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The wild escalation of top salaries goes across both sectors – and so must the solution: a high pay commission If ever there were a need for a high pay commission to put some rationality into out-of-control top pay scales, this...
The Queen's speech might have been just seven minutes long, but we devote a whole 21 minutes of this week's show to it. And not just what was in it but also what wasn't in it. David Cameron criticised Gordon Brown for not...
EU leaders meet in Brussels tonight, where they'll decide who'll be the first President of the European Council. Former Latvian president Vaira Vike-Freiberga - unlike most candidates - has formally declared an interest in...
Many of Thursday's papers are deeply unimpressed with the contents of this year's Queen's Speech. The Daily Mail says the "perfunctory" address "exposed Her Majesty's government as a washed up wreck". It was "a series of...
The Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA) has presented Stephen Fry with its 2009 award for services to Humanism and LGBT rights, in recognition of his long record of standing up both for LGBT rights and for wider...
The Mole: Is it electioneering? Yes. Would Cameron do anything different? Of course not FIRST POSTED NOVEMBER 18, 2009 The 2010 general election campaign just got started. Gordon Brown and his Cabinet used the Queen's Speech to...
The promise of Labour's under-fives programme has only ever been half-met. The next manifesto should go the distance The government looks set to revise its plan to abolish tax relief on childcare vouchers : it is "listening",...
During Rupert Murdoch's long affair with New Labour, there were a few people on the left who went on expressing their loathing for the old rogue. The Guardian's Polly Toynbee springs to mind. But, for more than a decade, the...
One Law for All campaign is organising a rally on Saturday 21 November 2009 at 1200pm in London’s Hyde Park. The rally aims to oppose religious laws in Britain and eslewhere. Simultaneous acts of solidarity and support for the...
Speculation on Gordon Brown's chances at the next general election has been ratcheted up after Labour's victory in the Glasgow North East by-election. The Times claims it has given the prime minister a respite and shows his...
