One of the best decisions made by David Cameron when he became Prime Minister was to stick with his team. Mr Cameron resolved that he would not be panicked into sacking ministers, and he has put an end to the Westminster tradition of an annual reshuffle.

Siberia in January is a very cold place indeed. What relief, then, for four weary travellers to be able to warm themselves in front of the furnace of an enormous smelter — all wearing hard hats bearing the corporate logo of Rusal, the world’s largest alu

Don't believe he myth that Barclays didn’t benefit from state support. Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond is thought to have received a bonus of just under £1m. Photograph: Getty Images. It's payday for the man Peter Mandelson once described as the "un

I'm not sure I've read it right, but is the Labour Party AGAINST bankers getting million-pound bonuses now? Maybe we all misunderstood their policy for 15 years. When Peter Mandelson said he was "intensely relaxed about people becoming filthy rich", he d

In a thoughtful column in yesterday's Financial Times, Gideon Rachman laments the collapse of the Davos Consensus on globalization by noting that the two most important speeches made last week were President Obama's State of the Union address and a campa

Last week you reported that Peter Mandelson was warning "against reverting to old arguments and business and bank bashing" (Report, 26 January). Mandelson, along with a chorus of others, has been urging Labour to be more "credible" on economic issues and

In a speech in Glasgow this morning, Ed Miliband is expected to speak of his “humility” about the scale of Labour’s challenge in Scotland. Miliband will argue that the goals of fairness and justice are best delivered within the United Kingdom: ”I say let

I don’t have a great track record of memo-writing. Peter Mandelson once walked into Downing Street and a snapper caught a memo I had written about Labour’s attack strategy in his bundle of papers. Then, last year, a memo for Ed Miliband ahead of his firs

I don’t have a great track record of memo-writing. Peter Mandelson once walked into Downing Street and a snapper caught a memo I had written about Labour’s attack strategy in his bundle of papers. Then, last year, a memo for Ed Miliband ahead of his firs

How far could Stephen Hester's bonus stretch? It might pay for soldiers in Afghanistan, nurses, home helps, care workers. But it might not cover a Nat Rothschild birthday party. Wealth is relative, as well as exotic. Rothschild is fighting a libel case a

Plans to commit €22bn to tackling the scourge of youth unemployment across Europe will be considered by EU leaders on Monday as international pressure mounts for action to help young people chart a way through the deepening economic crisis. The difficult

YOU remember Peter Mandelson. Who could forget him? Secretary of state for Northern Ireland, serial survivor of controversies and comebacks, arguably the man who invented Blairism before most of us had heard of Tony Blair.Lord Mandelson, as he now is, op

Apparently the Guardian’s Patrick Wintour and Nick Watt – political editor and correspondent at the Guardian respectively – are “baffled” that anyone could think they have an agenda against Ed Miliband. We know so because someone leaked it to Private Eye

Over-exposed: Former business secretary Peter Mandelson performed on both Radio 4 and Sky TV The 8.10am interview slot on Radio 4’s Today programme – usually reserved for political VIPs – was given over to an interview about globalisation with Peter Mand

David Cameron's plea for "responsible capitalism" is failing because he wants to do it by asking businesses to behave better, rather than changing the rules, Ed Miliband said. The Labour leader highlighted Cameron's famous 2006 attack on WH Smith for sto

Peter Mandelson risked accusations of conflict of interest when he accepted lavish hospitality from a billionaire Russian oligarch, it was claimed yesterday. The then EU trade commissioner was flown on Oleg Deripaska’s private jet, was ‘wined and dined’

Over-exposed: Former business secretary Peter Mandelson performed on both Radio 4 and Sky TV The 8.10am interview slot on Radio 4’s Today programme – usually reserved for political VIPs – was given over to an interview about globalisation with Peter Mand

It was like Westminster in the mountains. Everywhere you looked there was a British politician. David Cameron lectured the rest of Europe about how to solve the crisis in the single currency under the disapproving gaze of Peter Mandelson, sitting next to

Buried away in Peter Mandelson's memoirs is a wry note of satisfaction that he felt about returning from Brussels to his old Whitehall industry department in 2008, a decade after he had been forced to resign from it. More experienced, more self-confident