Ministers say they plan to open up the licensing process for arms exports to more public scrutiny, saying it must be seen to be "working properly".

Liberal Democrat peers have traditionally been seen as a quiet bunch, but more than 60 have voted against the government at least once in this Parliament.

Did you see that amazing article by a group of pro-EU businesspeople? What about that clever ad paid for by ‘Better To Be In’, the new pro-EU lobby group? Nope, me neither. The reason we haven't seen anything like that is because the pro-European camp in Britain is in total disarray. Like a beaten army, it is withdrawing in a state of confusion, while some diehards stage energetic...

The commissioner who should be the face and voice of the European Union in the world, Baroness Catherine Ashton, is ignored by her own compatriots, according to an internal document on the visibility of EU commissioners seen by EurActiv. More »

I love movie posters, and I especially love movie posters that I have already seen in London, translated into someone else's language, for somewhere else. So, I love this: These are all over Paris just now, as are huge pictures of Kate Beckinsale (star of Underworld – Nouvelle Ere) and a smaller one of Gary Oldman in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, known here as La Taupe (the mole). J...

Showing during Sunday night’s Super Bowl football game, the ad with Clint Eastwood was seen by some as an endorsement of Barack Obama’s re-election

The premise that pension assets are locked up and lying idle has a long pedigree within UK governments

If you ignore the mindless tittle-tattle, David Miliband’s New Statesman article raises a genuine issue: what should be the left’s attitude to the state? Although this is seen as “Blairite” it is also consistent with a more radical leftist tradition of scepticism about big government is a longstanding tradition on the left such as guild socialism, anarchism, market socialis...

One of my hobbies is to browse the pages of the (London) Times from a hundred years ago. As I intend (though I promise nothing) to write the odd post around articles from the time I thought it might be a good idea to describe (as best I can) the world in 1912. Or, at least, the world as seen through the pages of the Times which is a potentially dangerous thing to do. Imagine,...

We’ve seen a steady stream of groups representing health professional formally oppose the Bill, with the Royal College of GPs among the most recent and significant. Many Coalition MPs and Ministers will be wondering how they can save face and pull back at this late stage. There is one way: publish the Department of Health’s Risk Register.