Tim Luckhurst: Alex Salmond's local income tax is staggeringly undemocratic
Tim Luckhurst: Alex Salmond's local income tax is undemocratic. The SNP leader is trying to rewrite the Scotland Act. He must be stopped

Letter: War on recession
Letter: Your list of the reasons why only Britain is facing recession makes no reference to the huge cost of the attack on Iraq

Revealed: Brown's £1bn power windfall
Ministers urged to share hidden profits made through green energy scheme

Editorial: A quick fix fits the bill
Editorial: Bad luck has played its part in bringing the government to this seemingly disastrous pass

BE ready to agree EDF buyout after investors are offered better returns
Energy company close to agreeing a £12bn takeover after French firm agrees to sweeten bid

Union leader accuses PM of betraying poor families
MPs join Unite boss in condemning energy plan's failure to tackle fuel poverty

Challenges ahead
What the coming months hold for the Labour party

Brown survival plan fizzles ... but so does Labour rebellion
MPs want fuel package with one-off payments to help poor to pay bills

Coffee-mate lands MP in hot water with drug patrol
Coffee whitener causes trouble for Conservative politician, Michael Fabricant, while in Colombia

Politics: TUC faces motion on general strike over picket rights
Unions to call for first strike since 1926 in protest against Labour's refusal to give back picketing rights