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David Miliband says UK needs more time to shore up Afghan government The Afghan government could fall within weeks if Nato pulled out troops now, David Miliband warned today as he urged British opponents of the war to give the...
The televising of the Commons, begun 20 years ago, was inevitable – but it has diminished the chamber Is it really 20 years since they fitted new, brighter lights above the chamber of the Commons , drove out those atmospheric,...
Maybe the Fifa president should take himself out of circulation for a while and have a damn good think First we were cross with Thierry Henry. This turned out to be an unsatisfying experience, like shouting tiny, pathetic...
By Mark Hughes, Michael McCarthy and Steve Connor Cumbria Constabulary via Getty Images Pc Bill Barker who was swept away and died during the Cumbrian floods. The extreme downpour, which swamped Cumbria with devastating floods,...
Both Romala Garai and Stephen Poliakoff join Andrew Marr this Sunday This Sunday Stephen Poliakoff, writer and director of new movie Glorious 39, and its star Romola Garai join Andrew Marr. They will be talking about the making...
On Monday we went to the National Theatre to see Alan Bennett's new play, The Habit of Art, about a fictional meeting between WH Auden and Benjamin Britten. It was the performance before press night, so there had been no...
Ben Elton should learn from Sir John Mortimer and stop the ranting and raging, says Gill Hornby. Ben Elton needs to gain a litle dignity Photo: PA When is a firebrand Leftie no longer a firebrand Leftie? Hearing Elton call the...
Tom Baldwin, Chief Reporter Conservative plans to grant schools freedom from central control risk bringing the creationist doctrines of a “Religious Right” into the classroom, the Government warned last night. Ed Balls, the...
"Never write about any matter that you do not well understand" – advice to us journalists once given by one of the very greatest, William Cobbett. In my many years as a newspaper columnist I have tried (perhaps not always...
You might think there are places you can eat in the world where diners on the next table won't turn out to be English. And you might think a Japanese restaurant, in Athens, might be among them. And you'd be wrong. The man...
