With Gordon Brown's raid on London Development Agency funds, the capital is getting a taste of the pressures ahead on spending Comments
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
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
Among the great and good, the wise and wonderful, there is a tendency to condemn reality TV Comments
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
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
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
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
Labour is in danger of losing the electorally vital battle for the North and shedding "aspiring" voters, says former Communities Secretary Hazel Blears. Comments
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When sinking deep in debt, it’s not the time to ignore the bank manager, warns one senior Parliamentarian Comments
The woman pushed through the crowd towards Alan Yentob. “Michael Jackson has died,” she said, her irises huge Comments
The Mayor should not hope to diminish the Ian Clement scandal by announcing improvements to the Tube Comments
The censors can’t agree on Brüno, Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest atrocity, in which he impersonates a gay Austrian fashion pundit Comments
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
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
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
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
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
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
Andy Murray's journey to the top has been quicker and more remarkable than I imagined Comments
Milibanana's latest blunder. India is too rich, er, poor.
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