Rise in US Homeless Sparks Concern
Mandelson In New Favours Row Over Heathrow Expansion
'Peter Mandelson is at the centre of a 'favours for friends' row over the controversial proposals to expand Heathrow. Details emerged of the extraordinary access the Business Secretary's close acquaintance Roland Rudd - who represents airport operator BAA - had to the top tiers of Government.
Mr Rudd, the City's most powerful PR, or his company Finsbury Ltd met with ministers at least five times in ten days in the run-up to Labour's unpopular decision to go ahead with plans for a third runway, and once a few months earlier.'
America Goes the Way of the USSR
'You know that our economy has been turned into a socialist system. You're already probably mad about that. But there are many other ways in which America is going the way of the Soviet Union.'