Southwark Councillor Rowenna Davis (who has written for LC occasionally) has launched a campaign that says betting shops are blighting local high streets across Britain. She wants councils to be given more power to stop them from springing up everywhere. She has a point, and I support the campaign - not just because I abhor betting shops.

A campaign to stop people smoking in cars when children are present, and which could pave the way for a ban, is launched by the Welsh government.

David Cameron pledges to do ???everything possible??? to stop single market being discussed behind the UK???s back

A bill to stop members of Congress from trading on insider information has moved closer to becoming law

Wales must be better marketed around the world if it is to stop the "steep decline" in inward investment, a report warns.

If we defend inequality in marriage though not in the rest of society, we are guilty of gross hypocrisy, writes JP Floru.

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Years of being told to be more tolerant have left us powerless and afraid, argues Philip Johnston.

Hartnett wants the citizenry to stop giving cash to their cleaners, gardeners, and to small tradesmen and other potential tax cheats and economic criminals so that they can no longer avoid paying taxes. Hartnett’s vision of Britain is a society of snoops and denunciators. “Households have a duty to ensure that other people do not evade paying their share of tax. The people who ...

Cabinet Minister Iain Duncan Smith tells the BBC that he trusts the PM to stop eurozone countries using EU-wide institutions without the UK.