In today's PMQs, Ming Campbell asked the PM, with specific reference to the recent floods the following question: "The Prime Minister was responsible for the establishment of the Stern report which as he will recall pointed out the severe…

Government   The Ministry of Defence will have its budget increased by nearly £8bn over the next three years. In a statement to the Commons, defence secretary Des Browne told MPs that the added investment was part of announcements ahead of…

Andrew Pierce, Assistant Editor of the Telegraph, reviewing PMQs on Radio 5Live today, was laughing at how Brown had once again stolen the Tories' clothes (this time, on border police), leaving Cameron "standing naked at the dispatch box…

Interesting post over at Bearwatch, on the recent purchase by the UK government of a huge quantity of US securities, and the risks to both the American currency, and to British reserves as a knock-on effect. As we all know now (and some…

The Department for Transport (DfT) announced this morning that "Yorkshire commuters [are] at [the] heart of strategy for rail growth". Cleethorpes and Northallerton stations will be refurbished, bottlenecks around Leeds and Manchester will…

Government Drunken yobs are turning town centres into "no-go areas" after dark, often behaving like "an occupying army loose in the streets", a leading MP says today. Edward Leigh, the Tory chairman of the Commons public accounts committee…

Government   The transport secretary has set out plans to spend billions of pounds to ease overcrowding on trains. Ruth Kelly said £10bn would be invested by 2014 to increase services and make trains longer as she outlined the government's…

Another government policy has been exposed for its ineffectiveness and its lack of proper analysis in to the problem before implementation.  The Commons public accounts committee has reported that ASBOs are being handed out with little…

The unrelenting attack on the motorist continues and it is TfL that is leading the way.  Soon they will be charged £50 for even the briefest of swerves in to cycle lanes - and the cameras are watching be warned.  Now given the streets of…

Economists from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) have slammed the government’s new grant system to be introduced next year to university students. The reforms are aimed at attracting the poorest students to university by handing out…

Most of the papers have been responsible enough not to attribute the latest bad weather to climate-change, but guess which one is the exception? The Independent's lead story today is titled "After the deluge - scientists confirm global…

Last week's poll asked whether the £20 marriage tax credit that the Tories have been floating as an idea is a pointless money waster, so little as to be an insult to the institution of marriage or a good, effective promotion of marriage…