George Osborne’s astounding U-turn on a payday loan costs cap was greeted with glee from the left and confusion from the right.
It is a victory for the legal loan sharks campaigners, but it isn’t complete.
The growth in payday lending has...
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The topics of energy prices, fuel poverty and the big six energy companies have filled newspaper headlines for weeks so it may come as no surprise that today hundreds of people have gathered in Central London, Oxford and Bristol for...
Why aren't there more women in STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths), and why do their numbers decline as they progress further up the academic career ladder? The Science and Technology Select Committee has been considering this problem, along...
I’ll dare to say it: amid concerns that the government is selling off parts of the NHS and privatising the service through the back door, the NHS has become the best business opportunity in Britain today.
The National Health Service is...
You wait ages for some good news from Transport for London to come along and then, as the saying doesn’t quite go, more job cuts are announced at the same time.
Woozy nightclubbers and boozy bar-hoppers will raise a glass to...
For a party whose members often pride themselves on being defenders of the UK’s unwritten constitution, it is surprising how Conservative MPs have recently shown little regard for conventions - some of which were considered so important as to be...