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Aid commitment dropped from Queen's Speech
Brown's pledge to prevent future governments cutting overseas aid will appear as a draft bill only
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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
Stephen Byers to quit as MP
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Former Cabinet minister Stephen Byers is to stand down from Parliament at the next general election, he announced today.
Stephen Byers: A Blairite thorn in Brown's side
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Stephen Byers is one of a small group of prominent Blairite "ultras" who have been a thorn in the side of Gordon Brown since he became Prime Minister.
Cultural Olympiad 'will be a fiasco as big as Dome', says Tory spokesman
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Shadow culture minister expresses his fears for the future of £80m project
Labour hails by-election victory
Friday, 13 November 2009
Nigel Morris: PM ended traumatic week on high note as he celebrated Labour’s "tremendous" victory in the Glasgow North East by-election.
PM to push for 5,000 extra troops in Afghanistan
Friday, 13 November 2009
Britain has pledged to provide a 500-strong reinforcement if partner nations will share the burden.
'Slimline' Queen's Speech to push financial reform
Friday, 13 November 2009
Election-year legislative programme to prioritise debt and social care.
Brown to get tough on student visas and foreign skilled workers
Friday, 13 November 2009
Portrayal of immigration concerns as racist is 'lazy elitism', says PM.
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4 Royal Navy witnessed Somali pirates kidnap British couple
5 Claims of racist abuse by Romford Scout troop
6 Battered child wins compensation from three-year-old
7 Crime Exchange: What we can learn from each other
8 Stephen Byers to quit as MP at next general election
9 British soldiers sexually abused us, claim Iraqis
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1 Britain's Abu Ghraib: Did Britain collude with US in abuse of Iraqis?
2 Cultural Olympiad 'will be a fiasco as big as Dome', says Tory spokesman
3 Claims of racist abuse by Romford Scout troop
4 Royal Navy witnessed Somali pirates kidnap British couple
5 Be aggressive over enforcing fines, Straw tells magistrates
6 Woman 'too young' for job wins landmark ruling
7 Crime Exchange: What we can learn from each other
8 Home Secretary agrees protocol with advisers
9 Battered child wins compensation from three-year-old
10 Coast ravaged by 'worst storm of the year'
11 Stephen Byers: A Blairite thorn in Brown's side
12 Ministry of Defense investigating fresh Iraq abuse claims
13 Confessions of a gold digger
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1Britain's Abu Ghraib: Did Britain collude with US in abuse of Iraqis?
2Britain the economic 'sick man of Europe'
3Leading article: The Prime Minister's black week suddenly turns rosy
4Howard Jacobson: Nick Griffin looks as if he'd be light on his feet. So here's what to do with him
5Justice at Ground Zero for September 11 accused
6Royal Navy witnessed Somali pirates kidnap British couple
7Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Gordon Brown's very public decline
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• Howard Jacobson: Nick Griffin looks as if he'd be light on his feet...
... So here's what to do with him
• Christina Patterson: Didn't we have a lovely time the day we went to Basra
What do you do when you've bombed the living daylights out of a country?
• David Lister: Great writers don't need a helping hand
There's an unusual story about the new Alan Bennett play which opens at the National Theatre next Tuesday
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