Andrew Lansley should be grateful for small mercies. Rachel Sylvester's column (£) today may quote a Downing Street source to the effect that ‘Lansley should be taken out and shot’, but there is yet no sign that a hundred Conservative MPs will write to the Prime Minister to say that the Health Secretary's reforms have to stop. We've had such a letter for wind farms ...

Welsh MP Alun Cairns joins over 100 fellow Conservatives to write to the prime minister urging a cut in subsidies for onshore turbines.

Tory MPs write to Prime Minister demanding that subsidies paid to "inefficient" onshore wind turbine industry are "dramatically cut".

One of my hobbies is to browse the pages of the (London) Times from a hundred years ago. As I intend (though I promise nothing) to write the odd post around articles from the time I thought it might be a good idea to describe (as best I can) the world in 1912. Or, at least, the world as seen through the pages of the Times which is a potentially dangerous thing to do. Imagine,...

The release of the names behind candidates’ surrogate campaigning groups has put faces to an emerging force in US politics, write Richard McGregor and John Dunbar

The sum of £8bn encompasses the sum the government has had to write off and the interest it has to pay on the stock of debt it holds

Editor’s note: the author of this post has requested to remain anonymous, but his identity is known to me. I write as a lifelong Liberal/Lib Dem and former councillor. I am sadly having to remain anonymous so that my wife is not made subject to reprisals for my views. Lib Dem Voice recently claimed the

An interesting case study here from the Media Blog about a Guardian sourced 'twitterstorm' that forced a gym to relax its rigid contract towards two of its customers. The case is interesting of course, but the Media Blog write-up is mostly concerned with what it tells us about the relative centres of media power, and how they inter-relate

The EU should take a clear position and create more incentives regarding media freedom in Turkey as part of the country's accession negotiations, write Alison Bethel McKenzie and Steven M. Ellis of the International Press Institute in Vienna. More »

Seriously, is it entirely necessary to be ignorant of finance to write for The Guardian on finance? Greece is on the verge of a breakthrough in talks with its creditors that could wipe out up to 70% of its debts and alleviate the crisis in the eurozone. No it bloody isn’t. They’re on the verge