UK Politics and Current Events

Gordon Brown faces an embarrassing defeat at next month's Labour Party conference over the Government's refusal to impose a windfall tax on the energy companies. Supporters of a one-off raid on energy firms to fund help for people paying soaring fuel ...  

Britain's economy is teetering on the brink of recession as official figures showed that output ground to a halt between April and the end of June.  

Tony Blair has done a pretty good job of keeping out of domestic politics since he left Downing Street last year.  

With the summer vacation from politics coming to an end, Russian tanks camped in Georgia, employment and inflation on the rise, house prices tumbling, and the social fabric rent, Britain faces some hard choices in both the domestic and foreign policy ...  

Survey participants were selected randomly from Government Executive magazine's subscriber base of federal decision-makers. The survey was completed by 197 ...  

But the movement’s leaders are deeply reactionary: the “new politics” that they have been preaching is in fact a return to old, pre-democracy politics with ...  

By Noah Shachtman August 26, 2008 | 12:23:00 PMCategories: Biometrics, Iraq's Insanity Iraq's government and Sunni militias appear to be headed for a ...  

The state, traditionally Republican in presidential politics, is an important battleground this election. The Democrats consider Warner a rising star--he's ...  

By Teresa Budasi on August 26, 2008 9:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics by Joe Biden has become ...  

On Monday, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ordered the government to return the funds the plaintiffs had paid as upfront bonuses for rights ...  

A July report by the Government Accountability Office, for instance, found that Medicare has paid as much as $92 million since 2000 to suppliers who billed ...  

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's government is grateful to US-allied Sunni fighters but won't allow them to keep their weapons indefinitely, the prime minister said ...  

Extremists on both sides of religion and government issues are deeply disappointed. The thin slice of religious people in America who are theocrats have ...  

Atnit said he and Biden, the longest-serving senator in Delaware history, never talk politics, preferring instead to relish the simple pleasures of everyday ...  

By CHRISTOPHER QUINN Religious conservatives are having a change of heart about mixing politics and religion, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life says. ...