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When Bob Diamond, Chief Executive of Barclays Bank, appeared before the House of Commons Treasury Committee in January 2011, he proclaimed t...

When it comes to historic handshakes, it wasn’t right up there with the best of them – one thinks of the Bill Clinton-sponsored greeting bet...

It was such a sad sight, as I climbed off my train at St Pancras yesterday morning. A couple in their thirties, she wiping away his face-pai...

Since the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) went belly up, leading to a multi-billion pound bale out by the British taxpayer (in our generosity),...

My father was anything but a radical lefty. In his life, most of which was spent away from Britain, he took part in only one election, in 19...

This morning, when I looked out of the window at the muggy grey beyond, it became clear that the only times when there wasn’t a threat of im...

How tough life is in politics. It’s almost enough to make me feel sorry for politicians. Were it not for the fact that for every one that ge...