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'Cancel the Queen's speech – and save democracy'
Nick Clegg today issues a call for this week's Queen's Speech to be scrapped and replaced by an emergency programme of reform designed to "clean up politics once and for all".
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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 field day for the Tory old guard
Monday, 16 November 2009
It is a fight for the future of the Tory party. So will a key Cameron ally be deselected tonight over an affair with an MP? Report by Andy McSmith
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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2 British soldiers sexually abused us, claim Iraqis
3 'Britain’s most notorious serial sex attacker' under arrest
4 The disgrace of Britain's jails: Institutions short-change inmates and society
5 War in Afghanistan: Not in our name
6 BNP leader to stand against minister
7 Parliamentary inquiry misled on phone hacks
8 A field day for the Tory old guard
9 Children's rights 'being systematically breached'
10 At last, PM eclipses 'The Sun' and enjoys a good week
11 Aid commitment dropped from Queen's Speech
12 Visiting time: Charles Bronson invites us into his cell
13 Afghanistan: IoS readers have their say
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3 Britain's Abu Ghraib: Did Britain collude with US in abuse of Iraqis?
4 DNA breakthrough in hunt for Britain's worst sex offender
5 Green beliefs win legal protection
6 Race special: Racism in Britain 2007
7 PM to apologise for child migrants
8 Woman uses new forced marriage laws against father
10 The disgrace of Britain's jails: Institutions short-change inmates and society
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1War in Afghanistan: Not in our name
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3British soldiers sexually abused us, claim Iraqis
4Mary Wakefield: Sex education classes are the last thing young children need
5Aid commitment dropped from Queen's Speech
6Howard Jacobson: Nick Griffin looks as if he'd be light on his feet. So here's what to do with him
7Afghanistan: <i>IoS</i> readers have their say
8Leading article: The only way forward
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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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