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'Big Brother' database cancelled by ministers
Plans to store details of every phone call and email will not be included in the Queen's Speech, amid protests that it would be intrusive and open to abuse.
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Labour forces secret inquests Bill through the Commons
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Secret inquests which will bar bereaved families and the public from attending hearings into controversial deaths were forced through Parliament last night.
'Mortified' PM apologises over condolence note
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Brown telephones soldier's mother after spelling son's name wrong in letter
PM: I've apologised over letter error
Monday, 9 November 2009
Gordon Brown called Jacqui Janes after learning of her distress over his hand-written letter of condolence.
Johnson: we need a debate on migration
Monday, 9 November 2009
The Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, is to launch a drive to convince the public that immigration is a "good thing" for Britain as Labour goes on the offensive against the BNP and the Conservatives ahead of the general election.
Johnson has 'no regrets' over sacked drugs adviser
Monday, 9 November 2009
Alan Johnson remains unrepentant over the controversial sacking of his chief adviser on drugs and is surprised about the outcry from scientists over the decision.
Tories finally come clean on Ashcroft tax status
Monday, 9 November 2009
Andrew Grice: Party's deputy chairman has 'fulfilled the obligations imposed on him'
Country 'needs nuclear power'
Monday, 9 November 2009
Government acknowledged anxieties about nuclear power but said it had a "relatively good" safety record.
Brown government even more unpopular than Major's
Monday, 9 November 2009
Labour has failed to dent the Tories’ opinion poll lead , according to The Independent poll of polls.
10 new nuclear power stations named
Monday, 9 November 2009
The first is set to be operational by 2018 and nuclear electricity generation could amount to around 40 per cent of new energy provision by 2025.
Andrew Grice: Waiting for Obama
Monday, 9 November 2009
What were armed services chiefs and politicians talking about in the margins of the Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Whitehall yesterday? I am told two words kept coming up. "President" and "Obama.
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2 Wife says noisy sex conviction breaches rights
3 'Big Brother' database cancelled by ministers
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5 'Mortified' PM apologises over condolence note
6 Demands grow for 'weapon dogs' to be brought to heel
7 City pay culture has spread to charities, union says
8 Labour forces secret inquests Bill through the Commons
9 Justin Fenton in London: Britain's use of DNA is light years ahead
10 Schoolboy confronts Griffin at memorial
11 Singer faces jail over child sex abuse
12 IT workers share £45m Euromillions win
13 Soldier 'too afraid to tell truth' on Baha Mousa
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1 Wife says noisy sex conviction breaches rights
2 'Big Brother' database cancelled by ministers
3 Justin Fenton in London: Britain's use of DNA is light years ahead
4 Yes please? No thanks? For and against nuclear power
5 Hackers recruited to help fight against cybercrime
6 Fugitive Nadir paid £200m of firm's cash into secret accounts in Cyprus
7 Demands grow for 'weapon dogs' to be brought to heel
8 Right-to-die case: mother's view paramount, says paediatrician
9 Independent Live: Is Politics in Crisis?
10 Tory Eurosceptics threaten 'all-out war' over Brussels
11 Green beliefs win legal protection
12 Johnson under fire as more advisers threaten to resign
13 BNP set to advance in ex-Speaker Martin's Glasgow seat
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1Johnson: we need a debate on migration
2Simon Carr: I drink a bottle of wine a day, but don't call me an alcoholic
3Schoolboy confronts Griffin at memorial
4Ferguson vents his fury at 'ridiculous' referee
5Johnson has 'no regrets' over sacked drugs adviser
6Leading article: The immigration debate we need
7Brown government even more unpopular than Major's
8Obama hails a 'historic' US victory on healthcare reform
Columnist Comments
• Mary Dejevsky: Cool realism is a political virtue, too
No ideological vision could have replaced sound judgement in 1989
• Terence Blacker: Reality TV police shows are criminal
For half an hour, the real world is presented in black-and-white terms
• Dominic Lawson: The only options are to double up in Afghanistan or leave
At a risk of sounding callous, the number of casualties is actually small for a war
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