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UN ambassador threatened to quit over Iraq new
Friday, 27 November 2009
British ambassador warned he might resign if the UN Security Council failed to pass a resolution on Iraq.
Why Conservatives failed the test on Islamic schools
Friday, 27 November 2009
Richard Garner explains how the Tory leader's attack on the Government has unravelled
Afghanistan 'needs political solution'
Friday, 27 November 2009
The struggle in Afghanistan will not be won by military means alone, Gordon Brown admitted last night as he warned that it must be accompanied by a political solution.
Tories' public services plan 'will save billions'
Friday, 27 November 2009
Conservatives propose to transform public sector with payment-by-results scheme
MPs are us: visiting Parliament reveals a very human mix of personalities and behaviours new
Friday, 27 November 2009
We’ve seen the headlines, read the comment threads, heard the conversations in the pubs and over the dinner table: MPs are not like us, they are not good people.
Diplomat attacks Blair's Iraq decision
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Sir Christopher Meyer, the former British ambassador to the United States, said that Margaret Thatcher would have insisted on a more coherent strategy.
Iraq: The inquiry cover-up that will keep us in the dark
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Gordon Brown was accused of strangling the Iraq war inquiry at birth by refusing to let it make public sensitive documents that shed light on the conflict.
Parties face new rules to end 'white men's club'
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Details of candidates should be revealed to end discrimination, says inquiry
Balls accuses Cameron over Muslim schools claim
Thursday, 26 November 2009
A fierce political row over funding for schools with alleged links to Islamist extremists raged on today, with Children's Secretary Ed Balls accusing David Cameron of making false statements in the House of Commons.
Tories' election war chest gets £5m boost
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Conservative donations are more than all other parties combined
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4 Officers who passed on data details are named
5 Neighbours not amused by developers' joke name
6 Tories' public services plan 'will save billions'
7 Train cleaners strike over 'poverty pay' new
8 Boys in court after 'abusing children in park' new
9 Woman's body found after supermarket shooting new
10 Pay rise for peers – no receipts required
11 Aristocrat blew £1.6m of family's charity on living the high life
12 Office 'scamps' long to work abroad new
13 RAF's wartime reconnaissance photos go online in new archive
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1 Can a Muslim say happy Christmas to his friends?
2 New evidence of police attacks on G20 victim
3 Women learn to 'stitch up' colleagues
4 Fathers 4 Justice stage rooftop protest at Harman's home
5 Independent Live podcast: Is Politics in Crisis?
6 Russia 'backed dissident's poisoning'
7 Dispersal policy 'put asylum-seekers at risk'
8 Minister admits total failure of Sellafield 'MOX' plant
9 Pay rise for peers – no receipts required
10 Revealed: Government's 'heartless' treatment of forced marriage victims
11 The knives are out in the razor wars
12 Hacker loses final appeal against extradition to US
13 Unnamed soldier is the 200th Briton killed in Afghanistan
14 Funeral for hero Pc killed in Cumbrian floods new
15 Man held after tonnes of illegal e-waste are exported to Africa
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2Hacker loses final appeal against extradition to US
3Matthew Norman: Nightmare on Palin Street, Part 2
4Adrian Hamilton: The one thing Chilcot won't reveal is the truth
5Regime change 'may have been planned at ranch'
6Iraq: The inquiry cover-up that will keep us in the dark
7Johann Hari: Alan Bennett and the question of innocence
8The little island and its big, green victory
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• Steve Richards: The real reasons why Blair went to war
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A sapling stuck into a pot is presented as a private little planet saver
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