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Home Secretary forced into 'humiliating retreat' over detention plans

By Ben Russell, home affairs correspondent Plans to hold terror suspects for up to 42 days without charge were dramatically abandoned last night after the proposals were overwhelmingly defeated in the House of Lords. She...

42-day detention plans pulled after Lords vote

By Ben Russell, home affairs correspondent Plans to hold terror suspects for up to 42 days without charge were dramatically dropped last night after Labour faced one of its biggest defeats in the Lords since 1997. Ministers...

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TJUBA TEN (THE WET SEASON) AND OTHER EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHIES WITH BEN RUSSELL Tjba Tn (The Wet Season) is an experimental ethnography recorded in the jungle village of Bendekondre, Suriname at the start of 2007. Composed of...

"Business as usual" with rural lending: bank

Updated at 11:07am on 10 October 2008 Specialist rural bank Rabobank says its approach to farm lending is "business as usual" despite volatility in international finance and commodity markets. While the domestic economy is...

Rabobank reinforces commitment to agriculture

Leading rural lender Rabobank says farmers and agribusinesses in New Zealand can be assured that it is business as usual from the bank’s perspective in the farm finance market, despite current global volatility in both...

MPs demand free vote on child smacking ban

By Ben Russell, home affairs correspondent A new attempt to ban smacking will be launched tomorrow by a cross-party group of MPs, as more than 100 Labour backbenchers demand a free vote on the issue. MPs, led by Kevin Barron,...

Blair's architect of school reform is moved by PM

By Richard Garner and Ben Russell The architect of the Government's school reform programme has lost his job as Education minister as part of Gordon Brown's reshuffle. Lord Adonis, renowned as the Blairite champion of academy...

The £2trillion question

By Ben Russell, political correspondent, and Tony Paterson in Berlin Gordon Brown is under intense pressure to guarantee all savings held in British bank accounts after Germany became the third European country to make the...

The £2trillion question for British economy

By Ben Russell, political correspondent, and Tony Paterson in Berlin Gordon Brown is under intense pressure to guarantee all savings in British bank accounts after Germany and Denmark became the latest European countries to...

Boris knifes police chief

Blair forced to quit in dramatic meeting with Mayor, provoking fury over politicisation of policing in Britain By Nigel Morris, Mark Hughes and Ben Russell Britain's most senior policeman was forced out of office by a...

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