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9 Dec 05
PETER HETHERINGTON | Here’s a seasonal teaser to throw into the annual round of Trivial Pursuit, or the other festive games that can enliven an otherwise monotonous family get-together.
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2 Dec 05
PETER RIDDELL | Tony Blair is not the only senior politician concerned about his legacy. Gordon Brown is too.
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24 Nov 05
PETER WILBY | I think I have begun to grasp what New Labour means by localism.
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18 Nov 05
ROBERT SHRIMSLEY | It is Enterprise Week. Don’t tell me your heart didn’t beat just a little faster on Monday morning knowing that fact.
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11 Nov 05
PHILIP JOHNSTON | It is ‘black hole’ time again.
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4 Nov 05
MELISSA BENN | It’s been called a dog’s breakfast, a return to Tory policies, a reinvention of the wheel.
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28 Oct 05
VICTORIA MACDONALD | As Professor Sir Liam Donaldson launched his book on the history of chief medical officers this week, he must have been reflecting on how difficult the job has become.
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21 Oct 05
DAVID LIPSEY | Are the health service reforms sinking into chaos?
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14 Oct 05
NIALL DICKSON | The NHS in England has embarked on the most radical and far-reaching reform programme in its history.
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7 Oct 05
PETER RIDDELL | Tighten your belts. Anyone working in the public sector should realise that the days of plenty — well, at least, not of starvation — are going to end in a couple of years.
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30 Sep 05
ALAN LEAMAN | Three weeks by the seaside with Britain’s politicians is enough to convince any dispassionate observer that our political parties are all in a sorry state.
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23 Sep 05
PETER WILBY | To my surprise, I felt a pang of sympathy for President George Bush over Hurricane Katrina.
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16 Sep 05
ROBERT SHRIMSLEY | Some time soon, Gordon Brown will start meeting with trade union leaders to secure their support for his leadership bid.
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9 Sep 05
JACKIE ASHLEY | Forget the Tory leadership race. It might be a gripping human drama, but what the Conservative Party really needs is a Big Idea.
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2 Sep 05
PHILIP JOHNSTON | The August silly season that follows a general election is often sillier than most, since newspapers’ appetite for reheated government policy announcements has been more than...
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19 Aug 05
PETER WILBY | Most coverage of the British Airways ‘wildcat strike’ concentrated on the plight of delayed holidaymakers and the anger of catering workers at Gate Gourmet whose dispute led to the...
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5 Aug 05
ANN ROSSITER | The big shake-up in primary care announced by the Department of Health last week is designed to be a further step towards a patient-led NHS.
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29 Jul 05
VICTORIA MACDONALD | Stockwell, in south London, is the sort of neighbourhood that most people drive through to get somewhere more exciting.
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22 Jul 05
PETER RIDDELL | The government’s domestic agenda has largely been on hold since the general election.
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15 Jul 05
TONY GRAYLING | Stephen Byers deserves praise not censure.
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8 Jul 05
HELEN DISNEY | It might have been overshadowed by the fuss surrounding Live 8 and the G8 summit, but another event last Friday was just as politically significant to the UK.
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1 Jul 05
ROBERT SHRIMSLEY | So you don’t know how much the government’s plans for a national identity card will cost in the end.
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24 Jun 05
MELISSA BENN | Few commented on the coincidence of timing.
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17 Jun 05
PHILIP JOHNSTON | Rarely has a piece of legislation generated so much debate, inspired such anxiety and raised so many concerns before it has been fully implemented than the Licensing Act 2003.
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10 Jun 05
TONY TRAVERS | Public services will never return to the ‘good old days’ that many traditional Labourites still, nostalgically, hope for.
9 Dec 05PETER HETHERINGTON | Here’s a seasonal teaser to throw into the annual round of Trivial Pursuit, or the other festive games that can enliven an otherwise monotonous family get-together.
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