David Cameron has shattered the fragile political truce that has held since the financial crisis broke over the last month after he accused Gordon Brown of presiding over a "complete and utter failure" of economic policy in a speech today. The Tory leader addressed a business audience in the...[continued] Gordon Brown took Britain's petrol retailers to task yesterday for failing to cut pump prices in line with the recent slump in crude oil prices on the markets. As the cost of a barrel of oil fell by $4 to $66 on the exchanges yesterday, Brown demanded to other... [continued] With less than three weeks of the presidential campaign to go, the Republicans are finding themselves on the defensive in the deep-red states that had been thought of as in the bag for their candidate John McCain in the November 4 general election poll. Barack Obama has turned the...[continued] Lord Adair Turner, the head of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) which has recently seen its powers beefed up to deal with the effects of the credit crunch, has warned the City that the days of soft-touch regulation are well and truly over. Turner admitted that in the past... [continued] European Union leaders yesterday approved radical and stringent cuts in greenhouse gases, but were split about how the measures would be paid for and who would be asked to curtail their emissions the most. The EU agreed to make reduce emissions by a fifth by 2020, but Italian leader...[continued] A series of police raids across Britain and Europe have thrown up the worrying scenario that Muslim terrorists are working with criminals involved in hardcore child pornography. Anti-terror officers found images of child abuse, secret messages have been embedded in child porn images and it is believed that... [continued]
Cameron shatters consensus
Brown takes big oil to task
Obama threatens McCain states
FSA boss: ‘No more soft touch’
EU agrees greenhouse gas deal
Child porn link to Muslim terror
Friday, 17 October 2008
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