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Migrants may have to “earn the right” to some welfare payments under plans being considered by the Labour Party. Deputy leader Harriet Harman said the party was considering toughening up the rules as she acknowledged […]

Welcome to 2014. Here is Britain’s prime minister posing with some blacked-up Morris dancers David Cameron was pictured with his daughter Florence at the Banbury Folk Festival on Saturday. From i100

The number of people in work in the UK has finally returned to pre-recession levels. But is everything as rosy as it seems? As this map shows, the growth in jobs has regional variations, despite […]

Sister act? BBC journalist Martina Purdy has quit her job to join a religious congregation as a nun. What is she leaving behind? With 25 years in journalism, 15 of which were with the BBC, […]

Tony Blair is calling for an urgent global agreement to teach religious respect as he warns that action against extremist groups will otherwise “count for nothing”. In an essay for the BBC, the former prime […]

Even by the standards of political leaders, the speed and scale of the broken promise about Scotland has been glorious. Two days after signing a “vow” to hand over “extensive new powers”, David Cameron announced […]

David Cameron has been accused of hiding behind a “smokescreen” to block proposals by broadcasters for three TV debates involving party leaders in the six-week general election campaign next year. The Prime Minister insisted he […]

A 1978 banned BBC radio interview recently surfaced where former Sex Pistols singer Johnny Rotten, real name John Lydon, reveals that he and others at the BBC knew about Jimmy Savile but the BBC would […]

Scotland’s Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has defiantly said that the country achieving independence will be a “when, not an if” – despite voters opting out of breaking the 307-year old union with England on […]