The resurgence of "fat-cat" banker bonuses, despite the near-collapse of the banking system last year, has enraged voters but the head of UK Financial Investments (UKFI) said worries over pay should be weighed against the need to pull the banks back... Full Article at The Scotsman

Many thousands of Northern Rock mortgage borrowers will become financial “prisoners”, dumped into the rump of the lender’s so-called bad bank, it emerged yesterday. Full Article at Times Online

Mr David Cameron, the leader of the opposition, had to explain why a ‘cast iron guarantee’ by the Conservatives to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty would no longer be possible, now it had been ratified. Full Article at Spectator Magazine