Labour needs to be bolder on education
The real "One Nation" opportunity.Education is one area about which Ed Miliband has had little to say – but it is actually rife with radical "One Nation" policies. If Ed Miliband was nervous before...
View ArticleCameron hasn't created "a million" private sector jobs
How the PM is misleading voters about the government's economic record. One of David Cameron's favourite boasts is that "one million new jobs" have been created in the private sector since the...
View ArticleSuperman vs the blogosphere
My money's on the blogosphere.Yes, Clark Kent, the humanoid alter ego of benign alien Christ-figure Kal-El, is leaving the inky empire of the Daily Planet to type away in the spare bedroom. I can...
View ArticleDonald Trump demands Obama's records for.... five million dollars
An offer he "can't refuse", but probably will refuse. Donald Trump has made a video asking Obama to release his college records, applications and passport information, saying that in return he will...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
Nick Clegg on the economy. Recovery is slow and fitful. Repairing the damage following the shock in 2008 is a gradual healing process. After David Cameron boasted that the "good news will continue",...
View ArticleMorning Call: pick of the papers
The ten must-read comment pieces from this morning's papers. 1. We must stop protecting the rich from market forces (Guardian) The 'American' global economy punishes the poor while giving handouts to...
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Syria spill-over threatens to engulf Lebanon
Outbreaks of sectarian violence expose Lebanon’s vulnerability to outside forces.Lebanon lives in a tricky neighbourhood. Wedged between Israel to its South and Syria to its East, its peoplehave long...
View ArticleIt's not safe to leave fossil fuels in the ground
Better to extract the fossil fuels, capture the carbon, and store that instead, says Professor Jon Gibbins.I had the chance to speak to the University of Edinburgh's Professor of Power Plant...
View ArticleU.S. set to become world’s top oil producer
The new Saudi Arabia?American could surpass Saudi Arabia to become the world’s leading oil producer in the near future. American crude and liquid hydrocarbon output is set to rise by 7 per cent this...
View ArticleWhy higher tuition fees have left a £1bn-a-year black hole
Nick Clegg said the deficit meant fees had to rise. But the new system will cost the government more. In defending the coalition's decision to triple tuition fees from £3,000 to £9,000, Nick Clegg has...
View ArticleStephen Colbert offers $1m to Donald Trump's charity of choice if... (Video)
Will Trump take up the offer? (No.) Donald Trump's attention seeking has certainly won him a lot of attention. But while there has been no shortage of jokey responses to his demand that Obama release...
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GDP almost returns to the level it was before Osborne's double-dip
The effects of the second recession have been reversed by 1 per cent growth this quarter.Cameron's claim yesterday that "the good news will keep coming", while (probably) a mild abuse of his privilege...
View ArticleClegg talks Double Dutch
The Deputy PM is using his knowledge of Dutch to foil Cameron's spies. Mistrust is deepening between the Europhobic David Cameron and the Eurofanatic Nick Clegg. I hear Downing Street insisted that a...
View Article"The good news will keep coming"
Business quote of the day."The good news will keep coming" The quote that got David Cameron in trouble at Prime Minister’s question time yesterday. The PM now faces an official investigation after...
View ArticleFive questions answered on the new mortgage rules
Will affect 1 million borrowers.The FSA has announced they will be introducing a new set of rules for mortgage lending. We answer five questions on these new rules. What is the basic gist of the new...
View ArticleThe FCA needs to be allowed to tackle the legal loan sharks
The new financial regulator ought to have payday lenders in its remit, writes Carl Packman.Yesterday, Lord Parry Mitchell of Labour's BIS team in the House of Lords introduced an amendment to the...
View ArticleMaking the world a more dangerous place – the eager role of Julia Gillard
Gillard has returned Australia to its historic relationship with Washington, similar to that of an eastern European satellite with Moscow. The Australian parliament building reeks of floor polish. The...
View ArticleUK Feminsta: voices that can't be ignored
Moving into the mainstream.If you haven’t been paying attention to feminism recently, you’re missing out on one of the most committed, outspoken and energising social justice movements of modern times....
View ArticleLiz Jones and Me
Juliet Jacques explores the complexities of "confessional" journalism.Liz Jones and I have so much in common, chiefly that we have both documented our lives for national newspapers – her for the Mail,...
View ArticleOsborne should beware of a triple-dip recession
The government shouldn't assume that "the good news will keep coming". One can hardly blame the government for seeking to convince voters that today's GDP figures prove that we're "on the right track"....
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