UK Politics
Nick Clegg: Cancel the Queen's Speech
Writing in The Independent, the Liberal Democrat leader issues a call for this week's speech to be replaced by a programme to "clean up politics".
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Education officials spent £10m on first-class fares
Monday, 16 November 2009
Education officials have run up a £10m bill for the taxpayer from first-class rail travel over the last three years. Civil servants bought an estimated 60,000 first-class tickets between 2006 and 2009. The scale of the spending – equivalent to just over 300 teachers' salaries or four new primary schools – provoked anger among opposition MPs and parents' leaders.
A fight for Tory future
Monday, 16 November 2009
Andy McSmith : Deselection vote tonight in struggle between 'Turnip Taliban' and 'Notting Hill set'.
Parliamentary inquiry misled on phone hacks
Monday, 16 November 2009
Detective denies saying messages to 6,000 people were intercepted
Tories target newest BBC channels for spending cuts
Monday, 16 November 2009
The BBC could be forced by an incoming Conservative government to accept a cut in the licence fee and to justify subsidising digital channels such as BBC Three.
BNP leader to stand against minister
Monday, 16 November 2009
Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, is to challenge Margaret Hodge, the Culture minister, for the Barking constituency at the next General Election.
Childcare relief to stay
Monday, 16 November 2009
Ministers were in retreat yesterday over plans to abolish tax relief on childcare vouchers paid to working families.
Aid commitment dropped from Queen's Speech
Sunday, 15 November 2009
Brown's pledge to prevent future governments cutting overseas aid will appear as a draft bill only
At last, PM eclipses 'The Sun' and enjoys a good week
Sunday, 15 November 2009
Gordon Brown emerged the winner after a bruising battle, but that success and a by-election victory in Glasgow still leave him a long way short of a convincing comeback
Civil servants earn £30m bonuses (and claim £35m in fares)
Sunday, 15 November 2009
Mandarins climb aboard the 'performance-related pay' bandwagon – in the first-class compartment
Children's rights 'being systematically breached'
Sunday, 15 November 2009
Poverty, abuse and a harsh criminal justice system mean Government is failing in its legal obligations to the young, charities warn
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1 Nick Clegg: Cancel the Queen's Speech – and save democracy
2 A field day for the Tory old guard
3 Man remanded on 'night stalker' sex assault charges new
4 Doctor jailed for poisoning pregnant lover's drinks new
5 Parliamentary inquiry misled on phone hacks
6 Education officials spent £10m on first-class fares
7 Five held by anti-terror police new
8 Energy firms to be forced to help the poor
9 BNP leader to stand against minister
10 Tories target newest BBC channels for spending cuts
11 Number of prisoners let out overnight soars
12 British soldiers sexually abused us, claim Iraqis
13 The disgrace of Britain's jails: Institutions short-change inmates and society
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1 Education officials spent £10m on first-class fares
2 Illegal downloaders 'spend the most on music', says poll
3 Battered child wins compensation from three-year-old
4 Homecomings fit for heroes? The plight of Britain's veterans
5 Plan to give 16-year-olds the vote fails to win support
6 Nick Clegg: Cancel the Queen's Speech – and save democracy
7 Funeral costs jump, but too few will haggle
8 Five held by anti-terror police new
9 A field day for the Tory old guard
10 The disgrace of Britain's jails: Institutions short-change inmates and society
11 Civil servants earn £30m bonuses (and claim £35m in fares)
Commented
1Renouncing Islamism: To the brink and back again
2Bruce Anderson: Why the public are wrong over our mission in Afghanistan
3'Cancel the Queen's speech ? and save democracy'
4War in Afghanistan: Not in our name
5Mary Wakefield: Sex education classes are the last thing young children need
6British soldiers sexually abused us, claim Iraqis
7Aid commitment dropped from Queen's Speech
8Welcome to Club Bounce: Where the big ? and beautiful ? people go
9BNP leader to stand against minister
10Nick Clegg: Don't waste our time... bring forward real reform
Columnist Comments
• Bruce Anderson: Why the public are wrong over our mission in Afghanistan
The West must be seen as a reliable foe
• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Libel laws silence our democracy
Most journalists have to accept severe limits on what we can say
• Philip Hensher: Computers have got to learn about grammar
Some of the things we are told in school are just terrible rules
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