Politics

  • RELEVANCE (12 HRS)
    sort drop down

Drama reveals Queen's spats with Margaret Thatcher

THE prime minister tells the Queen she is buying a retirement home in the comfortable London suburb of Dulwich. The Queen then makes another cutting remark about politicians who “come and go”, drawing a vigorous riposte from...

powered by

Alan Sugar: I’ll fire myself – that’ll learn you

Stonily quiet at the back of a big, blank office on a weird, wind-whipped Essex trading estate, Sir Alan Sugar — ’skewze me, Lord Sugar — looks small, angry and alone. The businessman’s face, normally the rough beige of a...

powered by

Princess Margaret: recently unearthed letter sheds new light on decision not to marry

It was a famously doomed love story of a tragic princess who was forced to give up the love of her life in the name of duty. Roya Nikkhah, Arts Correspondent A newly discovered letter fromPrincess Princess reveals she was...

powered by

Women MPs revolt over childcare vouchers

Isabel Oakeshott and Jonathan Oliver GORDON BROWN is facing a revolt from Labour women over plans to axe a childcare tax break that benefits the middle classes. Senior backbenchers, including Patricia Hewitt, the former health...

powered by

Tory minders gag right-wing allies in the ECR

THE Tory party, struggling to contain embarrassing outbursts from its new partners on the east European right, has sent its media minders to control their public image. Michal Kaminski, the Polish MEP whose views are at the...

powered by

Russian deputy PM to visit India

NEW DELHI, November 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Sobyanin, who co-chairs the Russian-Indian commission on trade, scientific and cultural cooperation, will pay a visit to India on Sunday. The official...

powered by

David Cameron's big tent catches eye of Tony Benn and Claire Short

Jonathan Oliver and Maureen Paton TWO prominent leftwingers, former cabinet ministers Clare Short and Tony Benn, have spoken out in support of David Cameron’s Conservatives. Short, international development secretary for six...

powered by

Law change call for space flight

Virgin Galactic expects to start taking passengers in the next few years A change in the law is needed before Scotland can be considered as a launch site for commercial space flights, the head of Virgin Galactic has said. The...

powered by

Matt Damon: The private campaigner who became Hollywood's biggest star

A clutch of new films will cement Matt Damon's reputation as the hit of his generation. But that won't change this most reserved and politically committed of actors. Vanessa Thorpe reports Runners taking part in the annual...

powered by

When East met West: How Germany became one

AFrench writer once mused, "Germany? Ah yes ..." before adding, with all the catty wit at which his compatriots excel, "... I love Germany so much, that I'm delighted there are two of them." And in the immediate aftermath of a...

powered by