For the moment the case of Frederick Toben, arrested at Heathrow Airport by our boys and girsl in blue on German demand because the man is accused of being a Holocaust denier (and for all I know, he is but it is not a crime in this country), has been suspended. A London judge ruled yesterday that the European arrest warrant used to detain him for extradition earlier this month was invalid because ...

One new all-time record coming upThis week Mr Darling buried the fiscal rules, telling us:"To apply the fiscal rules in a rigid manner today would be perverse. We would have to take money out of the economy, exacerbating an already...

Against the background of worsening economic conditions and businesses struggling to remain solvent, the TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) today publishes a detailed study of the severe burden placed on business by EU regulations. The report reveals the true scale of EU...

Thick gloves required We've blogged public sector pay many times, including the issue of those portly moggies snuggled up in Town Halls and quangos throughout the land. This week the TaxPayers' Alliance published the latest Town Hall Rich List. Despite...

This week on the Guardian website, we’ve found 515 jobs in local government on offer. You can see on the right the pay grades they offer, with only 2 over £100,000. It shows, week after week for you to see,...

Two stories in the papers today come from the ring top circuses of Herefordshire county council and Three Rivers council. They defy belief. Herefordshire resident Brian Hubbard has been ordered to stop cutting a grass verge outside his home because...

Yesterday afternoon we got the final communique. Has The London Summit been a success? Have British taxpayers got good value for the huge expense and aggravation associated with hosting and securing the G20? The first thing to note is that...

A senior Conservative MP has come under fire for complaining about being made to pay an extra £15 a week for his gold-plated pension. Sir Nicholas Winterton, the Tory MP for Macclesfield, complained in the Commons that the rise in...

A council has been criticised for paying an agency £200,000 for its transport chief despite the post's salary only being £50,000. James Duncan makes a weekly commute from Scotland to carry out the job at Bournemouth council in Dorset. The...

It is the kind of perk normally associated with fat-cat businessmen. But a manager at a cash-strapped council is being flown 365 miles to work every week - and 365 back again. Bournemouth Borough Council are paying £200,000 a year...