Palin: We’re losing – eat some carbs

The US vice-presidential candidate tells how she got a shock when campaign chiefs proposed a new strategy - a nutritionist

My shopping list – by the first lady of business

The new CBI chief knows what she wants from the politicians

Calman falls short on Scots' power to tax

James Aitken and Graeme Blackett say Holyrood must be allowed to raise all the money it spends to be financially accountable

Brown blasted for weakness on youth unemployment

Measures to tackle youth unemployment have been blasted as inadequate by the economist David Blanchflower

Tories to demand: are you married?

Shadow home secretary pledges that a Conservative government would make it a priority to raise the status of married life

Citizenship language scam exposed

Immigrants who don’t understand English have been able to buy certificates that give them the right to settle in Britain

Baroness Ashton: EU couldn’t make it up

The plotting that led to an obscure bureaucrat heading the EU’s foreign service were even greater than first thought

Colleges rig immigrants’ English tests

Home Office approved certificates are awarded to candidates who can’t speak the language but want to stay in the UK

Bickering parents to get state therapy

Couples who squabble outside the school gates could be advised to take relationship counselling under a government initiative

Afghan pullout is ‘election ploy’ by Brown

Defence sources say PM wants to tell voters pre-election that a partial troop withdrawal will begin by Christmas next year

Lord Mandelson: 'Make me foreign secretary'

Business secretary is pressing the PM to reshuffle the cabinet so he can achieve his ambition of running the Foreign Office

Tory tells of communist past as Eric the Red

Eric Pickles has revealed for the first time his passion for Leon Trotsky and Karl Marx as a teenager growing up in Yorkshire

Home Secretary: Police should visit every victim

Alan Johnson says everyone who suffers as a result of crime should be seen and spoken to by their local force

Iraq war Protester Brian Haw: enemy at the gates

The 3,000-day protest of obsessive campaigner Brian Haw, who has paid a high personal price for his anti-war zeal

Tories want to pull Army out of Germany

Liam Fox, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, said it was 'no longer necessary' to keep more than 20,000 personnel in Europe

Palin biography makes waves

Palinmania is back. But can the poster girl of the Right ever be a serious contender for the White House?

Balls’ warning over ‘creationism in schools’

Ed Balls claims that Tory plans to scrap National Curriculum controls could see creationism taught as science in schools