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How Labour lost the white working class

30.10.09

Immigration has become a subject so toxic, generating such splenetic aggravation, that it is worth stopping to ask why it is virtually impossible to have a rational debate on the issue... more

Phil Brown rumoured to have left Hull

28.10.09

Reports from Humberside suggest that Hull City manager Phil Brown has left the club... more

GNER gets back on the rails with new train services

24.09.09

New, cut-price train services are to be launched out of Euston to the north of England in the first ever challenge to Virgin Trains' monopoly on the West Coast Main Line... more

Michael Owen seeking a new club

22.06.09

Football: Michael Owen has confirmed he will leave Newcastle when his contract expires at the end of the month... more

Bill will ban 'white-only' BNP

11.06.09

The British National Party will be forced to admit black and Jewish members under the Government's new Equalities Bill, ministers have revealed... more

Today’s East End shows why the BNP is wrong

09.06.09

The BNP gaining two seats at the EU elections made yesterday the darkest day in the UK's politics, especially for us, the so-called foreigners, who have been at the receiving end of racism... more

Unemployment hits 13-year high at 2.2m

12.05.09

Hopes of a swift end to the recession were stamped out as unemployment surged to the highest level in 13 years... more

Greens set to fight coal-fired power plants on Thames

23.04.09

Pioneering coal-fired power stations may be built in the Thames Estuary area under plans which will infuriate green campaigners... more

Tory MP with a portfolio of 23 properties claims Ł100,000

06.04.09

A Conservative MP has claimed nearly Ł100,000 of taxpayer's money for a second home while building up a portfolio of at least 23 properties... more

Alistair Darling: Crossrail will go ahead despite recession

17.11.08

Crossrail will not be delayed despite growing fears of a deep and prolonged recession, says Alistair Darling... more

50,000 jobs go at City giant

17.11.08

The world’s biggest bank, Citigroup, is to axe 50,000 jobs worldwide... more

A political coup to arrest any policeman

06.10.08

The outrage of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and the police establishment at Boris Johnson’s “politicisation” of the Met by removing its Commissioner has been both ludicrous and deeply gratifying to behold... more

Who's in the buying queue

20.08.08

Once the investment bankers start the sell-off Gatwick and Stansted airports, there will be no shortage of prospective bidders... more

Sellers 'must reveal risk of flooding to properties'

25.06.08

Nearly 750,000 Londoners face their homes being blighted under plans unveiled to force house-sellers to reveal the flood risk of their property... more

I don't dream about murdered Victoria ... I live with her every day, says social worker who became scapegoat

14.06.08

Eight years after Victoria Climbié's murder, the social worker who was made a scapegoat tells of her guilt, her grief and the little girl she can never leave behind.... more

Good weekend to stay at home

22.05.08

Bank Holiday travellers face severe disruption caused by rail and Tube engineering works, an estimated 18 million motorists on the road and blockaded Channel ferries... more

OFT probe targets 112 builders in 'bid scam'

17.04.08

112 construction firms accused by OFT of colluding to rip-off taxpayers in Ł3bn bid-rigging scandal... more

Stand up for Larkin, the true poet of the people

29.02.08

When Philip Larkin died in 1985, he was much the best-loved poet since the war (with the possible exception of Betjeman). That all changed with the publication of Larkin's previously uncollected poems and, in 1992, his Selected Letters. They revealed a lot more about Larkin and earned him excoriation as a racist and misogynist, fascist and porn addict... more