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Newspaper commentators and opinion-formers are largely united in their astonishment that massive bank bonuses in the state-owned banks, for ...

It isn’t ever quite clear, just from the newspapers, just where the delicate negotiations between the government and the banks have reached ...

I was hauled over by the police about 18 months ago under anti-terrorism legislation, largely because I was looking a little unusual. I was ...

I suppose Vince's remarks were unwise, but that is easy to say.  Personally, hardly a day goes by without me saying something seriously ...

Utilitarians, ugh, they make me shudder.  And for some reason those in authority who make me shudder most, when I hear them in the radio, ar...

The week since the worst moment of the fees vote has seen a whole tranche of recognisably Lib Dem ideas announced by the coalition, not the ...

There are undoubtedly some worrying aspects about the Localism Bill – not to mention the perverse incentives to stay poor enshrined in the c...