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Harriet Harman vs the Pope in the great equality war

03.02.10

Well, you have to admire Pope Benedict's timing. The Vatican's intervention in Harriet Harman's equalities bill is one of those meteors which...
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Iraq inquiry sketch: Tony Blair is slippery as a jellyfish

29.01.10

The former prime minister is silken, judicious and determined not to give ground as he gives evidence to the Chilcot panel

Harriet Harman - from Sloane to class warrior

28.01.10

Labour's deputy leader admits she once spoke like Lady Diana but she has since made a career waging war on the elite to 'redress unfairness'

Right-wing or just right-on? Welcome to woolly Britain

27.01.10

Are you feeling just right-on or Right-wing today? Chances are, to judge by the latest survey of social trends, a bit bi-curious

The tutor trap: the rise and rise of private lessons

22.01.10

More than ever, the ‘anxious classes’ fear for their children’s education. And that means more private lessons

Class war is off — now it’s the battle for opportunity

20.01.10

Uh oh, the education wars are in full cry. Gordon Brown is pushing "social mobility" but David Cameron is plucking at Middle England's anxieties - and...
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Alastair Campbell shows us the worst of New Labour

13.01.10

Alastair Campbell, the man who helped burnish New Labour's public image, is doing more than anyone else alive to discredit it

Alastair Campbell was like an edgy soccer boss explaining a poor season

12.01.10

We gathered expectantly at the Chilcot inquiry to watch Alastair Campbell telling the unvarnished truth about the Iraq war

Truth, lies and the chatterati

08.01.10

The attack by a Government schools chief on uninformed gossip at 'Islington dinner parties' has had N1's inhabitants choking on their polenta

Bonnie and Clyde failed to get their man

07.01.10

So Labour's Bonnie and Clyde failed to get their man: Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon were an unlikely pair of giant killers

Dave, Gordon and Nick - the three-legged race is on

06.01.10

The great three-legged race of 2010 is upon us. Bounding around with unholy energy, all three party leaders are at large trying to grab the early...
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Lights on, gloves off for the great TV clash of 2010

23.12.09

Televised debates between party leaders are long overdue in this country. They may well surprise us

Gordon Brown's union friends now put him to the test

16.12.09

So it's a happy Christmas to all from the BA workforce. Flights grounded, holidays off, the future of the nation's red, white and blue carrier under a...
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10 intelligent beauty buys

16.12.09

Brains are never a barrier to looking and feeling attractive - and these are the gifts that the clever money should go on

Chancellor woos the two fat ladies in bingo land

09.12.09

First the good news. Bingo duty is being cut by two per cent. This unashamed embrace of the Two Fat Ladies' vote (Labour heartland anyone?) was about...
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A tough speech - but not quite a candid one

09.12.09

The pre-Budget report was in many ways a foregone conclusion. That the public finances are overspent and the Chancellor needs swingeing measures even...
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Secret language speaks volumes for the fog of war

03.12.09

On the menu at the Iraq inquiry today: one Whitehall smooth operator and a Silver Fox

How drink nearly ruined my life, by Speaker's wife

03.12.09

Wife of Commons speaker John Bercow reveals she had been a 'binge drinker' who had a series of one-night stands in her twenties

Sally Bercow: 'Two bottles a day, one-night stands, my life was out of control'

03.12.09

The Speaker’s wife Sally Bercow on beating her drink problem, why David Cameron is ‘just a merchant of spin’ and how she wants to stand as a Labour MP

Obama's war is now a battlefield for Mr Brown

02.12.09

One more heave: the new gospel of the Afghanistan intervention was proclaimed overnight in Washington. Its reverberations will shake British politics...
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