The retiring Governor of the Bank of England reckons the Chancellor George Osborne was working too much for the bankers // Speaking in the House of Commons, the Chancellor did not deny claims that he...
New figures reveal public borrow rose last year. This was despite a windfall from Switzland and £billions of Quantatitive Easing coming into the Chancellors coffers. // Changes to accounting methods...
// Pensioners in their 60s and 70s have seen their incomes rise steadily during the recession years - and now they are less likely to be poor than any other group in society, according to a new...
It is always a pity to return to AB to find a question has been deleted or a post has been removed. It is especially annoying if you have read the deleted item and found nothing wrong with it. I...
This young woman nearly did. The Tweet was an horrible thing to say. But it was her opinion no matter how ghastly. It reflects extremely badly on her. But it seems over the top to jail someone for a...
// The Sunday Telegraph reports Patrick Mercer convinced Keith Vaz, Valerie Vaz, Julien Brazier, Mark Field and Fabian Hamilton to join his Fiji APPG. And the Sunday Times has stung Lords Laird,...
...paid City fund managers for Local Authority Gold Plated staff pension funds. The overall cost of the fees would be the equivalent of adding £15 to every council tax bill in England and Wales. //...
Or Poacher all along? Dave Hartnett, retiring head of HMRC is to join Deloitte, a City firm who advise Starbucks on Tax Avoidance. The much criticised Hartnett has been in the news quite a bit in his...
The Security Services do a very difficult job and I know they have thwarted several terrorist plots and for that we are greatful. But the more that emerges about the Woolwich murderers, it appears...
// Grassroots Conservative activists are “mad swivel-eyed loons” who are forcing Tory MPs to take extremist positions opposing gay marriage and Europe, one of David Cameron’s closest allies has...
// “If we left the EU, we would end this sterile debate, and we would have to recognise that most of our problems are not caused by “Bwussels”, but by chronic British short-termism, inadequate...
The Conservative Party is split over Europe, and plan to embarrass Cameron. // Downing Street said it would tell ministers to abstain this week from a key vote that effectively calls for Mr...
// The radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada will voluntarily go back to Jordan if and when its parliament ratifies a new deportation treaty with Britain, his lawyers have said. The disclosure is a major...
Last Wednesday (before the local elections) he said... // // The Prime Minister, said that he was prepared to introduce legal safeguards before the end of the current parliament to guarantee that a...
// The Prime Minister, who has described Ukip supporters as “fruitcakes”, said that he was prepared to introduce legal safeguards before the end of the current parliament to guarantee that a...