Clegg: We must leave comfort zone
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Nick Clegg launches campaign for Liberal Democrat leadership.
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School leavers are to be entitled to post-GCSE places, but there are fears too few know of the right.
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An MP proposes England and Wales move to Continental Time, leaving the Scots and Northern Irish to follow if they wish.
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New Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg says education is his "biggest enthusiasm" in politics.
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It&#39;s a sad reflection on the pace of modern life that many in football have already lost sight of Brian Clough&#39;s achievements.
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By Anonymous  Risk-free areas are anathema to good design, say open-space watchdogs, who have railed against "bland, bleak and barrierridden spaces". CABE director Sarah Gaventa said many public spaces were created with a "worst-case scenario" in mind, not normal behaviour.
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Sometimes it&#39;s hard to be a woman: break through the glass ceiling, and you find yourself on the edge of a glass cliff. Alex Haslam, a social psychologist at Exeter University, told the British Association
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New Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg uses his New Year message to promise his party a "momentous" 2008.
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Don't let anyone else decide how comfortable your retirement will be.
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SECURITY chiefs warned last year of the threat of a &quot;horrifying&quot; attack by a suicide bomber on the House of Commons. The revelation came today from leader of the Commons Peter Hain in the wake of the protest
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People wanting to settle in Britain must conform to its tolerant values or stay away, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Friday.
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Labour's deputy leadership contender Jon Cruddas says it is time for the party to move on from Blairism.
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Britain is over-reliant on anti-depressants and faces a crisis in mental health care, says Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg.
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Â· Climate fear not translated into action ICM showsÂ· Just 13% have been prompted to end flights
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She may or may not have been acting, but either way, when she sighed in New Hampshire and almost broke out in tears, and said how she feared that our country was heading from a bad place to a much worse place, she came close to expressing how many of us feel. Close but not quite there, because unlike the rest of us, she has a chance of being able to do something about it. The rest of us, Republican or Democrat, are going to have to sit by, and hope (there's Obama's word) that someone else can straighten out the mess, and really means it when they say that's what they want to do. On Twitter, a reminder from some Republican diehards from the south, of the supposed discourse we've had over the last five years about Iraq. "Cut and run" "Micromanage" It's all positioning, appealing to fear. Of course I don't want to cut and run. Nor do I want to micromanage.  Can we macromanage, or do we have to shut up and watch? Our president used the term World War III, he actually spoke the words, as an optional American-started thing. This is the horror that makes us feel like HIllary did that day in New Hampshire. In the sixties, the hardhats used to yell "America love it or leave it" to protestors. They had no clue about the country they were defending. Its strength is that you can love it, disagree with the people who run it, and not leave it. Even better, come Election Day, you can overthrow them, in a bloodless coup, and march down Pennsyvlania Avenue to celebrate. It's all right there in the Constitution. (But you don't get to hang the guy you overthrew.) Watching the Republican debate in Myrtle Beach, SC on Thurs night, the loutness of the Republicans was striking. First, the way they shouted down Ron Paul, who like HIllary, raised questions that most of us have. Why are we in Iraq? They laughed when he asked. Not only didn't any of them answer it, but none of them had the presence to realize that the majority of Americans who wonder the same thing might be offended by their laughter. I certainly was. When did dismissing an opinion you don't like become a proper response for someone seeking our vote? Any one of them could have said "I may not agree with Ron Paul, but please let him speak, and let him have our respect." Any of the others could have closed the deal in that moment. None of them had the guts to do it.  I also was struck by the gungho rhetoric about going to war with Iran. It was like one of those war movies where the young guys rush to sign up wanting to teach the Kaiser a lesson, or the Commies or whoever the demon du jour is. The movies almost always teach that war is hell, by the time the war is actually underway everyone wishes it were over. The way wars start is with spit and vinegar, vim and vigor, talk of pride and honor, but they quickly devolve to misery, futility, death, devastation. My generation learned that early-on, with Vietnam. I don't remember anyone thinking we should be there. I missed being drafted by luck. I thought for sure that my generation would never choose to go to war. I was wrong. But I didn't imagine that, after creating such a quagmire in Iraq, which we still haven't extracted ourselves from, we would be so quick to conjure up another futile war. War with Iran is a crazy, crazy idea. All evidence is that Iran has actually been trying to work with us since 9/11. Even if they weren't, as Ron Paul says, they're a third world country, no threat to us. That the Republicans would contemplate war with Iran, with such colorful gunghoisms (gates of hell, introduce them to their virgins), this is where HIllary hit the nerve. Could we be in for another four years of lunacy? Will those who object be called unpatriotic?  Could a Republican actually win this year? Who thought Bush could actually be re-elected at this time in 2004?  I heard on one of the Sunday talk shows that the reason Republicans don't like Ron Paul is they think he's anti-American. I've listened to him, if you take him at face-value, which I do, his ideas seem radical, unimplementable, but un-American? He's fervently pro-American. He says we should fix our own house, it's falling apart, instead of trying to control others (which doesn't work). How would we feel if our country were occupied by foreign troops? Would we do everything we can to expel them? (Of course.) Why should we expect any other country to be different? I've been saying the same thing since our invasion of Iraq in 2003. Ron Paul has the guts to say the madness is mad. He's the only one in either party who does that, though Obama comes close, and in her New Hampshire moment Hillary did too.  I want someone to win my vote by telling me how good I am, not how bad the other guy is. I see through it, I know the Dems don't want to micromanage, they don't wake up in the morning looking for ways to lose. I know they're not cowards. All this sloganeering has done is make us weary of ourselves. I want to get started fixing things, if not now -- when? That's the nerve that Hillary hit.
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By Joanna Geary  Birmingham needs a strong visionary leader to tackle worsening traffic pollution and poor housing, the coauthor of a major environmental report has warned.
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Former PM speaks of struggle to adjust to normal life after a decade inside the Downing Street cocoon.