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- Darling’s Scots role fuels talk of comeback
Financial Times - Politics £ (Today) - If the former Labour chancellor succeeds in persuading Scotland to remain in the UK next year, his political authority will be considerable... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Cybernats ‘bullying’ business into silence
Financial Times - Politics £ (Today) - The former chancellor’s comments highlight the fierce debate in Scotland fuelled by the release of rival reports by the UK and Scottish governments... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Germany shows way on and off the pitch
Financial Times - Politics £ (Today) - The ascent of Germany, on and off the pitch, has not been lost on UK observers, with policymakers looking to Berlin for economic inspiration... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- The Germans are coming: 10 things we can learn
Faisal Islam on Economics (Today) - With two German football teams meeting in the Champions League final on Saturday, it is time to list the country's many achievements.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Direction to point finger of blame on tax
Financial Times - Politics £ (Today) - If companies are taxed inadequately or inappropriately, the blame can be laid at only one door – that of the legislators who design tax codes... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- The Eton Scholarship Question: this is how the British elite are trained to think
Laurie Penny - New Statesman (Today) - As one of the school’s scholarship exam questions shows, young boys are encouraged to think that humanity, compassion, even sense are secondary to winning. This is how we’ve ended up with politicians who will enact... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- The Holocaust can’t be a joke – least of all in Berlin
Philip Hensher (Today) - The Monument to the Murdered Jews of Europe is a remarkable presence at the very centre of the new Berlin. It was designed by the American architect Peter Eisenman, with some initial input from the... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- ONLINE ONLY: Thoughts from a Hospital Bed
Standpoint Magazine (Today) - Author:Lincoln Allison read more... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- LS Lowry and his legacy: The matchstick man is back in vogue at last as Tate Britain showcases first retrospective of Manchester’s controversial painter
Adrian Hamilton (Today) - What is the problem with the painter LS Lowry? To the public there is none at all. Well recognised in his lifetime, the Royal Academy retrospective a few months after his death in 1976, aged... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Andy McSmith's Diary: The Professor’s backing Bayern Munich to beat Borussia Dortmund (‘They’ll win 3-1,’ he says)
Independent Newspaper - Politics (Today) - Bayern or Borussia? It’s time to take sides. Surely Gisela Stuart, the Bavaria-born Labour MP, can offer expert guidance on which team the neutrals should support in the all-German Champions League Final clash at Wembley.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- “The Continuity of the State”
John Rentoul Blog (Today) - One more excerpt is worth noting from the interviews with former cabinet secretaries that have been posted on the new 10 Downing Street/Mile End Group website.Lord Armstrong, Cabinet Secretary 1979-87 (pictured, centre, in No 10... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Not just a bunch of 'swivel-eyed' idiots: The true Tories who want a new direction
Independent Newspaper - Politics (Today) - There are Tory heartlands and there is Shefford, a small town in the middle of Bedfordshire, in the middle of England, at the centre of one of the safest Conservative seats on the electoral map.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Tory minister will be left holding the baby – but don’t tell Vince Cable
Independent Newspaper - Politics (Today) - While legislation to encourage fathers to take a bigger share in the care of very young children is being prepared, the youngest Tory minister in the relevant department is going to practise what the government... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Homeless in London? Here's a train ticket for Birmingham
The Guardian - Politics (Today) - The plight of a mother and daughter forced to live in a hotel room 127 miles from their former home in the capitalWhen Aisha was evicted from her flat in East Ham, east London, on... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Pressure grows on Government to outlaw ‘zero hours’ contracts as it is revealed Parliament uses them too
Andrew Grice (Today) - The Government is under pressure to outlaw “zero hours” contracts in which workers are put on standby without a guaranteed minimum amount of work or pay. ... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Legal aid cuts: what price justice? | Zoe Williams
The Guardian - Politics (Today) - Chris Grayling wants to strip £220m from the legal aid bill by denying defendants a choice of representation. Do we really want to put our legal system in the hands of the lowest bidder?In Sheffield... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- 'Phones for all pupils' to close the digital gap
Daily Telegraph - Politics (Today) - A council is considering giving children smartphones when they get to school to end the "digital divide" between rich and poor pupils. ... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- The fate of Sally Bercow suggests that it's all to easy to side with the baying mob
Daily Telegraph - Politics (Today) - The ill-judged clamour over Lord McAlpine swept many of us to a false conclusion, says Graeme Archer ... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- BBC sorry for IRA gaffe on Question Time
The Guardian - Politics (Today) - Broadcaster apologises for 'insensitive' production error that saw Stormont minister labelled as member of Sinn Féin/IRAThe BBC has apologised for a Question Time production gaffe that saw a Stormont minister labelled as a member of... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Simon Hoggart's week: TV guilt and swanupmanship at Vintners' dinner
Simon Hoggart (Today) - The shame of not having seen The Wire or Game of Thrones is soothed by an anniversary dinner for the Vintners' Company✒ Do other readers suffer from TV guilt? I have seen only three episodes... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- “The Continuity of the State”
Eagle Eye Blog - The Independent (Today) - One more excerpt is worth noting from the interviews with former cabinet secretaries that have been posted on the new 10 Downing Street/Mile End Group website.Lord Armstrong, Cabinet Secretary 1979-87 (pictured, centre, in No 10... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Dave must move against the Tory dark forces
Matthew Parris £ (Today) - Eccentric, you may think, to bang on about something that isn’t even in the news. Surely the moment to write...... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- The parable of the Archdeacon and his nifties
Giles Coren £ (Today) - Short of money? Need £50 now, up front, no questions asked? I know a man who can help: the Venerable...... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Universal credit in danger of failing, official Whitehall review says
The Guardian - Politics (Today) - Major Projects Authority's performance report on 170 most expensive projects gives flagship scheme same 'amber-red' status as Crossrail and HS2The first official government admission that Iain Duncan Smith's flagship plans to remake the welfare state... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Andrew Grice: It was the right speech for David Cameron. It came from Nick Clegg
Independent Newspaper - Politics (Today) - After two weeks of chaotic government, the politician said: “It's time to get back to governing; providing the leadership and focus the people of Britain deserve in these difficult times… Our priorities must be people's... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›


