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Spokesman counters complaints that Sir John Chilcot's Iraq war inquiry has so far been unchallengingMany people who have written about the Iraq inquiry have complained about the soft nature of the questioning and today Ken Macdonald joined the chorus,...
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With the likes of Berlusconi and Blair on the scene we already have all the political populism we can handleWhat do Silvio Berlusconi and The X Factor's Simon Cowell have in common? As of this morning, showbusiness and politics.No, no one's clocked Cowell...
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Stuck for gift ideas this festive season? Fear not, says Richard Partington, take inspiration from our parliamentariansOn the first day of Christmas, my MP bought on behalf of me ...If it worries you that there are only 14 shopping days left until...
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Dec 11th 4:12pm by Simon Jeffery, Sean Clarke
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Guardian readers have used our unique investigation tool to unearth details of MPs' expenses claims. Here's what you have discovered so farFor the release of the 2008-09 MPs' expenses, we have again brought out our unique claim investigation tool.It works...
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Name the track the mayor and the London assembly chair are bopping to – or just add a caption belowThe Arctic Monkeys probably didn't have Boris Johnson in mind when they penned I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor, but the Conservative London mayor...
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The spectacle of the bankers threatening to go off to Singapore tells us a lot. My God, have they ever visited Singapore?"This is the most anonymous cabinet I can remember," growled an old friend I bumped into on the Christmas geniality circuit...
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With the election coming, each gem in the latest list of expenses fiddles is being judged according to which party it may damage mostThe duck island and the moat were Tory claims, and so Tory embarrassments. But the latest classic in the genre – the...
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The release of the latest batch of information on MPs' expenses claims will remind voters of what they might have been starting to forgetI've spent the morning going through MPs' dustbins, shaking out the black bags by the garden gate and reading their...
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Dec 10th 3:20pm by Allegra Stratton, Tom Clark, Polly Toynbee, Nick Cohen, Simon Jenkins, Ben Green
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Welcome to a special edition of the Politics Weekly podcast, recorded in front of a live audience at the Guardian's headquarters in London.Allegra Stratton and Tom Clark are joined by Polly Toynbee, Simon Jenkins and Nick Cohen to reflect on the MPs'...
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• More than 50 MPs flipped second home, new expenses figures show• MPs' expenses: what we've learned so far8.53am: All our new findings are going on our "What we've learnt so far" file. Do take a look.8.47am: My colleague Polly Curtis has been having...
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Many of those who will endure pain over the next 12 months will wonder why they suffer while the banks received billionsEven before yesterday's "hair shirt" budget – which slashed public sector workers' pay, cut back child benefit and reduced dole...
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Capital expenditure is missing in the chancellors's spending riseIs the famously straightforward Alistair Darling guilty of a mild sleight of hand in the pre-budget report?In a little noticed section of his speech, the chancellor said current public...
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The chancellor's pre-budget report was solid and plausible in a political sense while containing little that might unsettle the marketsNo surprises then, not in this pre-budget report. Most of it seeped out well before the chancellor rose to speak. It's...
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The chancellor has announced a lot of pain under Labour but made it very difficult for Conservatives to deny that it would be a whole lot worse under themIf you think that was painful then it is nothing to what you would get under the Tories. That in a...
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The world's oldest independent scientific research organisation could go out of business. It shouldn'tAmid all our other troubles, did you notice that the recession has also helped place in jeopardy the Royal Institution. Founded in 1799 it is the world's...