Ed Miliband urged the prime minister to implement the findings of the controversial Walker review

Lisbon aims to intensify structural reforms and regain access to debt markets next year, even though bond yields are touching perilously high levels

Alan Whitehead pressed the Government in Parliament yesterday over measures to tackle spiralling house prices and rents in the south of England. In Southampton, the average house price is now 9 times the average income, and the average rent for a two-bed home now accounts for 46% of the average income - one of the highest rent to income ratios in the country. Shelter's Private Rent Watch (p50...

Athens’ demands complicate protest against Tehran’s nuclear programme. Ministers meet on Monday to discuss plans

The Watcher' Council is proud to present ... the nominations! So who and what exactly is the Watcher's Council? Let me say first that the Watcher's Council is the winner of the 2011 Fabulous 50 Blog Award in the category of Best Conservative Blog-Ring. Now that that's out of the way, the Watcher's Council is a long-standing group consisting of a core of conservative blogge...

US Treasury secretary Tim Geithner tours Asia in effort to squeeze Iran over its nuclear programme

While the Palestinian bid for membership at the United Nations moved closer to rejection, it turned out that Palestine has a veto over which UN agencies the United States funds. For after Palestine gained admission to UNESCO, the US administration followed through on its threats and cut the organisation's funding. As UNESCO is based on assessed contributions from member-states, others cannot ...

Prime Minister David Cameron presses for progress on a range of human rights issues at the Commonwealth summit.

Printing £75bn does not sound like a plan to make us all richer. It sounds like a plan to turn us into Zimbabwe. But last week Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, announced that is exactly what he will be doing. When complete, the Bank’s Quantitative Easing, or QE, programme will have seen £275bn leave the printing presses, nearly £5000 for every person living in ...

Ex-Defence Secretary Liam Fox is expected to address MPs after a report found he had breached the ministerial code, as Labour presses for more answers.