Archive of February 2015

SPlit: Calls for public smoking ban have divided the anti-tobacco lobby

Call for public smoking ban splits anti-tobacco lobby

Demands for a ban on smoking in UK parks and outdoor spaces have split the anti-tobacco movement, with leading figures engaged in an increasingly bad-tempered war of words on the issue

Lobbying scandal: Rifkind falls on his sword

Malcom Rifkind has announced that he is stepping down as chair of the intelligence and security committee and as a member of parliament, a day after videos emerged showing him trying to secure employment with a made-up Chinese firm.
EU directive will monitor MPs' bank transactions

Thousands of Britain's most important figures in public life could have their banking transactions monitored closely under new rules from Brussels.

Revealed: Police arrests on Twitter and Facebook

Over 355 people have been charged or cautioned for messages on social media, many of them for causing 'offence', new research has revealed.
Revealed: How the UK funded Kim Jong-un's spin doctors

The Foreign Office has finally abandoned its policy of funding the North Korean regime's spin doctors. But the question remains: why was it doing so in the first place?

Poll shock: Is this the long promised Tory swing?

An ICM/Guardian poll has put the Conservatives four points ahead of Labour, raising expectations among some political pundits of a long-promised swing to the governing party.
Coalition law leaves 50,000 without debt advice

Ministers are refusing to use cash from payday lender fines to fund charities offering debt advice. Don't they realise this looks bad?

Cyclists are to blame for road deaths: TfL board member

TfL board members attempt to block Johnson's cycle safety plans
Tories want to ram home Evel - whatever the other parties think

The Conservative approach to English votes for English laws (Evel) isn't about finding the answer to a difficult question any more. It's about winning the general election.