Looks like a weekly series in which Malc gives his advice to the Labour campaign. This one's a cracker: Talking to the manifesto children in the war room, they are all very excited about optimism. I don't know where they found it but now they've opened the pot they want to smear it over everything. The New Britain. An Internet. A train like those we have seen on our holidays, that goes. A knowledg...

Sad news has reached us here at Lib Dem Voice that Islington Councillor Donna Boffa died today after a long illness. From the Islington Tribune: Cllr Boffa, 43, was first elected to represent Bunhill ward in 2003, in a by-election following the death of Lib Dem Cllr Rose Wooding. She leaves behind five children. Islington Council leader Lib

The deputy chair of London's fire authority (LFEPA) last night became the fifth Boris Johnson appointment to leave City Hall in shame. Bertha Joseph was forced to quit after spending almost £1,000 of cash donations for children's charities on ball gowns for herself. She was suspended from Brent council for six months last October for bringing her office into disrepute but Boris Joh...

Boris loses another appointment under cloud of sleaze The deputy chair of London’s fire authority (LFEPA) yesterday become the fifth Boris Johnson appointment to leave City Hall in shame. Bertha Jospeh was forced to quit after spending almost £1,000 of cash donations for children’s charities on ball gowns for herself. She was suspended from Brent council for

Reviews into the deaths of three children who came into contact with care agencies in Swansea are to be published.

"We all have evil within us. Even small children are evil towards each other," Danish-Norwegian artist Nina Maria Kleivan tells Haaretz as she explains why she chose to dress up her baby daughter as the most evil historical figures of...

Nick Clegg will be speaking tonight at the 20th annivesary celebrations of human rights group, Privacy International, and will stress the importance of this coming general election as an opportunity to win back privacy. Here are some extracts from his speech: Labour has spent 13 years trampling over people’s privacy. From allowing children’s fingerprints to be taken

You want to know how to control the abusers of children who patrol the internet? Bring back the death penalty for murder. That’s the Mirror. So it’s not “right wing” to be baying for snapped necks then really. I don’t of course, agree myself. But if they were to bring it in for the use of Facebook

Dick Olver, who was speaking to The Daily Telegraph at an event designed to boost children’s interest science and engineering, said: “We need more of the very good engineering graduates to go into engineering rather than the financial services.” . There’s a simple answer to

Samantha Cameron has paid a visit to a children's support project to learn how vulnerable inner-city children are being given educational and emotional help thanks to money raised by Sport Relief.