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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.
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? new
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.
Anger at 'cloak of secrecy' for Freemason judges
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Jack Straw's decision to no longer force applicants for the judiciary to declare if they are Freemasons was today branded a "disgrace" by a Labour MP.
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3 Silence marks passing of WWI generation
4 Wife says noisy sex conviction breaches rights
5 Afghan war is bad for security, voters say
6 Anger at 'cloak of secrecy' for Freemason judges
7 Terror suspects' DNA could be held for life
8 Canoe death fraudster to pay back nearly £600,000
9 Man jailed for drowning partner's dog
10 'Big society' is the solution to poverty, declares Cameron
11 Schoolboy confronts Griffin at memorial
12 Treasure island – the best archaeological finds in Britain
13 I understand the pain of losing a child, says Brown
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2 Teenage attacker behind bars after second child rape
3 Murder case airman 'was victim of conspiracy'
4 Young chefs just can't stand the heat
5 Terror suspects' DNA could be held for life
6 Afghan war is bad for security, voters say
7 Vive les pubs, la liberté et Londres! Britain's French connection
8 Is this the first black Miss England? (And do we call that progress anyway?)
9 Crackdown! Police officers mount huge drug swoop
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1Johann Hari: Accept the facts ? and end this futile 'war on drugs'
2Afghan war is bad for security, voters say
3Youth trapped on ice floe forced to shoot polar bear
4Armistice Day: The Great War and the words we mustn't forget
5US 'wants to guard Pakistan's nuclear arsenal'
6Tensions grow as Chavez masses troops on border
7How a single bullet halted Taliban attack
8Mark Steel: You almost have to feel sorry for Gordon Brown
9Pound 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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