Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population

The only living politician mentioned by Andy Burnham during his jam tomorrow speech to the Labour party conference was John Swinney, and that was only in order to take a nasty, underhanded and emot…

We asked TBI about allegations of £500,000 corporate memberships and a logo that vanished at Labour conference. They said they’re not talking to us anymore

Politicians and economic commentators constantly talk about “taxpayers’ money”. In this video, I argue that this phrase fundamentally misrepresents how government spending and taxation work. The conventional story says that the government collects taxes and then uses that money to pay for schools, hospitals, pensions and other public services. I argue...

Big Four giant Deloitte's new UK boss, Darren Graves, insisted AI “can’t replace lived experience” as the firm's advisory arms return to growth.

Westminster creates the mess. Then the Prime Minister uses that mess as an excuse to keep Scotland trapped in the system that caused it. That’s hypocrisy. Scotland deserves the powers to tackle our ...

Westminster creates the mess. Then the Prime Minister uses that mess as an excuse to keep Scotland trapped in the system that caused it. That’s hypocrisy. Scotland deserves the powers to tackle our ...

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Mark Mansfield Plaid Cymru has challenged Andy Burnham to match his promise of a “new politics” with more powers for Wales. Responding to the Prime Minister’s Labour conference speech, the party’s Wes...

Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over supposed evidence placing him at an Atlanta Hawks game. There was just one problem: It was the Iowa Hawkeyes.

A LABOUR minister has been panned for “vile and deeply ignorant” comments about Glasgow schools ...

I was supposed to have been going to Lochgilphead today to do an event for Aye Fyne, but here I am at home nursing a very painful ankle and hirpling gingerly about the house – but only when I…

Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’

Pro-independence groups from Scotland, Wales and the island of Ireland have met to discuss how they can work together