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Scarlett accused of misleading inquiry
Michael Savage: Former MoD expert contradicts claim by Britain's former spy chief about reliability of claims over Iraq weapons of mass destruction
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Government aid to car industry is branded 'wasted opportunity'
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Not one company has received money through the £2.3bn loan guarantee plan
Chilcot inquiry censored for more than a minute
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
The openness of the Iraq inquiry has been thrown into doubt again after its chairman, Sir John Chilcot, censored its public proceedings for the first time yesterday.
Chief medical officer to step down after 11 years
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Sir Liam Donaldson, the Government's chief medical officer, will step down next May, it was announced yesterday. He has been in the job since 1998, and had originally intended to leave earlier this year.
Mother of all parliaments to open first nursery
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
The squabbling and shouting that takes place within the House of Commons has led many to conclude that the mother of all parliaments better resembled a nursery than a hub of democracy. Yet while honourable members may have been accused of behaving like children for years, their repeated demands for childcare facilities for their own offspring have been rejected.
MPs reject crackdown on 'home school' parents
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
A Government plan to crack down on parents who educate their children at home will be rejected today by MPs.
Troops to get more Chinooks
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
The Ministry of Defence today announced plans to buy 22 new Chinook helicopters to increase air support on the frontline in Afghanistan.
Minister dismisses bell-tower expenses furore
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Defence minister Quentin Davies today dismissed the furore over his expense claim for a bell-tower on his constituency home as "a joke".
Miliband attacks judges over torture ruling
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
The Government has launched a damaging attack on the judiciary in its increasingly desperate legal battle to stop the public from seeing evidence of Britain's involvement in torture.
MoD's attempts to save cash 'drive up equipment prices'
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
'Pay later' approach exacerbating financial woes, says watchdog
'UK was warned over Iraqis' capacity for violence'
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
The UK's former ambassador to the UN said his Egyptian counterpart cautioned him about military action against Iraq.
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1 Exclusive: Scarlett accused of misleading inquiry
2 Johnson building an army of private police
3 Appeal over danger men wanted abroad
4 Navy and RAF pay the price to fund Afghan war
5 Chilcot inquiry censored for more than a minute
6 All change please – how new Tube line left passengers baffled
7 Chief medical officer to step down after 11 years
8 BA seeks injunction to stop 12-day strike
9 Women go online to share child sex-abuse fantasies
10 Supermarket accidentally pays worker £1.4m
11 Mother of all parliaments to open first nursery
12 Police ‘should have reason to stop pictures being taken’
13 Knifeman facing life for attack on gay couple
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1 All change please – how new Tube line left passengers baffled
2 Johnson building an army of private police
3 Gap between rich and poor 'widest in 40 years'
4 Government in climbdown over vetting database
5 Exclusive: Scarlett accused of misleading inquiry
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1The battle for British Airways
2Dubya: The surreal afterlife of an ex-President
3All change please ? how new Tube line left passengers baffled
4Simon Calder: Bumper pay deals from a bygone era threaten BA's future
5Burka Barbie, a doll for the modern age
6Brown offers £1.2bn in a bid to break climate deadlock
7Brown 'harming Labour prospects'
8Mark Lynas: 'At this rate, Copenhagen will be a disaster'
Columnist Comments
• Hamish McRae: We have a lot to learn from Ireland
The biggest lesson is that, if a country has to impose austerity, do so swiftly
• Mark Steel: Sussex will be desert before the climate deniers accept reality
Many prominent sceptics seem to be in the pay of the energy industry
• Terence Blacker: Governed by the ill wind of deception
There are, it seems, two categories of lying in public life
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