Best of Today
Best Of Today
Insight, analysis and expert debate as key policy makers are challenged on the latest news stories.
Today: Children 'being sold short' on literature
This week schools begin to wind down for the Christmas holidays. Novelist and writer Josephine Hart is concerned that the teaching of ...
Today: 'Cosmetic standards' cause food wastage
A new campaign highlighting the amount of food wasted in the developing world, it to be launched today in Trafalgar Square, London. 5000 ...
Today: Cheques 'a mark of trust and confidence'
Do you make any payments by cheque? In the future you may have no choice but to pay electronically, by plastic, or go online if a vote goes ...
Today: Defence cuts would be 'deeply dangerous'
Defence Sectary Bob Ainsworth is set to deliver a statement to the Commons on defence equipment priorities. The speech comes as the ...
Today: Dad dancing 'may have evolutionary function'
Are men or women the better movers and shakers on a dance floor? According to new research carried out via the Today website, it is men who ...
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 ...