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Tube chiefs and union bosses in joint push for peace

11.05.11
An unprecedented joint review of industrial disputes affecting the London tube network will take place to halt future strikes... more

Suite en Blanc a long-lost treasure

18.03.11
Suite en Blanc is a clever, well-judged revival that enhances the reputation of both English National Ballet's dancers and its director Wayne Eagling... more

David Cameron must back words with action on growth

03.02.11
The closure of Pfizer's Kent plant is a reminder to the PM that his vision for our economy faces many obstacles... more

Anthony Howard, the people's spy in the corridors of power for 50 years

20.12.10
Political journalist and broadcaster Anthony Howard has died aged 76. Peter Kellner pays tribute to the former New Statesman editor... more

Forget football — now support our theatre

03.12.10
Why don’t David Cameron and Prince William show the same level of commitment to theatre that they do to football?... more

‘Bootiful’ turkey tycoon Bernard Matthews dies

26.11.10
Bernard Matthews, the Norfolk turkey farmer who achieved celebrity status through his “bootiful” catchphrase, dies at the age of 80... more

Carry on striking in Made in Dagenham

01.10.10
Made in Dagenham has been turned into a feelgood fest that will warm the cockles or leave you cold depending on how you feel about its star, Sally Hawkins... more

Last ace up Gordon Brown’s sleeve is his power to go to the Queen

11.05.10
If David Cameron had a free choice he might well tell Nick Clegg to take a running jump into the Thames... more

Election is a sideshow to world markets drama

07.05.10
City Comment: The best bet in politics now is David Cameron will be the next Prime Minister, invited by the Queen to form a government on Monday or Tuesday... more

Alex Ferguson mocks David Cameron's 'squeaky bum time'

28.04.10
Manchester United manager and Labour diehard Sir Alex Ferguson uses one of his most famous phrases to attack David Cameron... more

Prospect grows of two elections this year

31.03.10
Gordon Brown could continue as Prime Minister if there is no clear winner in the upcoming election with proposals to give him 18 days to try and form a working government... more

Now it’s the Yahs who are having the last laugh

25.03.10
Have you seen Gap Yah yet? The three-minute comedy sketch is a YouTube sensation, currently getting around 50,000 fresh hits a day... more

Michael Foot, firebrand of the Left and former Evening Standard editor, dies aged 96

03.03.10
Michael Foot, one of the towering political figures of the past century and a former Evening Standard editor, dies at 96... more

'Scrooge' Treasury chiefs award £10 pension bonus

22.12.09
Pensioners have been awarded a Christmas bonus of just £10 this year - the same amount as when it was introduced almost four decades ago... more

Thatcher set for Downing Street return

23.11.09
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is returning to 10 Downing Street to attend the unveiling of her portrait... more

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

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

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

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

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

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


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