A tax on bankers’ bonuses may prove impossible

It is likely that the ingenious City people will find a way round any attempt to make them give up this perk

Labour election manifesto for civic service

The universities minister has called for a Labour plan to hike loan repayments to fund a national community service organisation

Cameron - Brown's class attacks are 'spiteful'

Old Etonian Conservative leader warned Prime Minister that his 'class war' tactics would put off voters

Billion pound NHS computer project could be scrapped

Doubt cast over future of multibillion-pound programme after Chancellor suggests it may be cut in Pre-Budget Report

At whose service?

Whitehall's civil servants are supposedly above politics, but if Gordon Brown goes, will Cameron be a better master?

Enemies eye chance to dethrone the Speaker

John Bercow faces being ousted from his post immediately after the general election amid cross-party anger about his conduct

Soldiers close hospital curtains on Brown

More than half of the veterans being treated at Selly Oak hospital in Birmingham avoided the prime minister during his visit

Tory peer lied in house dodge

Lord Taylor of Warwick has been caught using someone else’s home address to claim tens of thousands of pounds in expenses

Speed-cameras to police 20mph residential zones

Boris Johnson and councils throughout the country see the cameras as a way of restoring calm to Britain’s neighbourhoods

Peer claimed expenses on nephew’s home

Conservative peer Lord Taylor of Warwick faces a police inquiry over allegations that he claimed on a home he never visited

Equality quango staff rebel over BNP ‘sting’

Executives were asked to find black and Asian 'agents' who would complain to BNP councillors about poor council services

My week: Baroness Warsi

The shadow minister, Baroness Warsi, finds cheer for the Tories and moderate Muslims in the attack on her

It’s Gerry Adams: the Jesus show

Channel 4 has invited the Irish republican leader to give his interpretation of the story of Christ as part of a series on the Bible

University chiefs enjoy lavish free housing

Vice-chancellors are living rent-free in multi-million-pound 'grace-and-favour' homes while academics face losing their jobs

Brown’s toff attack finds voter appeal

A poll of more than 2,000 people shows that 52% think the Tories are still the party of the rich, against 31% who do not.

Who is to blame for Scotland's education failings?

Scotland’s education system has fallen from grace and critics say only a shake-up can save it. How did it come to this?

Archer lands record £18m book deal

The deal is believed to be the biggest signed by a British author and requires the peer to produce five novels over five years

Harman attacks Tory tax break ‘for philanderers’

The deputy Labour leader will argue that the Tories will make single people feel as though there is something wrong with them.

Baroness's husband wooed by KGB

Peter Kellner, the pollster married to the EU foreign representative, tells the Sunday Times of a Soviet bid to court him