Football ban if fans jeer French team

Sarkozy makes his order after Tunisia friendly in which whistles and jeers were heard during French national anthem

Harriet the Human covers for Super-Gordon

Gordon Brown couldn’t be with us at PMQs for he had been called to Brussels and Harriet Harman was no replacement

World prepares for long recession

Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, helped unnerve markets when he warned there would be no quick fix

Guess who’s not dining with Cherie

Cherie Blair might be a working-class girl made good but it didn’t take long for John Prescott to identify her as simply a snob

Gordon will have to use the R-word

Before the Prime Minister can begin to take the initiative, he has to talk openly about the recession

Deal may leave someone feeling flash, Gordon

Officials now say that if the banks come up with proposals that are more favourable for the taxpayer, so much the better

Worldwide press on Gordon Brown

It is Gordon Brown, the magician of Anglo-Saxon liberalism, who is giving lessons on state intervention to the continentals

Brown heads to Europe with stock rising

PM travels early to a EU summit today after receiving praise for his leadership role in response to financial crisis

Thousands in limbo due to lack of planning

Prisoners were left in a Kafka-esque situation as Government failed to finance an open ended jail term for dangerous offenders

Government scraps Sats for 14-year-olds

Pupils in England are to escape school testing at age 14 after the Key Stage 3 tests were abolished with immediate effect

Crunch has put paid to Scottish independence

The place of Scottish banks in troubled world markets and the price of oil are stumbling blocks to Alex Salmond's dream

£37bn bailout 'may not be enough'

Cash injection into UK's three weakest banks is too little to stabilise system, Treasury Select Committee chairman warned

Bouyed Brown attacks SNP over Glenrothes poll

Independent Scotland could not have bailed out banks, says Prime Minister enjoying new strength over credit crisis

Secret inquests axed from terror law

Provision allowing Home Secretary to stop jury being summoned is dropped in bid to get measure swiftly through the Lords

Rising cost of living prompts strike threats

Public sector unions used increased cost of living figures to threaten strike action over pay deals already below inflation

Top of the class in gobbledegook

But just because Mr Ed Balls is scrapping SATs tests for 14-year-olds does not mean that I am scrapping my test for him

10,000 jobs go as crunch hits public sector

More than £900m must be saved at Ministry of Justice in two years, threatening initiatives including tackling knife crime

NHS trust wants to spend £400,000 on a yacht

The vessel would sail with a crew of unemployed teenagers as part of a training programme to help them into work

We’re not at the end of the present misery

Just how harsh the soaring cost of living has squeezed family budgets was confirmed by startling inflation figures

Cutbacks to be mirrored all over government

The Justice Secretary's cuts mean closure of up to 100 courts and risk undermining the stability of Britain’s prison system