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NHS dentists accused of unnecessary check-ups

Dentists are calling patients back for routine appointments far sooner than they need to, in an effort to maximise profits, according to the Government's chief dental officer. NHS dentists earn significantly more since new...

Gordon Brown and the banking crisis: remember the Falklands

I hope George Osborne was watching Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling's Downing Street press conference this morning. In complaining that Brown ought to be blamed for his part in the global financial crisis, the shadow...

Andy Burnham libraries plan: In defence of silence

And now Andy Burnham wants to invade them with all the twittering of the world outside, in spite of the protestations of what are now termed "traditionalists". I'm sorry, but if valuing the deep thought that is done best in...

Financial crisis Union tell Gordon Brown nationalised banks cannot repossess homes

Gordon Brown has been told by the Labour party's biggest donor, the Unite union, that customers of nationalised banks who default on mortgage payments should not have their homes repossessed. By Christopher Hope, Home Affairs...

Government defends its progress on diplomas

Schools secretary and schools minister reveal plans to develop the new qualifications and reject claims that the academies programme will lose momentum Only 12,000 pupils started the government's flagship diploma qualification...

Race champ Priaulx receives MBE

Andy Priaulx said it was a day he would never forget Guernsey's reigning World Touring Car champion Andy Priaulx has received his MBE from the Queen at Buckingham Palace in London. Mr Priaulx received his award for his work...

Irresponsibility ushers in the age of control

4 hrs ago

Tony Blair had his wars; Gordon Brown has been gifted a global financial crisis. Mr Blair’s vocation was to travel the world selling the cause of liberal interventionism. Mr Brown has found his métier in writing plans to save...

Nationalise to save the free market

3 hrs ago

Gordon Brown came to save capitalism, not to bury it. Paying £37bn to part-nationalise some of the commanding heights of the economy may not be many people’s idea of what free marketeering governments do, but the prime minister...

The banks' need for speed will have consequences

3 hrs ago

British bankers met the chancellor of the exchequer at the Treasury. They wore: a sheepish grin. He wore: a terrible frown. They said to him: Hello, Darling, we need more capital. He said to them: if you want capital, we want...

Terrorism and security: government forced to drop 42 days plan

Procession of MPs in the central lobby of the House of Lords, during the state opening of parliament. Photograph: Martin Argles Gordon Brown tonight abandoned his parliamentary battle to allow police to detain terror suspects...