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Stand up for our city's money, Boris

With Gordon Brown's raid on London Development Agency funds, the capital is getting a taste of the pressures ahead on spending  Comments 

Lindsay Johns

Lindsay Johns

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Bleached-out Michael Jackson is no role model for me

It is exactly a week since the ridiculous mass hysteria first erupted over the death of MJ (as he is now being called). For seven days the nation has been deluged with little else but the ceaseless outpourings of grief  Comments 

Peter Tatchell

Peter Tatchell

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Go on Sarah, get Gordon Brown to lift the gay marriage ban

We've come a long way, baby! In 1972, I helped organise London's first Gay Pride parade. There were only 700 of us. We got lots of boos and no support from MPs  Comments 

Zac Goldsmith

Zac Goldsmith

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My surefire cure for voter apathy

No doubt many MPs will hope that the plans to overhaul their expenses system, whatever the eventual form of the Bill that gets passed, will help a sceptical public get past its anger and rediscover its faith in the political system. That hope is deeply misguided  Comments 

Liza Campbell

Liza Campbell

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New promises won't end this schools muddle

As a parent, I often feel baffled by the Government's approach to education. Only last week, the Department for Children, Schools and Families was at its micro-managerial best  Comments 

Marina Lewycka

Marina Lewycka

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So, I'm a skip addict - avocado bath suite, anyone?

I can never walk by a skip without peering inside. There's something so tempting about those big yellow tubs that bulge cheekily out from a row of parked cars  Comments 

Rosie Boycott

Rosie Boycott

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London is full of people growing their own produce

London is full of people wanting - and succeeding - to grow their own. Whether it's in a window box or by turning previously derelict stretches of land into vegetable growing plots where people can garden together, food is a great uniter  Comments 

Anne McElvoy

Anne McElvoy

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Labour risks losing North, says Blears

Labour is in danger of losing the electorally vital battle for the North and shedding "aspiring" voters, says former Communities Secretary Hazel Blears.  Comments 

Chris Addison

Chris Addison

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Do we really need another King of Pop?

Since the staggering and untimely death of the frustrating, shattered musical genius Michael Jackson, we, the public, have pretty much been through all of the stages of grief  Comments 

Sarah Sands

Sarah Sands

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There's now a science to writing great books

Judging the Samuel Johnson Prize began as an over-enthusiastic book club - each of us had 40 books to read in three months - and ended in personal transformation  Comments 

Roy Greenslade

Roy Greenslade

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Dangers are mounting for BBC that won't listen to critics

Does the BBC have a death wish? I dislike lining up with the corporation's knee-jerk critics, but I have to admit that I am rapidly becoming an exasperated supporter of Britain's, and the world's, most renowned public service broadcaster.  Comments 

Anthony Hilton

Anthony Hilton

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Bringing boards to heel is going to be a tough battle

It was only this week that I realised how fraught is the world of corporate governance following the debacle of the banks and the subsequent suggestions that shareholders should in future do more to rein back management whose strategies seemed to embody excessive risk  Comments 

Simon Jenkins

Simon Jenkins

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Enough of digital fun - we want the real thing now

A funny thing happened on my way back from Springsteen at Glastonbury. I was driving across Hyde Park and distinctly heard Springsteen again. And I mean the man, not a recording  Comments 

Emma Duncan

Emma Duncan

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London leads the world in selling dreams

The starving victims of the ninth circle of hell in Dante's Inferno gnaw at each other's heads while their bodies are frozen in ice  Comments 

Josephine Hart

Josephine Hart

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A poetic masterpiece that must be heard

Language "caught alive" is an intoxicating experience in all poetry - the sound is "the gold in the ore", said Robert Frost - and most particularly so with the poems of TS Eliot  Comments 

Stephen Robinson

Stephen Robinson

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Iran's sorry tale of two embassies

It was the sort of response that shows the other side holds all the cards. "Unacceptable," said the Foreign Secretary of the Iranian government's arrest over the weekend of up to nine locally hired Iranian staff working at the British embassy in Tehran  Comments 

Michael Fallon

Michael Fallon

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The danger when Chancellor and Governor fall out

When sinking deep in debt, it’s not the time to ignore the bank manager, warns one senior Parliamentarian  Comments 

Imogen Stubbs

Imogen Stubbs

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A-levels must test more than ticking boxes

There are many playground rumours and urban myths about English A-levels being marked by computers, or by people in Indian call centres marking from check-lists  Comments 

Kitty Ussher

Kitty Ussher

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Why I'm putting my family before Parliament

Spending evenings with work colleagues is (usually) pleasant. But doing it through necessity practically every term-time weekday evening, to the exclusion of family life, is the one and only reason why I have decided to not re-stand as an MP at the next election  Comments 

Nancy Dell'Olio

Nancy Dell'Olio

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Attack Silvio Berlusconi for his policies, not his private life

The scandal now engulfing Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi may be generating plenty of coverage both here and in Italy. But it's a pretty sad comment on the state of Italian politics  Comments 

Philip Bobbitt

Philip Bobbitt

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Obama is right: this is no time for posturing on Iran

The Iran crisis has presented President Barack Obama with a very difficult problem - and the first real test of his new policy of engagement with the Muslim world  Comments 

Sam Leith

Sam Leith

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What's so great about a public enquiry on Iraq?

It's almost enough to make you feel sorry for Tony Blair. The former prime minister was reluctant to directly lobby Gordon Brown for the Iraq war inquiry to be held in private, fearing his approach would be leaked to the papers and make it look like he was trying to orchestrate a cover-up  Comments 

Rickie Haywood-Williams

Rickie Haywood-Williams

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Forget mud and wellies, London is festival heaven

Glastonbury kicks off this week and once again has managed to grab the festival headlines. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the mud, the wellies or pitching a tent up, but the fact is I don't need to leave London to attend a fantastic festival this summer  Comments 

Justin Cartwright

Justin Cartwright

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Andy Murray’s time has come, and let us all embrace it

Andy Murray's journey to the top has been quicker and more remarkable than I imagined  Comments 


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