While MPs are keen to discuss food chain dangers, they are wilfully indifferent to Britain's most feral beast, the…

David Cameron's party is dancing a hokey cokey after Eastleigh. If they don't watch out, warns Ed Jacobs, poli…

A miserable process even Jeffrey Archer would hesitate to put in a novel unravelled 10 years of success built upon lie…

Ed Jacobs, the Guardian Northerner's political commentor, looks at polls which suggest that George Osborne may nee…

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The debate about who can vote in next year's referendum and why has begun in earnest: why give it to 16 and 17 yea…

London plans to spend more on bicycle lanes in the next decade than Greater Manchester has on all public transport inf…

What is holding Britain back from a stronger recovery is that there simply isn't enough demand in the economy Sh…

With nothing in the economic cupboard, the Chancellor would do well to follow the later and less well-known verses of …

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Back when the Beatles were having their first number one, the government spent £12bn a year, now it's nearer £700…

My hunch is that David Cameron has been forced to retreat, facing a defeat in the Commons Share 113 inShare0 Ema…

Without tax income the government has to borrow more from the markets. Ahead of the 2013 budget, here is the historic …

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The Guardian Northerner's political commentor Ed Jacobs checks out regional reaction to the nocturnal deals down s…