The EU’s budget commissioner singled out aviation, CO2 emissions and financial transactions as targets for raising revenue. Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA The government today moved to make clear it would not support a new European attempt to introduce a system of direct taxation of member... 

A British Airways flight flies over a picket line near Heathrow airport in May. Disputes between BAA and workers have already resulted in 22 days of strike action this year. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Talks will be held today to try to avert looming strikes by airport workers that could... 

Andy Coulson, now David Cameron’s media adviser, resigned as editor of the News of the World in January 2007 over the phone hacking scandal at the newspaper. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters The government tonight came under pressure to set up a judicial inquiry into the phone hacking... 

Arsenal wants their fans to be engaged in the club, but its share-save scheme could be improved. Photograph: Tom Jenkins The share-save scheme at Arsenal – save via direct debit to buy a fraction of a share in the football club – seems a very complicated way to address a simple problem....