It is hard to find a chink in the armour of Wall Street's technology titans. Apple's figures may have disappointed Wall Street this week, but it is all relative... more
The man who led Margaret Thatcher's battle against the unions warns David Cameron not to seek to impose new strike-breaking laws without public support... more
David Cameron was warned against a “Vichy-style” surrender to Europe today as he faced a double rebellion over the European budget and plans for a new EU treaty... more
David Cameron faces fresh pressure over Lord Ashcroft after a cross-party committee of MPs demands to see the secret Whitehall papers on his peerage... more
It had been well trailed, but the announcement by the Crown Prosecution Service that three Labour MPs and one Tory peer will face criminal charges was still shocking... more
Gordon Brown, David Cameron and others are rushing to claim the new President as their own. Ownership of the P-word is going to be a hard-fought battle between Left and Right... more
IF GEORGE Osborne, the shadow chancellor, finds himself fighting for his political credibility, he has only himself to blame. When the question arose as to whether he had sought to solicit donations to the Tory Party from the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska while on holiday in Corfu, he should have issued an entirely frank and full statement, or none at all. What he actually did was to declare that "we didn't ask for money; we didn't receive any". ... more
Like the Cubans in boxing or the Chinese in table tennis, Britain are ready to take ownership of an Olympic sport for the first time in living memory... more
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