TWO Scottish power companies are to be investigated by the energy watchdog amid concerns of mis-selling of contracts to consumers, it was announced yesterday.

So, Ritchie tells us that stock market volumes have fallen and the roof hasn’t fallen in. Thus all of us who chided him over his backing of a financial transactions tax are wrong. So volume and value have fallen, dramatically. And has liquidity collapsed as some predicted? No, it hasn’t. Has the supply of capital to UK large

There will be red faces in Number 10 tonight after the latest foreign policy gaffe from David Cameron. Speaking today at his one of his PM Direct events, the Conservative leader stuck up for Turkey’s application to join the EU, stating it would be able to help Europe address a number of issues: I think

The Spectator’s summer debating season ended with a strident appeal. ‘Too late to save Britain. It’s time to leave’. Proposing the motion, Rod Liddle claimed to have mis-read his invitation. ‘I thought this was a foregone conclusion and we’d come here to arrange the tickets.’ Surging immigration, he said, was ruining the education system and our love lives...

TO THE Playhouse in Edinburgh, on Thursday, to watch the gala Scottish opening of the latest touring production of the global smash-hit musical Les Misérables, based on Victor

There is nothing quite so nauseating as persons claiming the high moral ground when they have been guilty of even worse behaviour themselves. Same applies to political parties. Over recent years, all political parties have been tarnished by financial mis-doings of one sort or another. But its only the Lib Dems who try to pretend they are somehow whiter than others. Yet, in my opinion, the worst ab...

Yesterday I revealed that two Labour Ministers had been (mis)using parliamentary expenses for Labour Party campaigning. Now make that three Labour ministers caught doing so just hours after the Labour Party launched its election manifesto telling us all how quickly...

Blair's return will be worth a good 2-3 points to the Tory lead. Like Mandelson, he can dazzle journalists who admire his tradecraft. Like Mandelson, he is loathed by the public who see a snake oil salesman. Blair mis-sold the country a project in 1997, and delivered none of what he promised (and it was with those broken 1997 problems in mind that the News of the World backed the Conservative...

Five blogs have recently joined Ryan’s Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator: Aberystwyth University Liberal Democrats -  – old logo, new site Harry Armistead -  – nicely integrated with various social networks, including ACT Ian Lindley -  – interesting use of Tumblr, and comes with a campaign song Lee Chalmers -  – though there seems to be a site mis...

Whose sticky little fingers are all over mis-accounting in Greece? All the usual suspects, bar, it seems Barclays (what did they do to miss out?): Wall Street’s role in the unfolding Greek debt crisis will be probed by  Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, which has requested information from Athens about currency swaps. The transactions, undertaken from 2001