The UK government’s insistence on classing Ecstasy alongside heroin exposes the limits to its ‘evidence-based’ approach.

George Osborne comes out fighting in tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph - launching a four-point plan to deal with soaring government and private debt as well as offering more protection to savers. Read his exclusive article on this site later tonight.  The Sunday Telegraph also has a BPIX opinion poll - which offers further evidence of a "Brown bounce" in the wake of Labour's conference i...

He titles his piece: The IMF says tax havens are a danger to society Then says: The IMF also asserts, without presenting any evidence, that tax havens and the ‘tax competition’ between jurisdictions that they lead, make for more efficient resource allocation in global markets. The title and the body are somewhat different, no? For

Last wednesday saw Nick Clegg return for his annual appearance before the  House of Lords Constitution Committee. As one might expect, a whole range of political reform and constitutional issues were covered in the 90 minute evidence session. One interesting answer by the deputy prime minister which caught my attention was on the topic of

Alarmist reports that seek to persuade us that mobile phones are dangerous take a selective approach to the evidence.

Those of you that take the Daily Telegraph will have been interested to see the effects and reciprocity demanded by the public for corruption amongst state employees. Indeed it is heartening to see the direct approach that has been adopted in these corruption cases when the public is defrauded to such a massive scale. You can find the article on one way of solving this problem HERE. In other news ...

The current approach to the United Kingdom doesn’t work. The current approach treats each home nation as an individual, yet this approach leads to everyone pulling the centre in every direction. It leads to infighting, or to one country taking control and dictating to the others how they should be run. Neither result leads to

Telegraph View: Harriet Harman's approach has entrenched inequality.

Telegraph View: Will there be a coherent policy approach, or a hotchpotch of ideas with no real consistency or theme?

Telegraph View: Third World programmes must give better value for money and the Tories must realise this.