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David Cameron: I will scrap hunting ban

18.09.09
David Cameron has signalled he would back repealing the ban on hunting if Tories win the next general election... more

No10 refuses protesters' letter

14.07.09
Anti-war campaigners were refused access to Downing Street to deliver a letter calling for troops to be pulled out of Afghanistan... more

Headteachers — not money — make state schools work

09.07.09
Despite the millions Labour has poured into education, we live in a city with a chronic shortage of reputable secondary schools ... more

Profile: Sacha Baron Cohen and the making of Bruno

18.06.09
Sacha Baron Cohen is cinema’s most secretive star. So what — and who — is behind his latest outrageous creation, unveiled last night?.... more

Mick Jagger fights to save cinema where Stones played

08.06.09
Rolling Stone Mick Jagger has given his backing to a campaign to save a historic art deco cinema in London... more

Battle of Britain hero finally given a place on plinth ... but only for six months

08.05.09
A Battle of Britain war hero is to be honoured with a temporary statue on the fourth plinth after a dispute over the commitment to contemporary art in Trafalgar Square... more

Battle of Britain hero's statue 'too traditional for Trafalgar plinth'

05.05.09
Plans for a statue of a Battle of Britain hero in Trafalgar Square are expected to be rejected because they are not "avant-garde" enough... more

'Put Battle of Britain hero on the plinth'

27.04.09
Novelist Frederick Forsyth and retired military leaders pledged support for a statue of Battle of Britain hero Sir Keith Park on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth as art experts meet to consider the scheme... more

Baby Labour

22.04.09
Georgia Gould isn’t the only child of a Labour dynasty making her mark in politics. Emily Hill reveals the other holders of famous names following the family tradition... more

What a carry on, Curtis

02.04.09
He reinvented the feelgood British comedy — but Richard Curtis takes it too far in smutty tribute to Sixties pirate radio, The Boat That Rocked.... more

Are you in with the right tea set?

01.04.09
From builders’ brew to Earl Grey — how you like a cuppa says a lot about a person... more

Hard to ignore Rogers’ bearish view of Britain

23.01.09
What to make of investment guru Jim Rogers’ damning of Britain’s faltering economy?... more

All one-man bands in the gig economy

15.01.09
Tina Brown reveals her thinking on the downturn and decides we are in a new "gig" economy. "Now that everyone has a project-to-project freelance career," she asserts in her website, The Daily Beast, "everyone is a hustler." ... more

Thousands to march through London over Middle East conflict

09.01.09
Thousands of protesters will take to the streets this weekend in demonstrations over Israel's assault on Gaza... more

Police on alert after riot at Israel's London embassy

29.12.08
Riot police were on standby in London after pro-Palestinian demonstrators tried to storm the Israeli embassy... more

Bragg still has bite

09.12.08
Coasting after his move to the Dorset coast, this year's Mr Love And Justice has finally re‑engaged Billy Bragg.... more

Environment

08.10.08
Once an area ignored by politicians, it is now a key issue with battles such as airport expansion taking centre stage ... more

I'm no fan of this circus but real stars still thrill us

11.08.08
Elsewhere in today's paper, you may notice possibly the most ill-advised career change since George W Bush left the oil business: I have become, for the next two days only, a sports reporter... more

Literature Festival is Making Hay in the metropolis

04.07.08
Surely if Hay-on-Wye can rig up a worldclass literary festival, our bustling metropolis can rouse itself for a couple of weeks of book chat? ... 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

Ex-minister joins fight to stop sale of playing fields

27.06.08
A former Government minister has threatened to take a London council to court over its decision to sell school playing fields to property developers... more

Tony Benn joins fight to stop Holland Park fields being sold off

24.06.08
Labour veteran Tony Benn has backed moves to stop a multi-million pound sell-off of playing fields at one of London's top schools... more

Holland Park school design 'is like a slab block'

23.06.08
Plans to build Britain's most expensive state school in one of the country's wealthiest residential areas were blasted by English Heritage... more

Nigel Kennedy signs up to Davis's freedom rally

16.06.08
Violinist Nigel Kennedy and former British Army colonel Tim Collins are set to support David Davis's campaign against the Government's 42-day detention plans... more

Sun's battle to lift sales can't hide problem for all red-tops

14.05.08
The Sun is Britain's most loved newspaper brand and also its most hated newspaper brand. This contradiction, revealed in a Marketing magazine survey this week (and not for the first time), is more understandable than it appears... more

Dunwoody, the battling MP who stood up to Labour, dies

18.04.08
Gwyneth Dunwoody, the longest-serving female Labour MP who has died aged 77, was hailed as a champion of the railways who was prepared to stand up to her own party to defend her beliefs... more

Music carnival with a message

10.04.08
The Love Music Hate Racism Carnival is set to take over Victoria Park with a host of top acts, including Hard-Fi and Patrick Wolf, on the bill but this event is about more than having a fun day out.... more

The ghost of Blair stalks Brown's French feast

26.03.08
Today's Anglo-French summit is an opportunity for the PM to do a historic deal. But his predecessor may be set to upstage him in Europe... more

Walk free in London

20.02.08
To coincide with British Tourism Week, the UK's famed Blue Badge Guides are presenting a series of free London public walks.... more

The casualties of Moore

01.11.07
As a general release documentary, Sicko fails to either educate or entertain and its muddy political message detracts from important issues.... more

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