The one comfort for the Government after today's dismal unemployment figures - at 2.67 million, the highest since 1994 - is that the outlook is no less vile elsewhere
Read full article...There's good news and bad news for the economy
The contest could hardly be closer. In our YouGov poll of voter opinion on the mayoral election, it's not only a two-horse race, but the frontrunners are neck and neck
Barclays' announcement of a fall in last year's profits will not end the furore over bank bonuses
How did we get to this? The England team are without a manager following the resignation of Fabio Capello and their prospects in this summer's European championship look poor
The Metropolitan Police's new initiative against gangs is a welcome effort to solve a growing problem. Police estimate that there are almost 5,000 people involved in around 250 gangs across London, many of them criminal
The striking rise in the number of London headteachers being paid £100,000 or more - almost 200, a figure up 70 per cent in the past two years - is not in itself a bad thing
The Mayor's plan to push for greater control over suburban rail services makes sense
The anti-capitalist protesters know how to pick their targets: one group was evicted from the City's UBS building but they are conspicuously holding out at St Paul's Cathedral
Network Rail bosses' plans to double their salaries through a complicated system of bonuses will outrage London commuters
It was always difficult to square Fred Goodwin's knighthood for services to banking with the devastation he wrought on RBS, its employees and the British economy
Boris Johnson's invitation to French banks to relocate in London is not flippant: President Sarkozy's announcement that he will unilaterally bring in a French tax on financial transactions will make London more attractive to French institutions
The Olympics are a formidable logistical challenge: transporting millions of extra passengers to and from the Games is going to tax the public transport system to the limit
The news that 700 extra officers are to swell the Metropolitan Police's numbers is welcome for London - and for the Mayor, as his re-election campaign enters a new phase
The revelations about the performance of London's schools which we report today are possible thanks to the publication of greatly increased amounts of data on results
Today's figures showing that the UK economy shrank in the last quarter of 2011 were not unexpected, even if the size of the contraction, 0.2 per cent, was more than forecast
Ministers have vowed to ignore the defeat of their benefits reforms in the House of Lords last night: the measure will be back without the Lords' amendment
It is just over 100 days until the mayoral election and as this paper's poll today shows, the two main contenders could hardly be closer matched
The news that 371,000 immigrants claimed state benefits in the UK last year will fuel the public debate over immigration. Conservative ministers have - for the first time, incredibly - ordered the recording of benefit claimants' nationality, giving the headline total; they investigated a sample of 9,000 claimants in greater detail. Of the latter, two per cent were making fraudulent claims; the rest, the majority from outside Europe, were entitled to claim the money.
The people have won. Westminster council's decision to drop plans for off-peak parking charges in the borough, following the departure of its unlamented leader, Colin Barrow, was the result of a remarkable campaign. Night workers, churchmen, croupiers, restaurant owners and shopkeepers came together to resist what amounted to a tax on the West End imposed by its own council. This paper is proud to have led this campaign. We did so because we knew it articulated the genuine feelings of the many people who work, visit and live in Westminster. The pity is that this campaign had to be waged against a council that is supposed to represent the people.
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