Did we need to replace Chris Huhne at all? Nigel Lawson, a former editor of The Spectator (amongst other things), has an intriguing idea in a letter to today’s FT: just break up the Department for Energy and Climate Change. It has done nothing to encourage the development of shale gas, which — as we argue in a leader in tomorrow’s Spectator — could keep Britain in energy fo...

Lords leader says an upper chamber containing ‘the voice of people who want to break up the UK’ would be positive for Westminster

Alex Salmond plans to break up the United Kingdom by asking Scottish voters a "loaded and biased" question in favour of independence, elections expert Professor Robert Cialdini said today.

Alex Salmond yesterday vowed to break up Britain by 2016 as he set out his timetable for a referendum on Scottish independence and its aftermath.

First Minister Alex Salmond vows to break up Britain by 2016 as he sets out timetable for referendum on Scottish independence.

The Costa Concordia crew will no longer believe that stranger things happen at sea, writes Boris Johnson.

The government's proposed benefits cap will "break up families" Liberal Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes warns ministers.

Not many books make such an impression that you can still remember the broad outline of their arguments three decades after reading them. But the second edition of Tom Nairn’s ‘The Break Up of Britain’, published in 1982, was very much the work that has shaped my thinking on nationalism with the British Isles ever

Chief Secretary to the Treasury says David Cameron's decision to veto a new European Union treaty does not threaten the Coalition, which will continue until the next general election.

European Commission proposals to break up the four biggest accountants would oblige them to rename parts of their businesses