Telegraph View: well-meaning efforts to oppose Iain Duncan Smith's benefits cap proposal are badly misguided.

A-ha! Labour have hit on a line on the benefits cap, and Liam Bryne is peddling it in the Daily Telegraph this morning. ‘Now, there are some people who are against this idea altogether,’ he writes, ‘Neither I, nor Ed Miliband are among them.’ The way he sees it, he goes on to explain, is that there should be a cap but it should be set locally, so that it could be higher tha...

It appears I'm not alone in wondering why swimmers have been wearing two swimming caps. On Yahoo Answers the following replies has been published: One- it decreases drag b/c the second cap tends to NOT wrinkle over the first cap. notice when they take off the second cap, the first one is typically wrinkled up. The second cap sticks better to the first cap as opposed to just hair. Two- With two

The High Court has just declared the government's temporary cap on non-EU immigration is unlawful. Its ground was that the cap was not introduced with proper parliamentary scrutiny. However, the annual cap, which will not be in place until April next year, is not affected by this decision. But without a temporary cap there'll be a spike in applications as people try and beat the cap. It&...

An excellent new site on the future of the CAP is now available organised around the theme of '2020: debating the future of the CAP': CAP 2020 . It has a particular emphasis on environmental issues, but has a broader focus than that. Backed by the knowledge and expertise of the Institute for European Environmental Policy, this is going to be a key resource for analysts of the CAP. Indeed...

The most illiberal policy in the Lib-Con deal is the plan for a cap on immigration. Now, we all know that as part of a coalition we have to put up with policies we dislike, the real problem with this policy is not just that we dislike it but that in the words of the

The Sunday Telegraph reported that the French government has summoned a meeting of what it calls the ‘G22’ in Paris this week - senior ministers from 22 EU member states - in an attempt to influence a rethink of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

This Is A Simple Description Of The Concept Of Cap And Trade "A cap and trade system is a method for managing pollution, with the end goal of reducing the overall pollution in a nation, region, or industry. Many proponents of pollution control support the concept of cap and trade systems, arguing that they are extremely effective, and that they make sense economically as well. Such a system is onl...

Cap and Trade Through The Eyes Of The People It Will Hurt Most: The Middle Class For all of you partisans out there that like to paint everything as a Red/Blue fight, Cap and Trade will be a bi-partisan disaster for us all if it gets through the Senate. I have written several pieces on it, but the following is a letter written by a Long Island school teacher that expresses the impact, as well as t...

If the Telegraph's Real Cost of Living Index is a more accurate measure than the CPI or RPI, then real interest rates are 5.3%, which is clearly too high in a recession.