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Expenses decision due on ex-minister
Monday 09 May 2011
David Laws, the former Liberal Democrat cabinet minister, will learn this week whether he will be censured for claiming up to £40,000 in expenses to pay rent to his partner.
Minor British Institutions: Princess Kate
Saturday 30 April 2011
Hello, Princess. But which one: the beautiful, dutiful and discreet; or the beautiful, wayward and wilful? Kate can look to two marriers-in who provide equally outstanding examples of either: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, her husband's great grandmother, and Diana Spencer, her ghostly mother-in-law.
The Killer of Little Shepherds, By Douglas Star
Sunday 13 March 2011
The French detectives who gave us CSI
Album: Handel, Alexander's Feast – Ludus Baroque / Neville-Towle (Delphian)
Sunday 27 February 2011
Richard Neville-Towle delivers a toothsome account of Alexander's Feast with Ludus Baroque.
Hugo Lloris flattered by Manchester United transfer talk
Monday 21 February 2011
France goalkeeper Hugo Lloris is flattered by talk linking him with a summer move to Manchester United but will not let it distract him from the Lyon cause.
Werther, Opéra National de Lyon, Lyon, France<br/>Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
Sunday 30 January 2011
Tenor turned TV presenter turned director, the extraordinary Rolando Villazon continues his conquest of opera
Gignac underachieving at Marseille
Monday 20 December 2010
Andre-Pierre Gignac has scored just one league goal in nearly five months with Marseille and is turning into the local fans' scapegoat following an expensive transfer this summer.
Laws set for return to government
Wednesday 24 November 2010
Former Liberal Democrat cabinet minister David Laws is set for a swift return to government, Prime Minister David Cameron indicated today.
Fin de siecle: Has French cookery had its just desserts?
Saturday 13 November 2010
Fifty years ago, Elizabeth David documented the diversity of French provincial cooking in a classic book. But is it a disappearing tradition? John Lichfield goes in search of temps perdu
Tory MP Nadine Dorries 'misled' voters with fiction on her blog
Thursday 21 October 2010
A Tory backbencher has admitted writing "fiction" on her blog to reassure constituents about how hard she was working.
Government Whip must repay £4,000 expenses
Thursday 14 October 2010
A Government Whip was ordered to apologise and repay more than £4,000 in parliamentary expenses today.
MP arrested over sex assault claim
Wednesday 13 October 2010
Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock has been arrested on suspicion of indecent assault following allegations of improper behaviour towards a female constituent.
The Sustainable Planet: three days of debate, opinion and discussion
Monday 27 September 2010
The Independent, along with Libération and la Repubblica, hosted a forum on The Sustainable Planet in Lyon on 24, 25 and 26 September, gathering politicians, environmental scientists and heads of business from across Europe to take part in a number of debates on the state of our planet.
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What, let gays get married? We must be bonkers
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Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
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Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
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EDL marches on Newcastle as attacks on Muslims increase tenfold in the wake of Woolwich machete attack which killed Drummer Lee Rigby
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Farewell, Shameless. Your heirs have work to do
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