Former chancellor says proposed European Commission legislation should require greater sharing of information between regulators and bank auditors

What a bloody mess !!   Until Gordon Brown (Badly Knitted Man) came along, our banks worked mostly very well for themselves and for our nation, with the Bank of England being the world's most revered financial institution.   Gordon Brown took away the safety regulations and then encouraged banks, especially RBS, to take enormous risks with their investments and stock sharing, whilst...

What do Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn, the Conservatives’ Peter Bottomley and our own Jenny Willott have in common? They’ve all signed up to this Early Day Motion tabled by Liberal Democrat MP for Ceredigion, Mark Williams. Mark’s motion welcomes a recent report* highlighting that job-sharing can stem the ‘female brain drain’ by enabling more women to

A reminder of earlier dramas in London and surrounding parts this year: A court on Wednesday sentenced a rioter who was caught on video pulling a man off his scooter during the summer riots to almost six years in jail. The footage of Ryan Kitchenside, 18, chasing his victim before yanking him to the ground during the August riots in Croydon, appeared on video-sharing website Youtube, l...

David Cameron is to detail plans to "open up" the NHS to private health firms, with could include sharing anonymous patient data.

Senior ministers are facing a £4,000 hike in their pension contributions to show they are sharing the pain with the rest of the public sector.

French President Nicholas Sarkozy has embraced a German campaign for treaty change that could give European authorities intrusive powers to intervene in the national budgets of countries sharing the euro currency. The European Commission is due to present plans today (23 November) for greater fiscal surveillance in the eurozone. More »

Here’s a party press release worth sharing… 140,000 disadvantaged two-year-olds to benefit from free early education Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Liberal Democrat children’s minister Sarah Teather have published proposals to give 140,000 disadvantaged toddlers 15 hours of free early years education. This is a key Liberal Democrat policy delivered by the Coalition Governme...

Pressure mounted on Greece's two main political partie this afternoon to wrap up three days of critical power-sharing talks and name a new prime minister to take over at the helm of an interim government.

I have some thoughts on submarine proliferation over at WPR: As the threat of war with the Soviet Union faded and then vanished, many of the platforms necessary for ASW also disappeared, as did the tightly integrated systems of cooperation necessary for sharing information. As the theater of operations became increasingly undefined, the knowledge of local ocean and weather conditions crucial to lo...