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David Cameron gambles on honesty over spending cuts

28.07.09
David Cameron will gamble at Conservative party conference by revealing where spending axe will fall if he wins power... more

Bercow was an ally but is not Speaker material, says Tebbit

22.06.09
Former Tory chairman Lord Tebbit praised maverick candidate John Bercow for taking on extremists in the party ranks while a student... more

John Bercow’s past comes back to haunt his bid

22.06.09
Tory hopeful John Bercow was embarrassed today when rivals unearthed old quotes attacking top Labour figures... more

Ministers back October poll after expenses clean-up

22.05.09
An Autumn general election is a growing prospect as Gordon Brown maps out his political fight-back, the Standard has learned... more

Labour support slumps to 22% as voters show fury

15.05.09
Labour's support was in meltdown as a new poll showed the party had slumped to a record low of 22 per cent... more

MPs expenses: Police urged to quiz Alistair Darling

12.05.09
Chancellor Alistair Darling is one of six MPs who could face a police probe over their expenses, the Standard can reveal... more

Senior Tories used expenses to fund country estates

12.05.09
David Cameron risked a war with his party’s grandees as he prepared to discipline MPs who used taxpayers cash to subsidise their country estates... more

It's anything but friendly to invite Pakistan and India to the Oval will be anything but

11.03.09
Football: The Mumbai attacks mean any game between India and Pakistan will be full of tension, or worse... more

Thatcher’s golliwog jibe axing is 'revenge on mum'

04.02.09
The BBC has been accused of taking revenge on Margaret Thatcher, after her daughter Carol was sacked from The One Show.... more

Carol Thatcher aide: This is BBC vendetta

04.02.09
The Carol Thatcher race row intensified as attention centred on who leaked her "golliwog" remark... more

Questions for the new 'Gissa job' generation

28.01.09
Back in the early 1980s, Alan Bleasdale's TV drama Boys From the Black Stuff gripped the nation... more

I’m more progressive than you: the new Obama one-upmanship

22.01.09
Gordon Brown, David Cameron and others are rushing to claim the new President as their own. Ownership of the P-word is going to be a hard-fought battle between Left and Right... more

Attack dog Humphrys hounds his BBC boss

31.10.08
BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons is on the rack over the corporation's failings in the Jonathan Ross obscene phone calls row... more

It's a question of judgment

22.10.08
IF GEORGE Osborne, the shadow chancellor, finds himself fighting for his political credibility, he has only himself to blame. When the question arose as to whether he had sought to solicit donations to the Tory Party from the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska while on holiday in Corfu, he should have issued an entirely frank and full statement, or none at all. What he actually did was to declare that "we didn't ask for money; we didn't receive any". ... more

Rushdie wins apology for 'appalling lies' in book

26.08.08
Sir Salman Rushdie has accepted an unreserved apology in the High Court from a former police driver who claimed the author had profited from the fatwa on his life... more

Cyclists lead the way on a weekend of pure gold

18.08.08
Like the Cubans in boxing or the Chinese in table tennis, Britain are ready to take ownership of an Olympic sport for the first time in living memory... more

Axing MPs' oath is 'attack on the state'

08.08.08
A campaign to scrap the historic requirement on MPs to swear allegiance to the monarch has been described as an "attack on the state"... more

Gloria Hunniford slams Jonathan Ross for 'lewd' sex talks with guests on TV chat show

01.07.08
Veteran TV presenter Gloria Hunniford has attacked Jonathan Ross for constantly talking about sex with his guests.... more

Jenni Murray: My love-hate relationship with my mother ... and the agony of watching her die from Parkinson's

28.06.08
Woman's Hour presenter Jenni Murray reveals in a new book her love-hate relationship with her difficult mother.... more

The English Game: Howzat? It very nearly bowled me over

15.05.08
Norman Tebbit's cricket test has had a good innings. ... more

Speech opera provides great theatre

23.07.07
If you hate people on mobiles in the theatre, Critical Mass is not for you, says Nick Kimberley.... more

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