David Laws resigns

The former Chief Secretary to the Treasury, David Laws MP, has resigned his position, on the basis that he has broken the rules on MPs expenses. Mr Laws, a Liberal Democrat, claimed Parliamentary allowances for accommodation, which he paid to a person with whom he was...

University Challenged

The disqualification of the Corpus Christi College team, after they had won the 2009 University Challenge competition, rather beggars belief and sits uneasily with common sense. One competitor has been ruled bot to be a student at the end of the series, but had begun...