuclear panic, spiked cut to the chase in 2011.

In my Progress column this week I respond to the panic over the poll blip last week:

David Cameron’s usual insouciance gave way to something approaching panic as Europe dominated exchanges at PMQs. 8 Conservative MPs, all of them hostile to varying degrees, asked questions about Cameron’s intentions at the Brussels summit on Friday. This may not have surprised him, but the word around the Commons tearooms is that Cameroons are blaming Speaker Bercow for calling so many...

The path to sustainable growth is complex and measures taken will have an uncertain outcome, but this is a time for responsible action not panic, the newly elected American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) president, Hendrik Bourgeois, told EurActiv on the eve of the EU-US summit. More »

The path to sustainable growth is complex, complicated and any measure proposed will have an uncertain outcome, but this is a time for responsible action not panic, said newly elected Amcham president, Hendrik Bourgeois, in an interview with EurActiv on the eve of the EU-US summit. More »