Politics

With the New Year, the minds of the Borough’s politicians are beginning to be concentrated on setting out their stalls for the forthcoming elections in May. But has Labour’s campaign stalled even before it’s begun?

The Government has been pumping public money into subsidising home buyers to keep house prices high and protect the economy. According to the Halifax, the policy may be working. It has been running a “Halifax Housing Market Confidence Tracker” for ...

We’d like to wish all our readers a Happy New Year. It would be traditional to wish you health, wealth and happiness – but

So there’s this company learndirect, and it says it’s a “a truly national provider […] with 400 delivery locations”, which apparently gives it

In the old days, the UK had a taxation system: corporations handed a set percentage of their profits over to the state each year, and elected politicians spent the money in accordance with the priorities their party had won the ...

The empty slogans trip off the tongue: it’s the poor who are bearing the brunt of austerity… women suffer disproportionately from the cuts…

One of the dangers of letting political parties have conferences is that you have to put up with

A couple of centuries ago, do-gooders would wander round the East End on a Sunday (flower posies held to their noses to ward off the stench of the poor), to

Councillors in London will enjoy an extra three weeks in office this electoral cycle, with the announcement that the 2014 elections will be held on

The Conservative-led Coalition Government has defended its controversial “welfare reforms” on the basis that most welfare benefit claimants are undeserving, work-shy scroungers who have been living a life of luxury funded by the hardworking tax-payer. Back on planet earth, the ...