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With rain and wind lashing the British Isles and numerous flood warnings continuing to be raised both around rivers and along the coast, attention has turned to the substantial cuts made to the environment department. Government spending on flood defences has become a topic of...

A whole extravaganza of new rules and legislations went live with the New Year, and while this is nothing particularly new, there are some particularly odd things floating around on the radar this year. We’re not talking here about how as a business you can now get fined for...

Well, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone – hopefully you’ve been one of the lucky families who have had the good side of the Dickensian Christmas that we seem to be trying to emulate, rather than the bad side that so many people trapped in poverty have had to...

The embattled Work and Pensions Secretary, Ian Duncan Smith, is at odds with the Trussel Trust this week. The food bank charity has been trying to engage with the Government over its concerns about the increase in calls for its services since changes to the Benefits system began...

Today’s papers were largely concerned with coverage of Vince Cable’s comments on Sunday about the current furore over immigration. Following on from Nick Clegg’s comments about the illegality of leaked plans by the Home Office to try and introduce a cap of 75000 people per year...

As I was walking into my local post office to send off assorted parcels to my extended family around the country, I was confronted with angry headlines on tabloid newspapers. They were urging the Prime Minister to adopt a hard line on immigration, using language like “Draw a red...

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...