Half a day today. I slept through the first half because that is the only sure way to avoid a hangover - stay in bed until it goes away. This only works on days when I don't have to work. Tomorrow I do have to work, so light boozing only this evening (Glenfiddich 12-year-old, a half bottle only. My liver is likely to storm out in a huff if I drink that much again today). An interest...

So this is the town where almost HALF the adult population are "too sick" to work, apparently. Or perhaps one should say allegedly! "It was once a bustling centre for the textile industry with thousands hard at work in the cotton mills. But now Falinge in Rochdale has been branded the sick-note capital of Britain with almost half the population apparently too ill to work. An astonishing 42.9 per c...

Half of those claiming unemployment benefits refused to do unpaid work in return for the money.

"You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take...

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the rich out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them,...

Only half of offenders handed community penalties are made to carry out unpaid work as part of their punishment, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

Half way through his coffee as he enters the briefing room, the Minister for Schools tells me he is a "cup half full, not half empty" kind of guy. Here to announce the 2008 Sats results after the marking fiasco of recent months, can Jim Knight convince journalists the situation was indeed half full and not half empty? "It's just like being in an exam", he remarks as 20 silent reporters lift u...

Half way through his coffee as he enters the briefing room, the Minister for Schools tells me he is a "cup half full, not half empty" kind of guy. Here to announce the 2008 Sats results after the marking fiasco of recent months, can Jim Knight convince journalists the situation was indeed half full and not half empty? "It's just like being in an exam", he remarks as 20 silent reporters lift u...

Labour's public spending boom has created a series of "Soviet" boroughs across Britain where half the residents depend on the state for work.

More than half of young offenders believe detention does nothing to stop them going back to crime, a study has revealed.