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Violent video game breaks records with 4.7m sales in a day

13.11.09
Computer game Call of Duty sold 4.7million copies on its opening day, making it the biggest entertainment launch in history... more

Protect children from this ‘brutal’ warfare game, MP demands

10.11.09
Politicians call for restrictions on a computer game that allows players to kill innocent civilians... more

Security fears as Harman puts map of Parliament on the web

22.10.09
Harriet Harman was accused of giving an 'open invitation' to terrorists to attack Parliament by publishing a detailed plan of its layout on the internet... more

Amy Winehouse's father: I feel guilty for not keeping her off drugs

20.10.09
Amy Winehouse's father told MPs of his guilt in not being able to prevent her addiction to drugs... more

Belly laughs at ‘diversity’ night but dancers hide before Harman arrives

29.09.09
Labour heavyweights let their hair down at their party conference’s annual diversity night... more

Figures show big police overtime claims

17.08.09
Many police constables are earning more than their bosses by boosting their wages with large overtime claims, it was reported... more

£1m asylum plan helps one family leave UK

24.06.09
A £1million Home Office scheme to help failed asylum seekers leave Britain resulted in only one family returning home, it has emerged... more

'Territorialism of postcode gangs fuels knife crime'

02.06.09
Knife crime in London is being fuelled by "territorialism" among young people who use postcodes and transport hubs to form gang identities, a report by MPs warned... more

Harman pledges to relax Gurkha rules

07.05.09
Harriet Harman announced that concessions would be made to end the Gurkha row... more

Cabinet rivalries led to Brown's defeat over Gurkhas, claims Keith Vaz

06.05.09
Cabinet infighting has been blamed for the Government's humiliating defeat over the Gurkhas... more

Cameron ridicules Brown’s ‘terminal decline’ from power

06.05.09
David Cameron warned that Gordon Brown’s crumbling authority over the Cabinet would be “the big issue” at the next election... more

Lumley: PM gave pledge over Gurkhas

06.05.09
Gordon Brown promised concessions for the Gurkhas by the end of the month during talks with actress Joanna Lumley... more

Police threatened G20 activists with Tasers

20.04.09
Scotland Yard admitted that Territorial Support Group officers pointed Taser stun guns in a raid on protesters connected with the G20 demonstration... more

Police 'taught to treat the public as the enemy'

20.04.09
A former senior Scotland Yard commander accused the Met's leaders of teaching officers to treat the public as their "enemy"... more

Jesse Jackson: You must launch war on poverty to stop teenage killings

25.03.09
London will never defeat the scourge of teenage gang killings until it beats poverty, American civil rights campaigner the Rev Jesse Jackson said... more

MP calls for rape game to be banned

25.02.09
A senior Labour MP said he was "appalled" that a computer game that allows players to simulate stalking and raping women and children on the subway was available for sale on the internet... more

For ****'s sake, the swearing Mayor speaks the language of London

13.02.09
According to a leaked minute, Boris Johnson uttered the most commonly employed fricative expletive no fewer than 10 times during a recent phone conversation with the Home Affairs select committee chairman, Keith Vaz... more

Mayor Boris Johnson in F-word tirade

12.02.09
Boris Johnson launched a furious F-word attack against senior Labour MP Keith Vaz in a telephone call... more

Mayor 'changed his story four times over Damian Green's arrest'

11.02.09
Boris Johnson has been accused of changing his account of the arrest of Damian Green four times in an angry attack by a Commons committee... more

Vaz: Extremists are misusing jobs slogan

03.02.09
Labour tensions over the foreign workers row erupted again after one of Labour's most senior black MPs slapped down Gordon Brown's slogan of "British jobs for British workers"... more

MPs question Boris over raid on Tory

03.02.09
Boris Johnson faced fresh questions from Labour MPs over his role in the Damian Green affair... more

Minister: Wii the best boost for children's intelligence

29.12.08
Children who play computer games will do better at school than those who just sit and watch television, government minister Tom Watson claimed... more

MP Vaz faces sleaze probe into court case

02.10.08
Parliament's sleaze watchdog is to investigate claims that Labour MP Keith Vaz tried to interfere in a court case... more

Comment: Losing it

22.08.08
The loss by a Government contractor of a database with unencrypted information on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales is by no means the only recent example of sensitive data being mislaid... more

Batman 'too dark for under-12s'

05.08.08
The classification of the new Batman film was attacked by senior MPs... more

MPs launch probe into knife culture

16.07.08
An investigation into knife crime was launched by MPs today in a new bid to find solutions to the wave of teenage stabbings... more

Institutional racism 'still a problem for Met police'

01.07.08
Senior MPs have declared that the Met is still dogged by "institutional" race problems more than 10 years after the inquiry into Stephen Lawrence's murder... more

Black police leader joins race attack on Met chief

27.06.08
A black police leader has said he had to take a "deep breath" as he learned details of allegations made by Scotland Yard assistant commissioner Tarique Ghaffur against the Met... more

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