PMQs took a break last week for 'constituency recess', a week where politicians are supposed to spend more time with their voters. HuffPost's experience was one of foreign ring tones on MPs' and Special Advisers' mobiles, which then cut straight to voicemail, but never mind, it's the thought that counts. Read more ...
Alex Hern presents the data you need to join the campaign to end workfare. Read more ...
Parts of the Syrian city of Homs are being bombarded by shells in what witnesses are describing as the heaviest attack in days. Read more ...
She was not rare. Women who cover conflicts are frequently better at it than men. But Marie Colvin, who has reportedly been killed in Syria, was peerless. Read more ...
All the key points, analysis and reaction as David Cameron faces his weekly Commons grilling from MPs. Read more ...
11 March 2011An opposition fighter rest under a rebellion flag in the middle of the battlefield oil town Ras Lanouf in Libya. Read more ...
David Laws: We can cut taxes for middle- and lower-income Britain while asking for a bigger contribution from the top 1%-5% of earners [...] Read more ...
Unconfirmed reports from Syria say two Western journalists - an American and a French national - have been killed in the central city of Homs. Read more ...
Protests over the burning of the Koran by Nato troops are under way in the Afghan cities of Kabul and Jalalabad, with shots fired in the capital. Read more ...
Just over three weeks ago, 15 Lib Dems signed an EDM urging the government to abide by the ruling of the Information Commissioner and release the NHS “risk register”. The EDM said: “That this House expects the Government to respect the ruling by the Information Commissioner and to publish the risk register associated with the Health and Socia [...] Read more ...
Follow our live coverage of this week's prime minister's questions, with Ed Miliband taking on David Cameron once more. Read more ...
Statement from John Witherow, Editor of The Sunday Times on the death of Marie Colvin: -- I want to report with great shock the sad news of the death of Marie Colvin in Syria today. We have reliable reports that Marie was killed in Homs while covering the devastating bombardment by the Syrian army. Read more ...
The jury in a trial of a man accused of raping and murdering pregnant teenager Nikitta Grender resumes its deliberations for a second day. Read more ...
Marie Colvin, who has been killed in the Syrian city of Homs, was without doubt one of the finest foreign correspondents of her generation, and also one of the m [...] Read more ...
Marie Colvin: Today it was confirmed that the war correspondent Marie Colvin has died in the Syrian city of Homs. In November 2010 Colvin gave this speech on the importance of war reporting [...] Read more ...
A look back at the careers of the two Western journalists who have reportedly been killed in Syria. Read more ...
Can Barack Obama win re-election with the current employment rate? Read more ...
Join Andrew Sparrow for rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen, including PMQs and the NHS risk register debate [...] Read more ...
"Pressure on family finances is reaching boiling point and people need help. That is why Liberal Democrats believe we should be cutting taxes for millions of working people across this country. "The Liberal Democrat plan to make the first £10,000 you earn tax-free would deliver a £700 tax cut for ordinary working people -- that's an extra £60 of [...] Read more ...
Anti-capitalist protesters camping outside St Paul's Cathedral have been refused permission to challenge orders evicting them by the Court of Appeal. Read more ...
French television reporter Gilles Jacquier was killed in Homs last month as a shell exploded amid a group of journalists covering protests i [...] Read more ...
Claim of 500 defectors joining Free Syrian Army Last day of Mubarak's trial in Egypt Nine reported dead in Yemen election violence [...] Read more ...
“It’s true that SA revenues are a bit disappointing — it’s still early, but it looks like there’s been quite a lot of forestalling and other [...] Read more ...
Two men and two women arrested and bailed by police investigating fraud claims in government's work programme [...] Read more ...
One element of the economy, organised labour, provides direct financial support to some MPs through trade unions. But business is limited to [...] Read more ...
Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin makes moving address in defence of her craft at a commemoration for journalists killed on assignment [...] Read more ...
The CBI is calling on the Chancellor to use his March Budget to score the growth and investment policy goals he put forward in his Autumn Statement and give the UK economy and jobs a real boost [...] Read more ...
Doctors' and nurses' chiefs call for release of government's own analysis of dangers ahead of Commons debate [...] Read more ...
Foreign minister steps down, saying he has lost support of PM Gillard amid speculation he is plotting return to top job. Read more ...
That this House expects the Government to respect the ruling by the Information Commissioner and to publish the risk register associated with the Health and Social Care Bill reforms in advance of Report Stage in the House of Lords in order to ensure that [...] Read more ...
Yet even if we can address the skills gap, a more insidious problem remains. As the economy and technology have grown more complex, the geek [...] Read more ...
The Tory candidates who have come forward so far to stand as Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) have been "a massive disappointment" for Number 10, with more than three quarters of them either former or current members of the police authorities that are being scrapped, The Huffington Post UK understands. Read more ...
Oil prices in the UK today became the first of the major countries to set a new 2012 record. FT investment editor James Mackintosh examines the impact of oil prices on equities. Read more ...
Nik Darlington 6.01am Whatever the public relations disaster that will result, the Government must resist the frenzied clamour for the Department for Health to publish its risk register. Tomorrow, the Labour party has called an opposition day debate on the issue, so keeping up the pressure on the Government over its healthcare reforms. And MPs hav [...] Read more ...
Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is released after two days of questioning over an alleged prostitution ring. Read more ...
Ethiopian and Somali troops capture Baidoa, a strategic stronghold of al-Shabab Islamist militants in south-western Somalia. Read more ...
The web is the future of journalism, but let's be honest: the future isn't living up to expectations. Newspapers and magazines have cut back on in-depth reporting. Gossip sites have proliferated. The web has become a byword for fast and cheap. Why isn't it synonymous with fearless, investigative and enthralling writing? Read more ...
