The Government did not do enough to punish taxpayer-backed banks when they failed to hit targets for lending to small businesses, according to MPs... more
Nick Griffin says the BNP would effectively pull up the drawbridge in Barking and Dagenham by making it an unattractive place for migrants to live... more
£29million Raphael drawing which sold for a world record price at auction has been temporarily barred from export in a bid to raise money to keep it in the UK... more
A thousand people flocked to Richmond Park two weeks ago to protest against plans to introduce car-parking charges. It was a polite demonstration, but it masked a real anger ... more
Earlier this year, while preparing a Radio 4 series on Britishness, I spent a day in Leicester interviewing its citizens about national identity... more
Government minister Margaret Hodge vowed to 'expose and expel' BNP leader Nick Griffin after it emerged he would contest her east London constituency at the general election... more
London MP caught in a new expenses row after Evening Standard investigation finds she has been using taxpayers' cash to fund her constituency party... more
Every time I have seen Lord Laming, the Government’s favourite child protection “expert”, wheeled out since Baby Peter’s death I have gritted my teeth... more
Every time I have seen Lord Laming, the Government’s favourite child protection “expert”, wheeled out since Baby Peter’s death I have gritted my teeth... more
A dilapidated east London council block faces demolition after Heritage Minister Margaret Hodge resisted a last-minute campaign by leading architects to have it listed... more
Embracing the rain, Amjad Ali Khan's 'unrehearsed' Indian classical music concert at The Wigmore Hall ended on a spectacular note, says Simon Broughton.... more
Margaret Hodge berates the Last Night of the Proms for being exclusive. She is right. The Proms exclude the majority of the English who have no time for classical music... more
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