The Olympics was going to be the event that saved Britain from the recession. Like the royal wedding and the jubilee before it, the hype was that it would provide huge economic growth.
Barclays boss Jerry del Missier has walked off with £8.75 million despite admitting illegally rigging Libor interest rates.
It’s a little unnerving when the representatives of global capitalism say we need to make fewer cuts.
Poor old fat cats. They can’t even avoid their tax without causing a backlash.
A man smoked an e-cigarette on a Megabus coach last week.
The Tories seem to think the "Big Society" can deal with the floods sweeping swathes of Britain. But it doesn’t look like it.
David Cameron called comedian Jimmy Carr "morally wrong" for using Jersey to pay just one percent tax on his £3.3 million income.
A quarter of the richest people in Britain are Tory party donors—and they have handed Cameron and co a massive £83 million.
Kate Middleton’s parents have splashed out £4.7 million on a new mansion after the queen’s jubilee got the tills ringing at their firm Party Pieces.
More bad news for Newsnight’s political editor Allegra Stratton, whose vicious interview with a woman on benefits sparked outrage.
Our fat cat of the week is Martin Baggs, chief executive of Thames Water.
David Cameron’s mantra about the Leveson inquiry is that all politicians "got too close" to Murdoch. But behind that is the truth about how deep he was drawn into the Murdoch web. Again and again he has had to admit more meetings with the Murdochs.
