The Adam Smith Institute blog pointed to the new publication on Regulatory Impact Assessments (RIAs) from the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) a couple of days ago, but this is a sufficiently important issue that I didn't want to simply let…

**Government  ** Humans are to blame for carrying the foot and mouth virus from laboratories in Pirbright, investigators into the outbreak in Surrey believe. The initial, inconclusive report from the Health and Safety Executive says there…

I can't even be bothered to explain why - I think he just is. Anyone else agree?

A lot of commentary today on the results of Key Stage 2 tests of 11-year-olds' abilities at the "Three Rs" (Reading, Writing, Maths and Science). As a statistical observation, the problem appears to lie particularly with the Writing part of…

Government London's economic prosperity could be put at risk if the government holds back on funding Crossrail and further delays plans to build the multi-billion-pound rail link, the Mayor of London warned on Monday. Ken Livingstone said…

Last week's poll asked whether the Environment Agency executives deserved their whopping bonuses this year in light of the recent flooding throughout the UK. Only 2% of you felt that they should have their bonuses withdrawn. 19% of you felt…

Home Planet today, Dr Lynn Dicks, pronouncing on the relative merits of recycling and landfilling, in terms of energy-consumption and carbon-footprint, said: "Various people have looked at this from the point of view of greenhouse gas…

In just a couple days the nation's sixteen year olds will be receiving news of how they have done in their GCSEs and the following week it will be the turn of A-level students.  It is traditional, therefore, this time of year to tell all…

**Government ** The government has set out a national strategy aimed at tackling dementia. Currently, there are around 600,000 people with dementia in England,  costing the economy over £14bn per year, and the amount of sufferers is set to…

The Department for Transport is to publish a consultation report it commissioned on cutting the death toll amongst younger drivers in the autumn. The major proposal is increasing the age limit for gaining a full driving licence to by a year…

Government   Royal Mail was yesterday embroiled in a new row over bonus payments to a senior executive amid continuing industrial action by postal workers over pay and working practices. Post office managing director Alan Cook was yesterday…

Last Friday, the LibDems launched "new transport polices to create a zero carbon transport system by 2050." And no one noticed. Not even their website, which carried the press release, but doesn't seem to carry the document, -Towards Carbon…