The former foreign secretary's blueprint to help a lost generation must be taken seriously, says Mary Riddell.

An end to military rule will speed the end of the post-revolution cycle of death and protest, typified by the Port Said football tragedy

The Guardian reports: Seven hospital trusts struggling with crippling private finance initiative debts are to receive £1.5bn in emergency funding from the government to help them avoid cutting patient services to pay their bills. The Department of Health is making the £1.5bn available – in grants, not loans – to the seven hospital trusts in

This weekend, thousands of people defied the cold and the control in Moscow to show their dislike for Vladimir Putin and what Russia has become under his leadership: corrupt, energy-reliant, centralised, and uncompetitive. It is now a country that must win externally because it can't help but lose internally. ‘Post-BRIC’, as a new report has it. My guess is that Putin will ‘...

David Cameron is facing a growing revolt against plans to give billion of pounds of British money to help bail out the euro.

David Cameron is facing a growing revolt against plans to give billion of pounds of British money to help bail out the euro.

New Energy secretary Ed Davey has pledged to tackle soaring power bills in his first few weeks in his new job.

Standard Chartered, UK government and special fund-raising events help direct donations from FT readers and supporters of Sightsavers to reach multi-million pound mark

Prison sentences of up to six months will become ‘spent’ after two years, compared with seven years in move to help people find work

George Eaton at the New Statesman says that ‘Labour has reason to hope’ because ‘new data shows that 88 per cent of Osborne’s cuts are still to come.’ To be blunt, having looked at the polls over the last 18 months, I now think this is hopelessly optimistic. I say this for several reasons. For