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Radical plans to make top mandarins 'chief executives'
Sunday 12 May 2013
Civil servants seen as 'untouchable and unaccountable' could also be put on four-year contracts
Abu Qatada asks Archbishop of Canterbury for prison meeting
Sunday 12 May 2013
The radical cleric Abu Qatada has written to the Archbishop of Canterbury asking for a private meeting at Belmarsh prison. Abu Qatada is understood to have written to the Most Rev Justin Welby at Lambeth Palace recently, to ask him for a personal visit, even providing him with a prison visiting order.
Expenses watchdog takes action against Tory MP Stewart Jackson in £54,000 dispute over taxpayer-funded homes
Thursday 09 May 2013
The MPs' expenses watchdog has launched legal action to recover £54,000 from an MP who claimed taxpayer cash to pay mortgage interest on a property in his constituency.
In pictures: the massive 24-hour-a-day construction project to provide huge boost for London's harassed commuters
Monday 22 April 2013
More than five miles already built of Crossrail's 26 miles of tunnels
In pictures: the massive 24-hour-a-day construction project to provide huge boost for London's harassed commuters
Monday 22 April 2013
More than five miles already built of Crossrail's 26 miles of tunnels
Margaret Thatcher funeral: Procession passes Downing Street
Wednesday 17 April 2013
In life she was a symbol of this small but significant London location and now, in death, Baroness Thatcher passed Downing Street for the last time today.
Home Office staff start strike action in pay and jobs dispute
Tuesday 16 April 2013
Staff at the Home Office will go on strike today in the latest phase of three months of industrial action by civil servants in a dispute over pay, jobs and terms and conditions.
Cameron pays tribute to Thatcher, but a friend reveals her true feelings
Friday 12 April 2013
It's been reported that Thatcher was apparently so unimpressed by David Cameron, that she didn't want to die while he was Prime Minister.
Roads closed for Margaret Thatcher's funeral
Thursday 11 April 2013
Motorists are being advised to avoid Westminster and the City of London on the day of Baroness Thatcher's funeral next week.
Row over Margaret Thatcher statue location
Thursday 11 April 2013
A row has broken out over suggestions that a statue should be built in honour of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
Legal age to buy crackers cut as part of 'pointless' red tape rules to be scrapped from tomorrow
Friday 05 April 2013
Dozens of cuts to red tape will come into force tomorrow, including reducing the age for buying Christmas crackers, saving businesses millions of pounds, the Government has announced.
MP Eric Joyce to face no action over House of Commons bar brawl
Thursday 28 March 2013
MP Eric Joyce will not face charges following his arrest over an alleged brawl in a House of Commons bar.
Could George Osborne fall on his sword?
Sunday 24 March 2013
The Conservatives are now 10 points behind Labour. They need to be four ahead
Review: The Real Iron Lady - Working with Margaret Thatcher, By Gillian Shephard
Saturday 23 March 2013
Why the grocer's daughter turned into the Iron Lady
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You thought Ryanair's attendants had it bad? Wait 'til you hear about their pilots
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Sam Wallace: The second coming of Mourinho will be a reunion that can only end in tears
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Civil partnerships amendment 'could wreck' gay marriage Bill and cost taxpayer £4bn, Government sources warn
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It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more
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