Tony Blair and the £8million tax 'mystery' The Daily Telegraph Former Prime Minister Tony Blair channelled millions of pounds through a complicated web of companies and paid just a fraction in tax, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal. | Tony Blair channelled millions of pounds through a complicated web of companies. Photo: Getty | By Robert Mendick, Chief Repo...
Occupy London activists take over disused former bank The Guardian | Protesters move from Sun Street base of past 10 weeks to former Rafidain Bank building in Leadenhall Street The Occupy London Bank of Ideas in the Sun Street building. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian | The Occupy movement in London has h...
Ministry of Sound urges London Mayor Boris Johnson to 'Save Our Club' Digital Spy Ministry of Sound has written to London Mayor Boris Johnson to urge him to reconsider plans that would force the closure of the superclub. | The club last year fought off initial proposals to develop a residential building opposite the venue. | Minis...
Why not benchmark RBS bonuses against the Bank of England? The Guardian | Are these RBS executives so valuable that the bank would fall apart without them? Does the threat of mass resignations, even if unspoken, have force? Sir Philip Hampton, chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland, argued that the board was trying to 'recon...
Leveson inquiry: Lord Grade to give evidence The Guardian | Veteran media executive to join Ofcom and past and present PCC executives in giving views on future of press watchdog Leveson inquiry: Lord Grade is to give evidence on the PCC. Photograph: Paul Grover/Rex Features | The veteran media and entertain...
Media Lens shows it doesn't get the whole picture The Guardian | The tofu-knitting liberal media should not be immune from criticism but naive, nit-picking Media Lens must sharpen its focus "Jon Snow, a national treasure and more good for progressive attitudes than half a dozen John Pilgers." Photograph: David L...
Iggy Arroyo dies in London Sun Star | NEGROS Occidental Representative Ignacio "Iggy" Tuazon Arroyo Jr. (5th district) died early Thursday night in London after his life support system was pulled out. He suffered a cardiac arrest around 10:30 a.m. (Philippine time). | He was 60 years o...
Andrew Lansley calls BMA 'politically poisoned' for opposing NHS shakeup The Guardian | Health secretary infuriates doctors' union by repeating description first used by founding father of the NHS Relations between Andrew Lansley and Britain’s doctors hits new low. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images | Relations between the health ...
How high fliers are failed: Two thirds of top achievers at 11 not taking key GCSEs The Daily Mail | Two-thirds of bright teenagers are failing to achieve a clutch of tough, academic GCSEs as they are pushed towards ‘softer’ options. | More than 111,000 are missing out on rigorous qualifications which are required by leading universiti...
CWG issues cast shadow on UK-India ties: British lawmakers The Times Of India LONDON: British lawmakers today criticised the findings of an Indian government appointed committee looking into irregularities in the 2010 CWG games, saying problems of the mega sporting event continue to cast a "long shadow" over bilateral ties. | ...
UK could become 'smuggling hub' for herbal high khat BBC News The UK could become a hub for smuggling the herbal stimulant khat, European police and politicians have warned. | The Netherlands is the latest country to outlaw the sale of the plant, which is now banned in sixteen EU member states and Norway. | Khat is freely sold in the UK and observers say the UK's isolated stance could make it the main base fo...
So, what have the Scots ever done for us? Just 101 of the innovations Caledonia ... The Independent | Misappropriated as the philosophical father of our money, money, money culture, the absent-minded Scottish Enlightenment philosopher spent a decade writing The Wealth of Nations. He studied at the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford – and considered the teaching at the former superior. | Bank of England | Sir Mervyn King has Sir William Paterson...
