Public money used to stop public having a greater say in policing - Telegraph.Don't ask whose money it is. Our public officials certainly don't think it's ours. Listening to "The World at One" as I drove along the M56 today,...

The Telegraph and Daily Mail report that the next Conservative government will "rewrite civil service contracts to include a new legally-binding "fiduciary responsibility to taxpayers"." Civil servants who are "judged to have failed to spend public money prudently will be...

The body representing police authorities used public money to hire experts to help stop the public having a greater say in policing the Daily Telegraph can disclose.

There is no government money. There is taxpayers' money and there is borrowed money. Obnoxious wastrels such as Charlie Gilmour can riot but tax receipts of £548bn and public expenditures of £697bn means his misplaced sense of entitlement is unaffordable.There is no fairy gold. The money belongs to the people.

From the Daily Telegraph: Local government leaders have argued that councils could not have foreseen the risks involved in the Icelandic financial sector when they invested public money. But The Daily Telegraph has established that some local government managers did act on warnings from international credit ratings agencies that the Icelandic banks were becoming less secure. In February, Moody&rsq...

Update: Julia Goldsworthy is to return £1005 claimed on that darned chair. Quite right too! It's an appalling amount of money to claim for a chair!Julia Goldsworthy has responded to the Telegraph report this morning here:RESPONSE TO TELEGRAPH ARTICLE12.00.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Wed 13th May 2009In its report today, the Daily Telegraph has focused on some claims I made under the MPs expenses scheme.

That would be Jerry Reed's "You make it, They take it" Income tax man’s a-knockin’ at my door And yellin’ money, money (money-money-money) Income tax man’s a-yellin’ for some more Money, money (money-money-money) [Chorus] ‘Cause when you make it they take it (money-money-money) You make it they take it (money-money-money) You make it they ta-a-a-ke it, they...

Does anyone else have trouble navigating the new Telegraph website? I don't know why they felt they had to change the layout: it is so much harder to find things on there now! Why waste money on a website redesign like that?

The Sunday Telegraph set out to compare all 72 UK members of the European Parliament, contrasting each individual's work rate with the amount they cost the public purse to calculate an overall "value for money" rating for each.

Telegraph View: If money is power, then any increase in subsidy represents a transfer of authority to Brussels.