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Home Secretary is right to admit immigration mistakes

03.11.09

Former home secretary John Reid backs the man currently in the post and also admitted the Government had made mistakes over immigration... more

Labour let 40,000 migrants stay ‘to clear backlog target’

09.10.09

Home Office accused of 'bending the rules' on asylum so it can meet a promise to clear a backlog of 450,000 cases by 2011... more

Gordon Brown’s shift towards a Two Nation Britain

30.09.09

The PM made his pitch to stay in power by attacking the Tories’ empathy with the well-off. A brave move — but it won’t save him... more

Our Afghanistan role must be made clear

17.08.09

Military commanders in Afghanistan have said that soldiers’ morale is unshaken by five new casualties this weekend... more

NHS access to IVF getting worse, study finds

06.08.09

Access to IVF on the NHS is getting worse, according to a report whcih shows that eight out of 10 primary care trusts are failing to follow guidelines allowing women three free cycles... more

We must cut excessive pay in the public sector

04.08.09

If we want to know how public spending mounts up, we can get some insight from the pay of police and doctors... more

Give our troops in Afghanistan the equipment to do the job

13.07.09

Opinion about the British presence in Afghanistan is evenly divided, according to an ICM poll published today. But even after a bloody 10 days in which 15 soldiers have been killed, the war is justified... more

Only a serious shake-up can end this Afghan mess

13.07.09

We have had a progressively dysfunctional Parliament and government since 2002. In the confusion over Afghanistan, we are now seeing the culmination of the dysfunctional handling of our defence forces over the same period... more

More troops die in Afghanistan in blackest week yet

10.07.09

Criticism of the war in Afghanistan increased as it was announced that two more British soldiers have been killed, meaning nine serviceman have died in the last nine days... more

City Spy: Slaughtered — by a Ł22m legal bill

25.06.09

Liberal Democrat peer Lord Oakeshott says he was “staggered” to find out Slaughter and May cost the Treasury Ł22 million last year for legal advice on the credit crunch... more

Cameron pays back almost Ł1,000 in wrongly claimed expenses

18.06.09

David Cameron repaid almost Ł1,000 in excessive expenses claims as the row over Commons allowances reignited... more

Prince Charles in shock Chelsea barracks victory

12.06.09

Exclusive: Plans for the Ł3billion Chelsea barracks development have been scrapped in an astonishing victory for Prince Charles... more

Labour's playground antics show it has run out of time

08.06.09

What a shower. If they were in the City, they wouldn't last a second. I write, of course, of the Labour hierarchy that, for the time being at least, is nominally in charge of this country ... more

Reid ‘told PM to stand down at No 10 meeting’

04.06.09

Labour heavyweight John Reid has told Gordon Brown that he should consider quitting, the Standard has learned... more

Rise of the strays: Who hasn't had a partner who is now with the other sex?

28.05.09

As Rosamund Pike reveals her ex-lover is with Christopher Bailey, Sarah Standing says who hasn't had a partner who is now with the other sex?... more

What they claimed: MPs expenses in full

12.05.09

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The key figures who got it wrong

16.04.09

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Knives out for Sir Victor at dons' high table

20.03.09

No one seems to have a good word for Sir Victor Blank, chairman of Lloyds, who happily signed up to the merger of HBOS without, as his chief executive admits, doing anywhere near enough due diligence... more

New law to allow Catholics to be monarch

10.12.08

New laws are being drafted to allow a Catholic to become king or queen, a Cabinet minister said... more

Smith rebuked for not challenging raid police

04.12.08

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was sharply criticised in the Commons by her Labour predecessor over the handling of the Damian Green arrest... more

Never has it been more important to stand up for the whistle-blowers

04.12.08

The outrage over the arrest of MP Damian Green has obscured the fact that his informant was also acting in what he saw as the public interest... more

Yard is hunting for more moles across Whitehall

04.12.08

More police investigations are under way into Whitehall leaks, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has indicated... more

Warner Bros British MD goes

03.10.08

Media: Warner Brothers, Britain's third-biggest record label, is parting ways with its managing director... more

Labour fears Glasgow election on knife-edge

24.07.08

A last-minute attack of nerves hit Labour today as the crucial Glasgow East by-election came to a nail-biting finish... more

Met 'fixes figures by deterring victims from reporting crimes'

17.04.08

Parts of the Met are deliberately preventing Londoners from reporting crime to keep the figures down, an official report has found... more

Is it the beginning of the end for Gordon?

16.04.08

As the PM's authority is hit by economic woes, an edgy party is beginning to wonder if he can still claim to be a winner for Labour... more

Dance of the detainee

13.11.07

The duo behind Honour Bound, Nigel Jamieson and Garry Stewart, reveal how the plight of one Guantánamo Bay detainee inspired their latest piece of spectacular dance theatre.... more

Blair's an easy target

07.06.07

Taking Liberties claims the Tony Blair government has eroded so many of people's liberties things may never be the same again... more

Gould breathes new life into Schoenberg

04.05.07

Thomas Gould and John Reid projected passion, mystery and suspense in their recital of Schoenberg.... more

Dining dens where the plot thickens

13.09.06

Forget the Commons - London's finest restaurants are where all of the real political scheming takes place, as former Labour minister Gerald Kaufman reveals.... more