Taxpayers' money will be lent directly by the Government to struggling businesses under a radical new plan to help them through the recession The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

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...

Daily Telegraph, 12 December 2008: “Recession pulls hemlines down“. Daily Telegraph, 6 March 2009: “Hemlines rise during economic downturns”. But perhaps it is neither up nor down? Daily Telegraph, 5 February 2009: “the relationship between fashion and the economy is often more subtly complex than that”. Never let it be said the Daily Telegraph doesn’t cov...

The trade union behind the British Airways strike has received almost £400,000 in taxpayers' money in three years.

The TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) today criticised the Government for using taxpayers' money as an easy way out, and urged them to explore other solutions that would limit the amount of our money at risk. With taxpayers' money on the line,...

The new deal for RBS is pure monetary madness. Taxpayers already own most of the bank,and have lost a packet on their shares. Now taxpayers are being made to guarantee £325 billion of bad and doubtful debts as well!

David Laws apologised after The Daily Telegraph disclosed he had used taxpayers' money to pay rent to his secret partner. Here is his statement in full.

From the Daily Telegraph website tonight: Senior Conservatives have claimed tens of thousands of pounds for work on their country estates, leaving taxpayers to subsidise lifestyles far beyond those experienced by most Britons. Some MPs claimed costs, including council tax and repair bills, associated with multiple properties on the same estates. The claims of eight senior Conservatives will be dis...

The Daily Mail flags up this bizarre response from Downing Street to the petition calling for Jeremy Clarkson to be made PM. At the risk of sounding like an old curmudgeon, is this really an appropriate use of taxpayers’ money?

Upon hearing of the ill treatment of Guido Fawkes at the hands of The Daily Telegraph, Cranmer posted this today upon Janet Daley’s blog. It has been deleted, but this more or less as he remembers it: It is no surprise to learn that The Daily Telegraph stands accused of deception and betrayal. Its standards have declined over recent years, for the Barclay brothers know little and care even l...