An 18-year-old youth has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over the death of a man neighbours said was hounded by yobs for more than a decade. […]
British Airways is facing a second potential dispute, with the Unite union threatening to ballot ground staff over proposed changes to working practices, Sky sources say. […]
Friday's papers are a mixed bag and include reports of the MPs and a Peer in court on expenses charges, the manslaughter of David Askew and EU reforms. […]
4.45pm WATCH: The BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones considers the impact of the internet and new technology on the forthcoming election Guido Fawkes, Will Straw and Justine Roberts discuss the impact of the blogosphere on the election campaign on the BBC's Daily... […]
10pm ToryDiary: Tory lead increases by a point in the YouGov daily tracker 4.30pm Tim Montgomerie on CentreRight: Three new blogs worth bookmarking 3.30pm BOOK NOW for ConservativeIntelligence's 'The New Parliament' conference 3pm Seats and candidates: Simon Marcus, Tory PPC... […]
10pm ToryDiary: Tory lead down to 4% in YouGov/Sun tracker 4.45pm WATCH: Cameron 'fixes' his hair, live on Sky News and David Cameron talks to the BBC's Nick Robinson about Lord Ashcroft 4.30pm Alex Deane on CentreRight: Why aren't samples... […]
11.15pm ToryDiary update: Populus marginals poll suggests Tories within striking distance of majority 10pm ToryDiary update: YouGov poll for The Sun has Tory lead still at 5% 8.15pm Seats and Candidates: Another Labour MP in a marginal seat throws in... […]
In a splurge of activity, William Hague gave both an interview to the FT and another foreign policy speech at RUSI outlining the views of a Conservative government. It was time for an update on Tory thinking, not least because David Cameron’s description of his policy as “liberal conservatism” and his unwillingness to march into a “massive euro bust-up” has […]
David Cameron warns the nation to “get ready” for Samantha, who will be interviewed by Sir Trevor Macdonald on Sunday. If Sarah Brown is the damsel in distress, saved by her heroic husband, Sam Cam is the trouser-wearing uber-bitch. Allegedly, she is terrifying: cowering Smythsons’ interns refer to her as Anna Wintour. She never does hyperbole. She will exto […]
The four members are before a magistrate, attempting to clear their names. I’m not sure if it’s more preposterous than it is shaming to claim that conventions protecting free speech apply to false accounting. If only Enron’s lawyers had been as ingenious. In addition to Morley et al’s abuse of parliamentary privilege, Alan and Ann Keen have been fined £1,500 […]
The City’s elopement with New Labour has ended violently. A poll of leading financiers, conducted by City AM, reveals that 73 percent think that a Tory majority would be best for the economy; a mere 10 percent support Labour. But the City has little enthusiasm for George Osborne: 23 percent believe he has the mettle to be Chancellor, 13 percent behind Ken Cl […]
The latest issue of the Spectator is out today, and here are my top five features: Nick Clegg takes to the stage. With a hung Parliament looking increasingly likely, I thought we should pay a bit of attention to the Lib Dem leader in this week's issue. Interviewed by me, he does his best to reach out to Tory voters - pointing to his party's tax-cu […]
Panellists on tonight's edition of BBC1's Question Time will be faced with an all-women audience, as the programme marks international women's week. […]
Britain's plans for a high-speed rail link have been unveiled by transport secretary Andrew Adonis, with the fastest trains between London and the West Midlands taking just 30 minutes. […]
MPs on the intelligence and security committee have expressed "disappointment" after Gordon Brown published their annual 2008/09 report four months late. […]
Fears that Britain's railways could grind to a halt over the Easter break grew today as Rail and Maritime Union (RMT) members backed strike action. […]
Where employers are most optimistic, and pessimisticIN 27 out of 36 countries surveyed by Manpower, an employment-services firm, more companies said they expected to add jobs in the three months to the end of June than said they reckoned on reducing their workforce. The difference between the proportion of hirers and firers was highest in Brazil and India. T […]
For once, the anniversary of a wartime battle in Latvia should pass off peacefullyTHAT March follows February is not a state secret, but it sometimes seems to come as a surprise to Latvian officials. Sometime in February, they notice that March 16th is approaching and start worrying, belatedly, about what outsiders will think. ... […]
Eurocrats offer up half-baked ideas to prevent a future sovereign-debt scareNOW that Greece has given in to pressure from its peers for a more austere budget, the euro zone’s policy brass suddenly seems more sympathetic towards its most troubled member. On reflection, perhaps the fault with Greece’s parlous public finances lay not just with its budgetary pro […]
The Israeli-Palestinian peace process resumes, after a fashionIT WAS a wretched beginning to what had been hailed as the hopeful resumption of peace talks, albeit indirect ones, between the Israelis and Palestinians under the aegis of an American mediator. Barely had America’s vice-president, Joe Biden, begun a visit to Israel to herald a new era of compromi […]
Branding in the New York art worldVIPs criss-crossed Manhattan last week to attend museum shows, conference panels, champagne brunches, curator tours and the stands of nearly 500 galleries exhibiting in 11 fairs. The week was vibrant but confusing due to poor co-operation between event organisers and some amateur branding.The first problem was an illogical a […]
Living costs in big citiesPARIS is the most expensive city to live in according to the latest survey from Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister company to The Economist. The survey assesses the cost of living by comparing housing, food, clothing, transport and utility bills and the like in 132 cities around the world. Tokyo comes second, up from sixth place […]
AIG reluctantly hands its crown as America’s global life insurer to MetLife ANOTHER week, another opportunity for AIG’s rivals to expand at the American insurer’s expense. Days after sealing a $35.5 billion deal for its Asian life-insurance operations with Britain’s Prudential, the firm, which is being dismembered to recoup bail-out costs, agreed on March 8t […]
The threat of Easter train travel disruption is looming after the RMT union said a ballot of Network Rail maintenance workers showed 77% supported strike action. […]
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