A very interesting night, and a fairly inconclusive one unless you were in the bottom tier. There is no clear front runner in the Republican camp and one can essentially look at it as three candidates with roughly the a quarter of the votes each... and all the rest divvying up the few leftover scraps in the remaining quarter. The fact that we have two top tier candidates in the race who are not th...

Dilemma is not only straining shop floor traditions but has the potential to feed wider tensions in society

The Foreign Secretary William Hague has dismissed the risk of a two-tier Europe, folllowing David Cameron's decision to veto a treaty change to tackle the eurozone debt crisis.

Although the English language continues to dominate the Internet, the rise of global economic powerhouses like China and Russia has seen a surge in what used to be considered second-tier languages, a Brussels conference heard last week. Meanwhile, the UN predicts that half of the world's 6,000 languages will become extinct by the end of the century. More »

Tory paper proposes devolving power to wealthy local authorities to raise tax revenues, but critics say this will create a two-tier system

The Labour Party apologises after one of its senior politicians describes Belgium and Denmark as "second-tier" countries.

As Pete has noted, George Osborne has been making headlines while braving rollercoasters in California. The chancellor's view that the Eurozone must accept ‘the remorseless logic of monetary union that leads from a single currency to greater fiscal integration’ marks the moment when the government began to campaign for a two-tier Europe, which would allow Britain to sit on th...

As Pete has noted, George Osborne has been making headlines while braving rollercoasters in California. The chancellor's view that the Eurozone must accept ‘the remorseless logic of monetary union that leads from a single currency to greater fiscal integration’ marks the moment when the government began to campaign for a two-tier Europe, which would allow Britain to sit on th...

The creation of a two-tier Europe is unlikely to make the UK's relationship with Brussels any smoother. Indeed, it may pave the way for more trouble

Andy Burnham MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, commenting on warnings from a senior Tory of two-tier school system, said: