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Cameron: 'Big society' is the solution to poverty
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Conservative leader accuses Labour of fostering a centralising bureaucracy.
Miliband picks election battle over EU role
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Foreign Secretary David Miliband firmly ruled himself out of contention for the role of European foreign minister today, saying he wanted to "stay and fight" the general election.
Three more government drugs advisers quit
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Alan Johnson failed in an attempt to defuse the damaging row between the Government and Britain's top scientists after three more of his drugs advisers resigned last night.
Andrew Grice: A new Gordon Brown?
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
David Cameron went on the attack over youth unemployment at Prime Minister's Questions this afternoon.
'Big Brother' database cancelled
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Nigel Morris and Robert Verkaik: Plan to store details of every phone call and email 'kicked into long grass' after furore
Brown pays tribute to troops killed in Afghanistan
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
The PM was speaking as controversy raged over his 'disrespectful' condolence letter to the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan.
Dead soldier's mother confronts PM over lack of equipment
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Gordon Brown was confronted over the lack of equipment for British troops by the mother of a dead soldier when he called to offer his condolences.
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
Bob Ainsworth: The conflict in Afghanistan is one of necessity, not choice
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Tomorrow, as we commemorate military sacrifice, my thoughts will be with our forces on the frontline in Afghanistan.
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1 32 years on, man accused of Capt. Nairac's murder
2 Teenage attacker behind bars after second child rape
3 Wife says noisy sex conviction breaches rights
4 Crackdown! Police officers mount huge drug swoop
5 Miliband picks election battle over EU role
6 Afghan war is bad for security, voters say
7 Canoe death fraudster must repay £591,000
8 Anger at 'cloak of secrecy' for Freemason judges
9 Schoolboy confronts Griffin at memorial
10 Ministers cancel 'Big Brother' database
11 'Big society' is the solution to poverty, declares Cameron
12 Henry VIII: the 'gadget master'
13 Silence marks passing of WWI generation
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1 I understand the pain of losing a child, says Brown
2 Filipino whose wife died after blunder by NHS to be deported
3 Legal system 'treats blacks more harshly'
4 Soldier 'too afraid to tell truth' on Baha Mousa
5 Q&A: The Royal Mail strike explained
6 Retired police dogs to get pensions
7 Afghanistan's hidden toll: Troops invalided out triple in three years
8 32 years on, man accused of Capt. Nairac's murder
9 The truth about immigration: Citizenships granted fall by 35,000 in a year
10 Plain English campaigners target police jargon
11 Miscarriage of justice victim could have been freed in 1998
Commented
1Johann Hari: Accept the facts ? and end this futile 'war on drugs'
2Afghan war is bad for security, voters say
3Armistice Day: The Great War and the words we mustn't forget
4US 'wants to guard Pakistan's nuclear arsenal'
5Mark Steel: You almost have to feel sorry for Gordon Brown
6How a single bullet halted Taliban attack
7Youth trapped on ice floe forced to shoot polar bear
8Pound under new attack as agency says it will cut UK's credit rating
Columnist Comments
• Johann Hari: Futile 'war on drugs'
We are handing one of our biggest industries over to armed, criminal gangs
• Hamish McRae: We've no choice but to keep inflating
A bubble or not a bubble? Right now I think the best answer is not yet
• Tom Sutcliffe: A massacre that may or may not be art
What a fuss over the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
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