Latest and Breaking Politics News and Top Stories - July 3
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Nick Clegg says the police are "best placed" to investigate historic allegations about a paedophile ring at Westminster amid calls for a public inquiry.
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Unionist parties walk out of talks about contentious issues in Northern Ireland in protest at restrictions being placed on an Orange Order parade.
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Lisa Davis, New York Times I had just turned 22 and I had the self-esteem of a squashed toad. This may explain why I was having an affair with a married 36-year-old sound mixer whom I’d met on a film shoot a couple of months earlier.
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Rich Lowry, Politico It’s hard to imagine a more apt summation of the lunatic state of the nation’s immigration debate than this week’s split screen.
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Sean Davis, Federalist The Supreme Court’s decision today affirming the right of business owners to run their businesses in accordance with their religious beliefs has caused no small amount of consternation among the anti-science,...
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Heather Wilhelm, RealClearPolitics “Government,” former Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank once said, “is simply the name we give for the things we choose to do together.”Depending on your ...
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Josh Kraushaar, National Jrnl
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Alex Beam, Boston Globe I’VE NEVER had many charitable things to say about John Kerry, but now it’s worse; I feel sorry for him.Kerry certainly isn’t an evil fellow, merely a run-of-the-mill narcissistic opportunist who...
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Josh Rogin, The Daily Beast Now that the U.S. government and the Syrian regime are both fighting ISIS in Iraq, the faltering U.S. drive to topple Assad is in even more peril.
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Prime Minister David Cameron will urge the "silent majority" who support Scotland staying in the UK to speak up, ahead of the independence referendum.
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Daniel Henninger, WSJ Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?—King Henry IIThe President of the United States went to Minneapolis the other day, where he gave a speech complaining about Republicans in Congress who stand in t...
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Charles Blow, New York Times The president is growing hostile to being held hostage — both by the very insular nature of the presidency itself, and by the more stultifying intransigence of Congress.During a walk a few weeks ago fro...
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Michael Goodwin, New York Post The joke about the obsessively doting mother comes to mind.Watching her son parade with rows of fellow troops, she notices he is on his left foot when they are all on the right.“Why are they out of st...
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Dan Balz, Washington Post President Obama’s displeasure with gridlock in Washington — and with the Republicans he blames for it — has been rising for months. This week it has boiled over.
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Ed Miliband reaches out to business leaders as he unveils proposals for a new body to push through big infrastructure projects and end "short-termism".
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E.J. Dionne, Washington Post WASHINGTON -- It's not often that social and corporate conservatives come together, but the five right-of-center justices on the U.S. Supreme Court fashioned exactly this synthesis in their Hobby Lobby decisi...
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Patrick Rock. a former senior adviser to the prime minister, appears in court over child abuse images.
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Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCP The subject lines on the emails read like they could have been sent by exes, stalkers -- or cultists awaiting the Apocalypse.“Throw in the towel,” says one. “Kiss all hope good bye...
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David Harsanyi, The Federalist When will Jews learn to stop putting themselves in front of all these bullets and rockets?
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Max Fisher, Vox Twenty days after three Israeli high school students were kidnapped in the West Bank merely for being there, two days after they were found murdered in an apparent execution by Hamas members, and one day after Israelis ga...
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Rep. Luis Gutierrez, Chicago Tribune
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Strong families really matter, says a former minister looking at the challenges for modern children and marriages.
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The sad soccer fan above clearly thought that the U.S. Men's National Team was No. 1. And a new Pew Research Center poll shows it's unlikely he thinks the United States as a country is also No. 1. The number of Americans who think the Un...
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Patrick Rock, a former adviser to David Cameron, appears in court on charges of possessing indecent images of children
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UKIP leader Nigel Farage tells a Green MP not to worry about his presence as: "Within five years, I won't be here."
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Labour leader Ed Miliband delivers a speech outlining his plans to build a more prosperous Britain.
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Increase in security measures are not a 'blip' but reflect the evolving threat of terrorists and extremist groups from around the world the Deputy Prime Minister says
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Increase in security measures are not a 'blip' but reflect the evolving threat of terrorists and extremist groups from around the world the Deputy Prime Minister says
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Scott Conroy, RCP In 2010, Fairbanks attorney and Tea Party firebrand Joe Miller pulled off one of the biggest upsets in recent political history by defeating AlaskaÂ’s incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the Republican primary. P...
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Chancellor George Osbourne confesses a love for Pharell Williams but won't be drawn into a numbers game as he is asked to calculate seven times eight by kids
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Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says he hopes that new security measures at Britain's airports will only cause minimal disruption to passengers, but stressed they were being introduced "to keep people safe"
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Nick Clegg lays out plans to fight next year's general election on a promise of extra money for people who care full-time for elderly or disabled relative
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With its decision in the Hobby Lobby case, the Supreme Court ignited a contentious conversation about religious freedom and reproductive rights, ensuring that women’s health issues will once again dominate political jockeying in an elect...
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Roughly 1 in 9 Americans lives in a state that bans all consumer fireworks, including those not blocked by federal regulations. Four states had blanket bans on consumer fireworks as of June 1, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safet...
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry and two key law-enforcement officials are scheduled to testify Thursday at a congressional hearing about the recent surge of unaccompanied minors at the U.S.-Mexico border, a crisis that President Obama recently cal...
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“It’s very troubling that a salesclerk at Hobby Lobby who needs contraception, which is pretty expensive, is not going to get that service through her employer’s health-care plan because her employer doesn’t think she should be using con...
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The science of polling is sound, but it’s important to draw the right sample, and that can be a challenge.
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Which government department is told off most for misusing stats?
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The "extraordinary" contribution made by carers means that they should be given extra financial support even when the public finances remain under pressure
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The failure to tackle female genital mutilation (FGM) is a "national scandal" with as many as 170,000 victims in the UK, MPs say.
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The Deputy Prime Minister says the police and prosecuting authorities need to be asked what they did with allegations of a paedophile ring which allegedly involved Westminster politicians in the 1980s
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The Deputy Prime Minister says the police and prosecuting authorities need to be asked what they did with allegations of a paedophile ring which allegedly involved Westminster politicians in the 1980s
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The White House has asked Congress for $2 billion to respond to the record number of children arriving at the U.S. border. The funds would be used for shelters and to process deportation proceedings.
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Lawmakers from both parties are disgusted by the congressional inaction.
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Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews has all but ruled out cutting the minimum wage, likening the unpopularity of such a move to introducing WorkChoices.
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Young boy helps the Chancellor out with the answer to a simple arithmetic question as Mr Osborne is quizzed on his music taste and pocket money
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Labour policy chief Jon Cruddas is again secretly recorded being critical of Ed Miliband and the direction of the party.
