Anne McElvoy

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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29.01.10

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

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'

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

22.01.10

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

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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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

12.01.10

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

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

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

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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23.12.09

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

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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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

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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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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03.12.09

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

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

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

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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