The welfare benefits claimed by every individual - including pensions and child benefit - should be in the public domain. Taxpayers have a right to know exactly who is claiming what and how much they are getting, says MARK LITTLEWOOD. Many people now have a third of their wages - or even more - confiscated at source by Revenue & Customs. The biggest item this cash is then spent on is welfare. You have a right to know who is receiving it.
As the Mail has long argued, it is a matter of great shame to Britain’s political class that, in Iraq and Afghanistan, soldiers were sent to fight and die without proper equipment.
Posing as champions of progress and prosperity, ministers want European Union controls on genetically modified produce to be drastically relaxed, writes JOANNA BLYTHMAN.
Certainly Royal Ascot can't rely forever on royal patronage. Perhaps it will now have to rely on the Duchess of Cornwall, who likes a flutter.
MAX HASTINGS: Until we can restore to politics the legitimacy that can derive only from respect for its processes, democracy in Britain will remain in almost as sorry a condition as it is today across much of the rest of the world.
The meek, as we know, will inherit the earth. And isn’t that going to be a pain for the rest of us. The meek really fancy themselves. And they’re taking over public transport, writes MARTIN SAMUEL.
The row over data protection laws is typical of how, in the post-Leveson world, it is becoming ever harder for the Press to expose and scrutinise State wrongdoing.
JULIE BAILEY: A culture of deception and bullying has been allowed to spread across officialdom in the drive to hide the truth from the public, backed up by gagging orders, threats of legal actions and harassment of whistleblowers.
The world of Girl Guides is being turned upside down under the leadership of Julie Bentley. The promise which young recruits make has been modernised. God and country have now been axed, writes STEPHEN GLOVER.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Having won an Emmy and Golden Globe for playing the troubled US marine Nicholas Brody in the hit TV show Homeland, Damian Lewis hasn't worked that much since...
David Cameron could do himself a vastly bigger political favour by finding some way to improve the weather rather than by rescuing the economy, or, God help us, intervening in Syria, writes MAX HASTINGS.
Girl Guides, an important youth movement, has been taken over by radical revolutionaries, who plan to cut references to nation and God from the Guide 'promise', writes PETER HITCHENS.
The more we learn of its incompetence, secrecy and deceit, the longer the charge sheet grows against the quango entrusted with safeguarding standards of healthcare in England.
YASMIN ALIBHAI-BROWN: After pleading guilty to indecent assaults on 13 girls, Stuart Hall got a mere 15 months: the equivalent of just over one month for each victim. What a pitifully inadequate jail term.
The Syrian civil war, with Russia on one side of the bloody conflict and the north Americans and Britain on the other, was only one reason for the unease between the main players at the G8 summit, by QUENTIN LETTS.
CRAIG BROWN: The heyday for the footnote was the Victorian era. In 1840, a history of Northumberland contained a footnote which went on for 165 pages. By the 20th century, the tide had turned...
On so many areas, Labour has failed to devise a policy of its own. Mr Miliband now has remarkably few stepping stones in the fast-flowing river, writes QUENTIN LETTS.
Prince Michael of Kent and his wife, Princess Michael, rode in the third carriage at the Royal Ascot parade. With them, Princess Margaret's son, Viscount Linley, and his wife, Serena. What a charming foursome.
By the end of the war in 1918, eight million had died, all because a driver had taken the wrong turning. Or, was it because a great conflict was historically overdue? Writes ANDREW ALEXANDER.
What truly disgusting timing. On the very day when Afghanistan takes control of its own security, after 12 thankless years of conflict, the MoD sends out redundancy notices to 4,500 soldiers.
Is this ancient Egyptian statue a sign that there really is a curse of the Pharaohs?
Relic kept in museum for 80 years starts SPINNING on its own
Edward Snowden flees to RUSSIA
NSA whistleblower lands in Moscow and meets Venezuelan officials one day after U.S. charges him with espionage
Captain Beckham called up for duty
Government 'to ask star to lead 1914 Christmas Day truce memorial match'
The secrets of my friend the Moors murderer
Confidant of Britain's most notorious killer reveals all
Inside the Rome hotel room where James Gandolfini suffered a fatal heart attack
Luxury suite where beloved actor was found ailing by his young son
'I would have stepped in to stop Saatchi and Nigella fight'
Now Miliband wades in to row
STEPHEN GLOVER: Five pages of The Guardian newspaper were yesterday given over to what was presented as one of the most outrageous scandals of modern times. Britain has allegedly been bugging other governments.
Not for years have Moscow and London seemed so far apart – geographically and politically. Yesterday, Vladimir Putin, incumbent of the Kremlin, swaggered in to Downing Street. Boy, this was a cold encounter.
Carine Patry Hoskins was paid almost £15,000 a month of public money during the Leveson inquiry. Indeed, lawyers and their generous emoluments seem to be constantly in the news, writes PETER MCKAY.
Today’s Westminster summit must bring an end to the Wild West lawlessness of the internet and expose the cynical claims of the web giants that they are doing all they can to protect the young.
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