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The Airports Commission isn’t due to make its final report until 2015, but in a week where the future of Heathrow has already been in the news, it has produced a short-list of options for expanding the UK’s airport capacity. Set up in 2012 and headed up by Sir Howard Davies, the...

In a sign of discord between elements in the Conservative and Liberal Democrat alliance, Nick Clegg has slammed the leaked Home Office proposals that were published in the Sunday Times this weekend. Talking about a proposal to cap the number of immigrants from the European Union...

George Osborne is likely to be fuming over a report by the Committee on Climate Change this week that not only supports the existing carbon budget set in 2011, but says that it should be tightened. Even more irritatingly for the Chancellor, who seems to have a warm working...

The Commons public accounts committee has announced that the Border Force – which oversees the security of British rail, sea and airports – has failed to meet eight of its nineteen key performance targets this year. While the ministers on the committee acknowledged that great...

From the outburst in the media, you might have been excused for thinking that Nelson Mandela’s death was sudden and unexpected. On the other hand, when he was allowed to return home three months ago to continue his fight against a lung infection, it was against a background of...

So, the Autumn Statement has begun, but I have to admit I’m furious about the statements surrounding the decision to increase the pension age at an even faster rate than before. Some incredibly broad brush justifications were rolled out for this that seem to suggest that a cookie...

By comparison with the 2012 Autumn Statement, Thursday is expected to be a lot less like a mini-Budget. Last year saw huge interventions in people’s personal financial situations, so what are we expecting to see affect people’s wallets this time around? The hope of course is that...

On Thursday George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, will be giving his Autumn Statement. As is generally traditional these days, the headline elements of that speech are already being shared around to raise interest and political capital. On Monday we had confirmation of...

I found myself in something of a dilemma while looking at the papers this week. I have this cherished mental image – perhaps foolishly – of being a generally reasonable and moderately self-aware individual. Moreover, I generally tend to have a default position of repugnance...

Months after howls of derision met the Labour Party’s pledge to set a hold on energy bills for twenty months if they win the next election, the Conservative-led coalition has been embarrassed by suggestions that they have asked the main six energy providers to not put up their...