Kirby Adams, chief executive of Tata Steel Europe, was accused of ‘relishing confrontation’ during talks with unions over the Teesside closure. Photograph: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images Kirby Adams, the outgoing chief executive of Corus who threw 1,000 steelworkers out of a job this year, is believed to have been paid more than £2m. The jobs were [...]

A montage of logos from some of the BBC’s roughly 400 websites The BBC needs “clearer red lines” around its website to allow competitors that depend on private revenue to survive, the government warned today. Amid concerns that the government is hostile to the BBC, the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, lavished praise on the corporation [...]

The Iraq war inquiry, chaired by Sir John Chilcot, has been going on for a year. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Nick Clegg’s condemnation of what he sees as “the most disastrous [Labour] decision of all: the illegal invasion of Iraq”, and the coalition government’s subsequent attempts to backtrack from his statement have attracted substantial comment. [...]

David Cameron claims the national citizens service is further evidence of the Conservatives’ commitment to a ‘big society’. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/PA The National Citizen Service (NCS) programme to be rolled out to 10,000 young people next year is, according to David Cameron, further evidence of the Conservatives’ commitment to developing a “big society”. Since becoming [...]