Well, it's just gesture politics, isn't it, this 50p tax rate? Why are we punishing the wealth-creators? Look at all this wealth they've created, after all!... more
The legislation that allows the Government to cap the benefits that households receive at £26,000 a year goes through its final stages in the Commons today... more
Horse-lover Hebe Reynolds has beaten her brother Leo to be named the millionth visitor to West End show War Horse - because of her unusual name
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War Horse writer Michael Morpurgo is to urge the Government to abandon school league tables and fight child poverty after seeing a young boy shot by Israelis... more
The image that sticks of the Copenhagen summit is the YouTube clip of Gordon Brown ushering Al Gore into what turned out to be a broom cupboard... more
Some of Britain's top children's authors to stop visiting schools in protest at "preposterous" government plan to make them register on database in case they pose risk to children... more
Forget Hogwarts, old children's tales are the best read. So say Children's Laureates Quentin Blake, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson and Michael Rosen... more
Judging a books prize is like the biggest essay crisis you have ever had. For the past three months I have spent every spare waking hour with my nose in a novel, trying to choose between 80 competing for the £10,000 Orange Award for New Writers. The winner will be announced at the same ceremony as the main Orange Prize in June.... more
Nick Stafford's War Horse, an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's book about a Devon farm horse amid the horrors of the First World War, makes a welcome return.
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Government plans for children as young as four to be taught to write in sentences and use punctuation were attacked by a group of leading authors and educationists... more
War Horse is a fine, lyrical, emotionally charged piece of theatrical work that evokes a vanished, hierarchic England at war, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
Billy the Kid is play about football and friendship down the years which could actually have done with going into extra time, thinks Fiona Mountford.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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