It's not been confirmed yet, but there's news of another liberated village, this time Panhe in southern Zhejiang: According to World Journal, the Wukan uprising’s ultimate success inspired Panhe villagers to decide to hold widespread demonstrations starting February 1. Since...

Two victim groups enter, one group leaves. Personally, I'm thinking of starting a sweepstake on what happens first: dawn raids in Brighton or the BBC admitting that incidents like this may shed some light on why Christians might just be a little hostile to handing over their Churches to you-know-who for their little ceremonies.

In case you missed it, Tim Farron’s interview on yesterday’s Andrew Marr Show is here in full on BBC iPlayer (starting at 35:43) or here in a shorter clip. Standing, well wrapped up, in snowy Cumbria, Tim is in typically robust form. He pays tribute to Chris Huhne and says he “wants and expects” him

The public will be able to see which of their parks, nightclubs or shopping centres are crime hot spots under a new online feature starting tomorrow.

Facebook, Google, Twitter and other social networking sites will support European citizens’ initiatives that will be launched starting 1 April, corporate representatives said during a conference in Brussels last week. More »

The Prime Minister is starting a push to encourage entrepreneurs but a report suggests he has a battle on his hands in the North East of England.

Let’s start with what Ed Balls, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor said in the Guardian on January 14th: My starting point is, I am afraid, we are going to have keep all these cuts. There is a big squeeze happening on budgets across the piece. The squeeze on defence spending, for instance, is £15bn by 2015. We

Labour leader Ed Miliband calls on the government to take action to shut down UK tax havens, starting with the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

I am disappointed as the next Keynesian if Ed Balls said this morning that he supports the Tories’ cuts. He hasn’t, at least as far as I can tell. He has said: My starting point is, I am afraid, we are going to have keep all these cuts. There is a big squeeze happening on

Saturday’s Guardian has an interview with Ed Balls: Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, has moved to challenge accusations that Labour is not credible on the economy by telling the public sector unions that he endorses George Osborne’s public sector pay freeze until the end of the parliament, and that he accepts every spending cut… “My