Responding to today's announcement that university applications have declined Paul Blomfield, Member of Parliament for Sheffield Central, says that this could be the start of a very worrying trend. Mr Blomfield is a member of the Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee and Secretary of the All Party Parliament Group on Higher Education. Paul Blomfield MP said: "Today's announcem...

Newcastle did not beat Manchester United today, because the long term trend is for Manchester United to beat Newcastle. - Bishop Hill's quote of the day today. He found it here. This is the game being referred to....

Telegraph View: Burma's willingness to tilt towards the West symbolises a worrying trend for China.

The religious cleansing against Christians is intensifying in Nigeria, where Christians have been told they have until Friday to leave the country or face attacks by Islamic extremists. As I wrote recently in the Daily Telegraph, this is a trend sweeping the Middle East. Thousands are fleeing Iraq and Egypt, but Nigeria is the scene of the most ferocious attacks. Its government condemns the attack...

On Monday morning I called in at the Brodd Street office to meet the postal staff sorting the mail ready for their morning rounds. I thanked them on behalf of the local community for handling all the mail, and wished them all a Happy Christmas. The trend to more packets continues, with more and more

Has Mervyn King's downwards trend in inflation, promised for over a year now, finally arrived? After all, going by today's figures, inflation has now dropped for two months running. CPI inflation is at 4.8 per cent, and RPI is at 5.2 per cent. What's more, we can expect them to fall even further once the effect the VAT rise is removed in January: But I wouldn't get too excited ...

The latest debate reinforces the presidential race’s surprise trend as Romney struggles and Gingrich’s popularity grows

Here, courtesy of the Centre for Economic Performance, is how the share of income going to the richest 1% has changed since the start of the last century: It is notable that although 1979 clearly stands out as a turning point, 1997 does not. The trend just continues as before. They also point out that

            Today we are told the OBR will produce far worse forecast figures for growth and borrowing.  That will come as no surprise to readers of this blog. I have argued for the last four years, from the Economic Policy Review onwards, that the trend rate of growth of the UK is now around

Despite – or perhaps because of – the recession, pensioner employment has increased dramtically over the past few years. In his Telegraph column today, Fraser remarks on this important but largely ignored trend in Britain's workforce. 'A million jobs have been lost since the Great Recession began', he says, 'but the number of pension-aged people in work has increase...