Retail veteran speaks out against the Portas review, saying that her report on the decline of town-centre shopping was the ‘right diagnosis, wrong prescription’

The public will be able to see which of their parks, nightclubs or shopping centres are crime hot spots under a new online feature starting tomorrow.

>Amid from the usual barrage of cutting the 50p rate, slashing capital gains tax and further deregulation (not so much a growth strategy as the usual shopping list of free-market policy demands) Nick Clegg is once again talking about raising the personal income tax allowance to £10,000. Raising the personal allowance to £10,000 is long

It's amazing how rich you can get in a democracy where lese majesty is still a crime, provided you are da majesty. King Bhumibol is the world's richest monarch. Crown holdings include slum housing, cement, shopping malls, insurance and the...

In recent years the festive season seems more likely to bring a byelection than it does a white Christmas. With Christmas shopping, horrible weather, and the prospect of a few short days where politics stands still, Liberal Democrat activists could be forgiven for not prioritising a byelection in the safe Labour seat of Feltham and

When music is used as a weapon, a shopping aid or an educational tool, we lose sight of its ability to move us.

Mary Portas has recently published her report into the decline of some town centres as shopping centres.I attach to the bottom of this blog the 28 policy recommendations, which are now the subject of a consultation. I would like to hear readers’ views before putting in my own thoughts to the BIS Department. They are

While we're talking Christmas, how about this release from the Office for National Statistics today? It reveals how the cost of certain ‘Christmas shopping basket’ items has risen over the past year. We've put them into a table below — but let's just say, you might want to start stocking up on carrots.

Three days before Christmas and 12 days shy of the Iowa caucus, Republican voters are still ‘shopping’ for a candidate but can give their last few festive gifts a political slant, writes John McDermott

In an attempt to repair his Party’s battered poll ratings and diminished credibility following the veto and its aftermath, Nick Clegg has launched the concept of the ‘Open Society’ into the public domain. It mixes important ideas with a sense of a motherhood and apple pie shopping list. It’s hard to see how the Open