Best of Today
Best Of Today
Insight, analysis and expert debate as key policy makers are challenged on the latest news stories.
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Today: New rules for vetting adults
New rules to vet people working with children in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are to be watered down after an outcry from teachers ...
Today: Peers and MPs to pay UK taxes
All MPs and peers would have to pay taxes in the UK under legislation that would be rushed through if he became prime minister, David ...
Today: Woods 'will become figure of fun'
Tiger Woods is taking an indefinite break from professional golf to tackle problems in his private life. The situation has flagged up ...
Today: Parties 'must wake up to' effect of cuts
Has the public sector understood the magnitude of what awaits following this week's pre-Budget report? Yesterday, academics and government ...
Today: 'Lack of respect' for past
Andrew Marr's TV series The Making of Modern Britain has been attacked by Telegraph columnist Charles Moore. Mr Moore described the series ...
Today: Do cuts spell the end for choice in public services?
How do you manage public services in tough economic times? Analysis of the pre-Budget report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies has found ...
Today: English whisky re-born
The first English whisky for more than a century is to be bottled today. After three years maturing in the St George's Distillery by the ...
Today: Benefits increase 'not electioneering'
The chancellor delivered his anticipated pre-Budget report yesterday in the midst of the worst peacetime fiscal crisis in this country's ...
Today: 'Call of darkness' inspired Bacon
Did sado-masochism play a pivotal role in artist Francis Bacon's creativity? John Richardson, an art historian who knew the artist from the ...
Today: Bonus supertax 'all about politics'
The Chancellor Alistair Darling will stake his government's future on tax rises for the rich to bring down a record budget deficit in ...
Today: 100th UK Afghan death 'increases determination'
Yesterday saw another grim milestone in Afghanistan: the 100th British soldier to be killed there this year. General Sir Richard Dannatt ...
Today: Knox guilty verdict 'stuns' US
The American public are angered at the guilty verdict passed on Amanda Knox for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy. ...
Today: Who is in Who's Who for 2010?
The 2010 edition of Who's Who goes on sale today. Richard Fitzwilliams was the editor of International Who's Who for 16 years and says it ...