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".
Inside UK Politics
Brown: Afghan mission vital to combating al-Qa'ida
Monday, 16 November 2009
The comments mark the latest stage in the Prime Minister's drive to shore up public support for the war.
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
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1 Nick Clegg: Cancel the Queen's Speech – and save democracy
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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'
4Nick Clegg: Don't waste our time... bring forward real reform
5BNP leader to stand against minister
6Education officials spent £10m on first-class fares
7British soldiers sexually abused us, claim Iraqis
8After 50 years, the 'lost innocents' shipped from home win apology
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10Welcome to Club Bounce: Where the big ? and beautiful ? people go
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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