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Met denies 'tricking' way in to search MP's office

03.11.09
Scotland Yard has vowed to fight claims a senior officer 'tricked' a Commons official into allowing the controversial search of an MP's Parliamentary office... more

Helen Hamlyn is the lady of the first night

08.10.09
Helen Hamlyn talks about reviving her late husband’s scheme to make the Royal Opera House affordable for first-timers.... more

Sporting Miscellanies

02.10.09
Match of the Day's metamorphosis into football's Algonquin Round Table gathers pace... more

The conference speeches that fall on deaf ears

01.10.09
For a communications technology used by Cicero, political speeches are remarkably resilient... more

It's the US that has hacked into our system

03.08.09
Should Gary McKinnon be extradited?” is the question we are all invited to consider. The only conclusion to be reached is: “no”. But what we think doesn’t have much bearing on the matter, does it? ... more

The ID card is on its last legs - just let it die with dignity

07.05.09
As Jacqui Smith's death notices are published in all the newspapers, one further Home Office corpse is still, for the moment, twitching... more

We've no cash to waste on ID cards

06.05.09
The scale of the national debt is such that any sane government would be searching for every possible saving it could make. But not this one... more

Pilots to boycott trial of ID cards

05.05.09
Airline pilots will refuse to take part in the national identity card scheme when trials begin at London City and Manchester airports this autumn... more

End of a bad week: Labour MPs say Brown is 'doomed'

01.05.09
Gordon Brown took a fresh battering as Labour MPs said he was “doomed” and former cabinet minister Charles Clarke said he was ashamed to be in the party... more

Lift £3,000 cap on fees or we'll lose our elite status say universities

29.04.09
Britain's leading universities warned they are in danger of losing their elite status because student fees fail to cover the costs of tuition... more

Blunkett U-turn: Scrap £5billion ID card scheme

28.04.09
Former home secretary David Blunkett urged Gordon Brown to make yet another U-turn today by calling on the Government to dump its £5 billion ID cards... more

Terrorist hackers could target London Olympics, Blunkett warns

27.04.09
Cyber-criminals could target the London 2012 Olympics, former Home Secretary David Blunkett warns... more

Yarn spun with such accuracy it made me wince

17.04.09
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Literacy lessons have been fatal for English, says teachers' leader

09.04.09
The drive to improve literacy in schools has killed the subject of English and left a generation of children unable to speak properly, a teachers' leader warns... more

Brake now, my lollipop stick is watching you

23.02.09
Lollipop men and ladies in London are to have spy cameras fitted in their sticks in a move which will reignite the debate about the spread of a "surveillance society"... more

£86m bill for 'plastic police' who issue one fine every two years

20.02.09
Each police community support officer in London hands out an average of one penalty notice every two years... more

Cannabis now Class B but spot fines shelved

26.01.09
Cannabis laws are in turmoil as the drug was upgraded to a Class B substance but new tougher fines were not put in place... more

Where the political elite go for dinner and spicy gossip

02.12.08
From a cheap-and-cheerful curry house adored by the Lib-Dems to a "1970s-style" Italian restaurant that has become a Tory stronghold, the favoured establishments of London's politicos are revealed ... more

Labour's left it too late to get a grip on immigration

20.10.08
The immigration minister Phil Woolas implies he will get tough. But, says the shadow Home Secretary, the Government is still not facing up to the problems... more

Cannabis users face £80 fine then ‘three strikes and you’re jailed’

13.10.08
Cannabis users will face £80 on-the-spot fines under a crackdown announced by the Home Office... more

Home Office poised to lose £1.5m on Blunkett's house

02.09.08
It has been standing empty and deteriorating since former home secretary David Blunkett left it 18 months ago... more

'Macho' ministers deny pupils the chance to read for fun, says Laureate

09.07.08
A leading writer has attacked the Government's "macho" education policies for deterring children from reading books... more

Bank left reeling as deputy quits

19.06.08
The Bank of England was in turmoil after the resignation of Sir John Gieve, the deputy accused of neglecting his duties during the collapse of Northern Rock... more

Be honest, you'd rather read Jordan than Cherie

16.05.08
One book of memoirs has already been genuinely popular this year - Jordan: Pushed to the Limit, by Katie Price... more

The curse of Harry: rich publishers, poor authors

25.04.08
Joanna Trollope has left her publisher of many years, Bloomsbury. It's reported that Trollope felt that the firm has become so preoccupied with its great money-maker, JK Rowling, that it has neglected its bread and butter authors and lost its way... more

I never knew an Olympic event could be such fun

07.04.08
Possibly, I am the only person in Britain who was converted to supporting the Olympics by yesterday's torch relay triumph... more

Why comedian plus punchline equals guffaw

03.01.08
The Science Museum is to embark on the first scientific examination of what makes Londoners laugh.... more

It's poetry, but not as we know it

14.12.07
Wandering on, tie askew, flies agape, Tim Key delivers poems about, among other things, goats, romantic rejection and David Blunkett.... more

New play puts Blair on 'trial' over Iraq

08.01.07
A new play about the 2003 invasion of Iraq will be a 'balanced' look at the case for war, says the Tricycle Theatre's director Nicholas Kent.... 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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