Maybe David Cameron, Britain's Prime Minister, was considering the fate of Ai Weiwei's Shanghai Studio, when he gave his carefully worded speech on 10 November 2010 in front of a group of Beijing University students. Mr Ai, who designed the 2008 Beijing Olympic Stadium, had made documentaries about Chinese dissidents and human rights issues, which, it would appear, were not to the liking of the authorities. It turns out that his studio in Shanghai has not got proper planning permission a...
This week a rather extraordinary thing happened in the European Parliament, a body which gets far too little attention, given how much EU bodies are increasingly playing a part in running this country.
North Korea's latest tantrum, which has cost the lives of two South Korean soldiers, is a worrying development in the region, which appears to be getting more unstable every year thanks to the unpredictable actions of the murderous regime in Pyongyang.
The British Prime Minister had a good visit to China but received no praise for his part at the G20 Summit in Seoul, South Korea, immediately after. On his return to the Commons on 15 November 2010, Harriet Harman, standing in for Ed Miliband, hurled the jibe at Mr Cameron: "Britain needed to send a statesman to this summit but all we sent was a spectator."
The British government looks likely to loan Ireland around seven billion pounds as part of a bailout deal for the debt-struck nation.
The Irish government has confirmed that it will receive a bailout from the European Union, following a week of speculation and pressure on the country.
The West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit has claimed that group's such as the English Defence League are responsible for "encouraging" the radicalisation of young Muslims in parts of Britain, a claim the EDL has strongly denied.
Maybe because they were heading in that direction for the G20 Summit in Seoul, unusually, someone in the Government must have hit upon the bright idea of taking along a fairly large business delegation for a stopover in Beijing. With the G20 conference widely expected beforehand to dissolve into a G2 summit between the world's two largest economies, Britain and America - sorry, a hundred year slip - China and America. With the UK playing a somewhat marginal role at best, this was splendid f...
The European Union, a body of which I am no fan, has shown today that it is capable of being of some use to people and businesses in Europe.
It was said, by the writer Irving Kristol I believe, that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. I can't help but think that I received such a mugging yesterday from George W. Bush.
After most of the results were declared for America's 2010 Midterm Election last week, the Democrats won consolations whilst the Republicans, at first glance, have most to celebrate. The Republicans won back the Lower House, narrowly lost the Upper House and have a large majority of the State Governors. The real loser was President Obama who was not finding office too easy with majorities in both Houses, a majority that until the loss to the Republicans of Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts se....
Nigel Farage has been re-elected to serve as leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party just one year after giving up the job.
2010 may well be regarded as one of mixed fortunes for Britain's renewable energy industries; a year opening with triumphs and ending with a few tribulations. Here's a brief resumé of some of the progress made to date in the task of reducing the UK's dependence on fossil fuels and an indication that there is still a long way to go.
Tim Montgomerie has made the brave journey from the comforts of his ConservativeHome website into the enemy territory known as the Guardian's Comment is Free pages and has launched a brief and well mannered attack on extreme Labour rhetoric.
It always amazed me, even in the days of black-and-white television, that almost as soon as the Budget was announced, the BBC would be interviewing a poor soul who was about to suffer Dickensian poverty in its wake. Less usual after the present Government's Spending Review announced to Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne on Wednesday, 20 October 2010, was the media being quite so spoilt for victim choice.
The Coalition government's Comprehensive Spending Review, announced yesterday by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has drawn a mixed reaction from business, unions and economists.
Shares in British banks were up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading, following the Comprehensive Spending Review outlined yesterday by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.
Today the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, will be outlining £89 billion in government cuts in the Comprehensive Spending Review, following his Emergency Budget in June. Follow our coverage here to find out what's being cut and what's not.
Shares in Stobart dived on the FTSE 250 in morning trading after the logistics company reduced its full year profit forecast due to concerns about government cuts.
Shares in British banks were mixed on the FTSE 100 in morning trading ahead of the Coalition government's Comprehensive Spending Review, the details of which are to be announced today.
A gaffe by Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander has revealed that half a million job losses are set to emerge in the upcoming Spending Review - a Government strategy to cut the deficit released today.
The Coalition government is due to unveil its plan to wipe out Britain's structural deficit by 2014/15 in its Comprehensive Spending Review, due to be announced on Wednesday.
Some of Britain's top business leaders have called on Chancellor George Osborne to "press ahead" with plans to cut the deficit and has said that the private sector will be "more than capable" to create jobs in the wake of job cuts in the public sector.
On 14 October 2010, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Governor of California and former "Terminator" actor, was photographed on the steps of No. 10 Downing Street meeting his friend and British Prime Minister, David Cameron. Mr Cameron joked with the gathered reporters that the Governor would help to "terminate the budget deficit", before the pair turned and walked back into No 10. There is little doubt that the deficits of both the UK and California would be amongst the topics the two po...
The Office of Fair Trading has welcomed the news from the Coalition government that it is to be merged with the Competition Commission.
The government has said that it will be scrapping or taking direct control over 192 quasi-autonomous non-government organisations or Quangos in its bid to reduce the size of the deficit and the state.
London is expected to see the largest number of job losses as a result of government cuts, but Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and North-east England are likely to suffer more proportionally, a new report claims.
The Trades Union Congress has expressed concerns that unemployment figures, due out tomorrow, could show what it called a "new crisis" in youth unemployment.
Richard Lambert, the outgoing Director General of the Confederation of British Industry, has called for an end to "the dialogue of the deaf" between bankers, politicians and the public and has encouraged bankers to abstain from "toxic" bonuses at a time of public sector cuts.
The final, practical outcome of Labour's Conference, the election of the Shadow Cabinet and their allotted roles on the Opposition Benches was announced last week. A process, seen by many in Labour's own ranks as needlessly complex, excluded some former Cabinet members of previous administrations and allowed the new Labour Leader, Ed Miliband, to stamp his own authority on his cohort by deciding the precise roles each of the elected will play. Mr Miliband's choice for the post of Sha...
