A cap could reduce the number of highly paid migrants who pay a large amount in tax, the IPPR’s Sarah Mulley argues. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images The government’s plan to cap immigration from outside the EU will come under fire from businesses this week, who will warn it... 

AP Former major league pitcher Roger Clemens poses with his wife, Debra before the BCS Championship NCAA college football game between Alabama and Texas in Pasadena, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010. HOUSTON — A federal appeals court Thursday refused to reinstate a defamation lawsuit disgraced former pitcher... 

Hands on hips: Tony Blair. Photograph: David Levene His mouth is gaping, his grey eyes wide open, his eyebrows raised in synchronised shock. In the picture accompanying his interview in yesterday’s Guardian, Tony Blair looks like a cross between an effete rabbit caught blinking in the... 

Nick Clegg has been preparing his party for losses in local elections as support for the Lib Dems slides to 12%. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA The good news for Nick Clegg as he seeks to assuage Lib Dem fears about the stormy year ahead is that Sweden has emerged in good shape from the deep spending...