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Prize fact: markets are irrational...

14.10.11
City comment: I still find it breathtaking that the Nobel prize for economics this year could go to Thomas Sargent, a man who more than any other developed the intellectual framework of rational expectations and efficient markets... more

Charles Clarke: Bill Bratton is not the man to lead the Met

15.08.11
The Tories and the Mayor must end their dangerous meddling and put proper policing above civil liberties... more

Yes! That's the verdict at Standard AV debate as Ken Livingstone and Michael Howard clash on voting reform

07.04.11
Clash over voting reform sparked into life as hundreds of people gathered for the Evening Standard debate ... more

Ten London MPs 'at greater risk of defeat' in AV system

06.04.11
Ten seats in London would be more likely to change hands under the alternative vote system, research reveals ... more

The London Evening Standard Alternative Vote Debate

04.04.11
With a month to go before the nation decides, the Evening Standard's Alternative Vote debate this evening will crystalise the arguments... more

How voting reform has become a real war of words

01.04.11
Opponents of voting reform said a £6 million government-backed advertising campaign proves the 'alternative vote' is seven times more complicated than the traditional system ... more

Ken Livingstone pleads for voters to turn out in AV poll

30.03.11
Ken Livingstone urged Londoners today to seize a 'historic chance' to change Britain's voting system... more

I’ve seen the future of prison — and it works

16.12.10
You can’t help but think there has to be a better way than prison. Well, there just might be... more

Ken Clarke is out of step with his party and the country

13.12.10
The Justice Secretary’s liberal prisons policy at a time of social unrest may hasten his exit from the Cabinet... more

I told you so: Howard Flight's 'deeper cuts' come to pass

25.11.10
Sacked in 2005 as Tory party deputy chairman for advocating ‘deeper cuts’, the new Lord Flight tells Stephen Robinson how his fears about our finances, benefits culture and ‘bland’ MPs have been realised... more

There's a better way to break the cycle of crime

23.11.10
How a 16-year-old thief convinced one writer that the way to cut down reoffending was to keep him out of jail... more

Iain Duncan Smith is the man to give the poor back their work ethic

08.11.10
Iain Duncan Smith’s radical welfare proposals will introduce the chronic unemployed to the rhythm and routine of a job... more

Spy found in bag 'stabbed to death' days before leaving MI6 for GCHQ

25.08.10
British spy whose body was found in a sports bag in the bath of his London flat had been stabbed to death, it was claimed... more

David Cameron: Standard campaign for Dispossessed is stirring our conscience

22.07.10
David Cameron gives his full backing to the Evening Standard’s £1million Dispossessed Fund and declares it has 'stirred the conscience' of the capital... more

Ken Clarke rejects link between prison numbers and crime rates

14.07.10
Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke insisted that there was no direct link between rising prison numbers and falling crime rates... more

Youngest Chancellor in 100 years George Osborne faces tough task ahead

12.05.10
At the age of 38, George Osborne has become the youngest Chancellor of the Exchequer to take charge at the Treasury for more than a century... more

Tory manifesto: The blue book that speaks volumes

13.04.10
Commentary: At 28,045 words, today’s Conservative manifesto is wilfully dull looking - but open the 118 pages and it document that speaks volumes about how David Cameron’s party see themselves... more

Oh, it’s the Shane story at Lloyds...

05.11.09
On BBC news, Lloyds Banking Group’s in-house PR Shane O’Riordain says: “Lloyds is a strong, well-capitalised bank.” ... more

Ronnie Biggs and Lockerbie bomber release link is 'ridiculous'

11.09.09
Suggestions that the decision to free Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs was prompted by the impending release of the Lockerbie bomber have been dismissed as 'absurd and offensive'... more

Baby P chief: Ministers treated me like Jamie Bulger's killers

01.09.09
Sharon Shoesmith, the Haringey official sacked in wake of Baby P, claims she has been treated as badly by Ministers as James Bulger killers... more

Top Tory claimed £17,000 for gardening at Kent home

01.06.09
Former Tory leader Michael Howard became the latest Conservative to come under fire over their country homes today as it emerged the taxpayer paid for £17,000 of his gardening work... more

Rebels in the vote

01.05.09
The vote to scrap second home allowances for outer London MPs was opposed by 39 Members... more

Truth makes children tolerant, not gay

29.04.09
Imagine if, at the age of 11, your class at school had been sat down and told a few dry and rather uninteresting truths about homosexuality... more

Cashmere and influence at Brompton Bar and Grill

09.02.09
There's nothing familiar about the new-look Brompton Bar & Grill. Fading Frenchness has been replaced with a sleek, contemporary look.... more

The Speaker’s crucial errors

03.12.08
The statement by the Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, about the arrest of the Tory frontbencher, Damian Green last week, was not intended to turn into a full-blown debate... more

Did Cameron let the cat out of the bag?

10.10.08
Michael Howard’s call for the Financial Services Authority to investigate the source of Robert Peston’s story about confidential talks between banking chiefs, the Chancellor and Bank of England Governor Mervyn King that sparked a plunge in bank shares on Tuesday morning is interesting. ... more

Calls for probe to find the BBC 'mole in the City'

09.10.08
MPs have demanded a probe into whether City "dirty tricks" were behind the BBC's scoop on the Government's bank rescue plan.... more

Boris Johnson's CV

02.05.08
The life of Boris Johnson...... 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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