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Book marks centenary of M15

05.10.09
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Power and the glory of The Grand Hotel

23.09.09
Brighton’s landmark hotel has seen it all, from the IRA bomb to Tony Blair’s reaction to 9/11. Next week’s conference gatherers will find it has lost none of its grandeur... more

Gordon Brown and David Cameron should take a leaf out of Barack Obama’s book

14.08.09
Gordon Brown and David Cameron should publish their full summer reading lists and be damned. The reading public has a right to know... more

From angel to activist: Heydon Prowse

13.08.09
From protesting outside Nobu to shaming MPs on expenses, Heydon Prowse is causing quite a stir. We talk to the former child actor who undid Alan Duncan... more

History tells us we're about to be left hanging around

07.07.09
Historians of modern politics are wearing out the corduroy on their elbows pondering whether we are on the verge of 1979, 1992 or 1997... more

Anthony Horwitz is young people's playwright

30.06.09
His Alex Rider books turned schoolboys on to reading. Now, Anthony Horowitz tells Nick Curtis, he hopes to do the same for theatre.... more

Briton world's oldest man at 113

19.06.09
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Digital Britain: What we have got here is a failure to communicate

17.06.09
Lord Carter's report maps out a future direction for the media industry - but he has left too many issues unresolved in the wilderness, says Roy Greenslade... more

Magic moments as the Brown cheerleaders stave off rebellion

09.06.09
A combination of humility, old-fashioned party management and sheer weight of numbers helped Gordon Brown survive the crunch meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party... more

New leader would not mean election

08.06.09
Most political commentators assume that if there is a new leader of the Labour Party there would have to be an immediate general election... more

When Labour is in power, stock markets fall

05.05.09
Former Warburgs director John Littlewood is pamphleteering for the Right-leaning Centre for Policy Studies. His research shows the London stock market has fallen 26% since Labour came into power in 1997 ... more

Union giant Jones dies after 'good innings' at 96

22.04.09
Jack Jones, one of the most influential and charismatic trade union leaders of all time, has died aged 96... more

I don’t buy the gospel according to Saint Tony

15.04.09
I never took to Tony Blair at all. I was never impressed by his populist touch, nor was I sure that the benefits of a Labour government that sacrificed its principles to the free market could be outweighed by the gains to the British people... more

Vengeful, brooding and secretive – will Brown become our own Nixon?

15.04.09
The PM’s modus operandi, as revealed by the Damian McBride affair, has troubling parallels with that of Richard Nixon, says one historian ... more

Politics

08.10.08
The Tories are in the ascendancy and gaining influence. Already the key figures in Westminster and beyond are thinking about the post-Brown generation.... more

Lord Limpet has a lesson for today’s quiet plotters

24.09.08
After all the talk of a Cabinet coup to unseat Gordon Brown, the Labour conference seems certain to conclude today with the Prime Minister firmly in the saddle... more

It's Ab fab for City but Scousers will be sick as parrots

03.09.08
The transfer window, Joey Barton and Michel Platini have David Mellor reaching for a few extra blood pressure tablets... more

BBC in mourning after veteran foreign correspondent Sir Charles Wheeler dies at 85

04.07.08
Veteran journalist Sir Charles Wheeler - one of the BBC's longest serving foreign correspondents - has died from lung cancer at the age of 85. ... more

Favourites and forgotten gems in Il Trovatore

03.06.08
Opera Holland Park offers a thrilling opportunity for a far wider audience to see and hear Il Trovatore.... more

The myth of Gordon's economic competence

12.05.08
The Prime Minister convinced us that on his watch, boom-and-bust cycles were a thing of the past. Now we know the truth, it is difficult to imagine Labour clinging to power... more

Defeat is Brown's 'John Major moment'

02.05.08
Gordon Brown concedes heavy defeats but pledges to lead Labour's fightback with a blizzard of new policies... more

Peer's grandson among the new Greens

27.02.08
They are the new pin-ups of the green movement - the young campaigners who today clambered atop the Palace of Westminster to protest at plans to expand Heathrow... more

Dresses that lifted the post-war blues

19.09.07
The V&A's nicely designed exhibition of 107 pieces, 90 per cent from its own collection, covers the Golden Age of Couture.... more

Death of a newsman

22.02.07
Nicholas de Jongh found himself drawn and moved by The Reporter, a play about James Mossman, a TV journalist who committed suicide 35 years ago.... more

Dining dens where the plot thickens

13.09.06
Forget the Commons - London's finest restaurants are where all of the real political scheming takes place, as former Labour minister Gerald Kaufman reveals.... more

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