UnitedHealth runs several GP practices in the UK as well as advising Primary Care Trusts. The company recently had to repay $350m to settle a US case in which it was accused of artificially depressing insurance repayments to customers. Photograph: Alamy A US health insurance company that recently... 

The banned BT advert, which showed ‘Adam’ looking at houses while ‘Jane’ surfed the web. A BT advert has been banned for misleading customers over the speed of its broadband, following complaints from rivals including BSkyB and Virgin Media. Today’s ruling by the... 

Roma women and children in a Lyon camp who stand to be expelled under Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposals. Photograph: Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images What era are we living in? The sad answer is that we are living – once again, it would seem – at a time when France is harassing and expelling... 

MP Chris Mullin’s diaries contain somewhat disturbing anecdotes about the former prime minister, Gordon Brown. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/AFP/Getty Images •I shall get round to reading Tony Blair’s book simply because, like Everest, it is there. In the meantime I suspect I’ve...