The American Apparel & Footwear Association AAFA today issued a statement that calls upon the ministers at the World Trade Organization WTO meeting in Cancun, Mexico to emerge from the gathering with a framework that would bring about a conclusion of the negotiations by the scheduled date of January 1,...
Former minister reveals secret deal on minimum wage as campaign takes off 'All tips should go to the staff' Giorgio Locatelli 'Restaurants are betraying customers' Mark Hix 'It's too easy to operate an unfair system'...
The Independent's campaign for fair tips has won the backing of leading chefs, politicians and restaurant guides. Marco Pierre White, Antony Worrall Thompson and Giorgio Locatelli all demanded an end to the widespread abuses of Britain's waiters and waitresses. The editor of Britain's gastronomic bible, the Michelin...
Gordon Brown is under mounting pressure to raise taxes for high earners so he can reduce the tax burden on low-income families struggling as the economic slowdown begins to bite. Some ministers are urging the Prime Minister to "be bold" by risking tax rises for people earning more than 100,000...
More than 60 Tory MPs are paying up to 40,000 to family members employed in their offices at the taxpayers' expense, it emerged yesterday. Laurence Robertson, the MP for Tewkesbury and shadow Northern Ireland minister, declares that he pays his estranged wife Susan and his current partner,...
History is repeating itself in the worst possible way for Malaysia's opposition leader. Anwar Ibrahim has been arrested by police and he faces a charge of sodomy for the second time in 10 years - in a case his supporters claim is politically influenced. When Mr Anwar...
THE SKETCH My sister had been watching Prime Minister's Questions from the public gallery, she'd come up from Lincolnshire, and was a little shocked at what she saw. "He's so rude, isn't he?" she said. "Isn't he? It's because he's got no manners. He...
The Merry Wives of Windsor (SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE, LONDON) This highly entertaining, high-spirited revival is zestfully alert to how the play's social-climbing middle classes anticipate modern sitcom. (020-7401 9919) to 11 Oct Never So Good (NT:...
'The Prime Minister promised to abolish boom and bust, but now we have got both: inflation is booming, the economy is bust' Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats at Prime Minister's Questions...
If we fell for it once, we can fall for it again. A Prime Minister who is a good man, interested in the practicalities of good government, who has done little that is overtly objectionable but whose public persona is embarrassing. And a Leader of the Opposition who is fluent,...
Insightful Anglo-Israeli journalist Eric Silver was a leading Anglo-Israeli journalist in Israel, author of a well-regarded biography of Menachem Begin, and one of the most insightful commentators on Israeli politics since the foundation of the state. He was always very much a professional journalist who could be...
Canada: Gitmo decision TORONTO -- Canada will not seek the return of a young detainee at Guantanamo Bay, officials said Wednesday, a day after the release of a video showing the teenage prisoner sobbing for his mother and pleading for Canada's help. A spokesman...
As reported by one of the mostrespected Brazilian newspapers, O Estado de São Paulo, yesterday night, thePresident of Brazil, Mr. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, hosted a meeting withthe President of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Gilmar Mendes, and alsowith the Minister of Justice and the Defense Minister, Messrs. Tarso...
World News IN BRIEF *ROME The fingerprinting of Gypsies in Italy as part of a crackdown on street crime has created an "environment of hostility, antagonism and stigmatisation of the Roma community", the UN has warned. Three human rights officials said the plan could mobilise extremist groups...
More than a fifth of teenagers and young adults have admitted committing a crime in the past year, while nearly a third of primary school-age children in Bristol are displaying "problem behaviour" such as fighting, arson, drinking or stealing. The Home Office snap-shot of offending among young...
The controversy surrounding an 11th-century temple on the Cambodian border with Thailand has taken a new twist after the authorities in Phnom Penh alleged that up to 170 armed troops and civilians from Thailand had illegally entered its territory. Cambodia's Information Minister, Khieu Kanharith, made the allegation...
World News IN BRIEF *BRUSSELS Belgium's coalition government has collapsed, after failing to resolve divisions over more self-rule for the country's Dutch and French-speakers. King Albert II has started talks with MPs to try to resolve the situation, which are expected to take several days. The Prime...
Davis downsizes in Tory naughty corner Now that David Davis has forsaken the trappings of a shadow minister, he must confront the everyday life of a backbench MP. The former shadow Home Secretary, pictured, who resigned from the Commons over the government's controversial 42-day...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's statement that he would consider agreeing to a scheduled withdrawal of U.S. troops from his country brings up one of the great canards of the Iraq war: the idea that giving a "date certain" for drawing down our forces helps the enemy. The...
BRUSSELS AFP — The European Commission granted Poland on Wednesday almost two months to work out new plans to salvage two historic Polish shipyards after Prime Minister Donald Tusk pressed for more time. Following Polish promises to present a viable, alternative plan by September 12, the commission said...
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