The Director of Public Prosecutions has made an unprecedented attack on a key Conservative policy by insisting that scrapping the Human Rights Act would bring "shame" on Britain.

The Tory conference was designed to bring home to the public the notion of truth and responsibility. Some would say that the release of such headlines as raising the retirement age, freezing public sector pay and “telling it as it as” are a democratic version of spanking. The toffs transposing their public school predilections on the masses. Yet, the very basis of this approach...

"Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope." It was 30 years ago today that The Lady said these words at 10 Downing St. It’s wrongly attributed to St Francis of Assisi – the last two lines were his, the first two her own.  They are often q...

The European Central Bank president moved to boost confidence in eurozone public finances while keeping up pressure on southern members to bring deficits under control

A Canadian think-tank, the Centre for Policy Alternatives, has done a survey estimating the value of public spending to Canadians. They estimate that the median household benefits from state services to the tune of $41,000 per year, 63% of their income. It is high time someone did a similar survey in Britain to bring home to people the value of the "social wages" that we all get in terms of public...

According to the BBC, the prime minister has said the government needs to work "harder and faster" to bring down energy bills. Huhne has been working to bring them down? Oops. As a commentator has written We cannot raise energy prices from 3.3 per cent of median household income in 2004 to 6 per cent today to 10 per cent in 2015 without creating a serious public and political backlash against curr...

This is perhaps the most important question in public service. It is already well-established that our Labour Government are first and foremost self-serving: that has been evident for a long time, and most British citizens now accept this, even if some can't bring themselves to admit it openly. What of the public-sector agencies, though? Councils, emergency services, health, education and the

MINISTERS have been urged to sterilise the poor and bring back the workhouse to save public money.

When I talked before about the Liberal Democrats showing in public the behind-the-scenes disagreements in the coalition with the Conservatives rather more, this wasn’t quite what I expected… Vince Cable has privately threatened to “bring the Government down” if he is “pushed too far” during fractious discussions with his Conservative colleagues, The Daily Telegr...

George Osborne will next week set out plans to fill the hole in the public finances by the end of this parliament, announcing steep tax rises and spending cuts designed to bring down record public borrowing