Will Boris speak out against "social cleansing"?
Mayor's warning of "social cleansing" comes true as Newham council seeks to move housing benefit claimants to Stoke.In October 2010, Boris Johnson memorably declared of the government's plan to cap...
View ArticleOpinionomics | 24 April 2012
Must-read comment and analysis. Featuring Hollande and Holland.1. A bigger IMF war chest (Economist | Free Exchange) Ryan Avent writes on whether the IMF's $1trn firewall can help the Eurozone. 2. High...
View ArticleOther people's business, Tuesday 24 April
Why your mother keeps calling. 1. Oil majors can’t afford to shun Argentina (Reuters) The seizure of YPF may not be the end of it, writes Raul Gallegos. 2. Feeding China's offspring (Schumpeter)...
View ArticleQuango cull is based on "incomplete" figures, say MPs
The Cabinet Office accepts the need to reassess its savings estimate of £2.6bn.The UK government’s plan to close at least 262 quangos as part of the public bodies reform programme to save £2.6bn in...
View ArticleMensch calls for more tax subsidies for local press
The Tory MP claims that local press "performs a unique function in our democracy". Tory MP Louise Mensch has called for more subsidies and tax advantages for local newspapers as a means of preserving...
View ArticleFleet Street Blues settles with PR firm over Tulisa story
The website shut down in March after PR firm Hackford Jones took libel action. The journalism blog Fleet Street Blues appears to be back online after reaching a settlement with PR firm Hackford Jones...
View ArticleRoulette in betting shops? It's all political spin
ADVERTORIAL: The Fairer Gambling Campaign warns against the dangers of addictive betting machines.Gambling machines known as B2s were introduced into UK betting shops in 2001, at which point they were...
View ArticleChristopher Fung: "Boom and bust has led to a lot of innovation in food"
Questions for the CEO of Crussh.1. Sum up your leadership style in three words. Courage, persistence, integrity. 2. What was your first paid job? An industrial placement as a manufacturing engineer at...
View ArticleKickstarter raised almost $120m last year
Company's revenue around $6mBenjamin Jackson at The Next Web has managed to scrape out some numbers from the crowd-funding site Kickstarter, and estimates the company has raised $119m in successful...
View ArticleDarfur nine years on: murder in a media vacuum
For every Libya there are 10 Darfurs. Earlier this month the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, condemned Syrian leader Bashar Assad’s “long list of broken promises”. “The world must judge...
View ArticleWhy has the coalition's aid bill been delayed again?
The Tories have put politics before the interests of the world's poorest. According to weekend newspaper reports, the bill enshrining in law the UK’s commitment to the UN target for international aid...
View ArticleRepsol may never get paid for YPF
Argentina's delaying tactics are legendary, and collecting from sovereign nations is near impossible.This is the second of two posts explaining the legal battlefield on which Repsol and Argentina are...
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Russell Brand speaks to MPs: in pictures
The actor addresses government inquiry into drugs policy.Gold chains, hat, and torn black vest top is not the kind of outfit you'd expect to see in the Houses of Parliament, but it is what Russell...
View ArticleMurdoch: I did discuss BSkyB bid with Cameron
Murdoch's revelation contradicts Cameron's previous claims. David Cameron has always denied discussing the BSkyB bid with James Murdoch but in his testimony to the Leveson inquiry, Murdoch has just...
View ArticleTheatre Review: Making Noise Quietly
Peter Gill's revival of Robert Holman's triptych at the Donmar Warehouse is unmissable. Robert Holman wrote Making Noise Quietly in 1986, in a Britain still raw from the effects of the Falklands War....
View ArticleWhose Auschwitz?
What does the Günter Grass affair tell us about changing German attitudes to the Holocaust?Günter Grass’s poem “What Must Be Said” was an extraordinary attack on Israel not because of what he said but...
View ArticleLords reform is a chance for Labour to flirt with the Lib Dems
Miliband could explore a more collaborative relationship with the third partyHouse of Lords reform is a private coalition grief into which the Labour party must decide how best to intrude. The...
View ArticleIs this the end for Jeremy Hunt?
Culture Secretary under pressure after acting as a "cheerleader" for the BSkyB bid. Jeremy Hunt is swiftly emerging as the cabinet minister with the most questions to answer following James Murdoch's...
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How much does austerity hurt growth?
Paul Krugman gives a rough-and-ready model based on yesterday's Eurostat figures.Paul Krugman uses the Eurostat figures on European debts and deficits to do a rough-and-ready calculation of the effects...
View ArticleSky News accidentally names Ched Evans rape victim
The broadcaster displayed tweets betraying her anonymity.Sky News has been forced to apologise to the woman raped by footballer Ched Evans after inadvertently displaying a Twitter feed that named her....
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