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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.
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3 Jun 05
PETER HETHERINGTON | A month after the election, you might have expected that the blurred policy picture
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27 May 05
PETER WILBY | Whenever I hear ministers talking about ‘the new localism’ and the importance of devolving power, I am reminded of St Augustine’s prayer: ‘Oh, Lord, make me good, but not just yet.’
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20 May 05
NIALL DICKSON | New Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has inherited an improving NHS in England.
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13 May 05
PETER RIDDELL | The clock is now ticking on Tony Blair’s tenure at Number 10
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6 May 05
ALAN LEAMAN | The civil service is always busy during an election campaign — 2005 has been no different.
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29 Apr 05
PHIL COLLINS | This general election campaign gets curiouser and curiouser. It is not, as the Sun> says, dull.
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22 Apr 05
IAN MACWHIRTER | It might be too early to call this election, but this has surely been the pivotal week in the campaign.
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4 Jun 04
From time to time, evidence of invisible people and invisible jobs appear on the government’s radar screen: when the Census didn’t make sense, when cockle- pickers died in Morecambe Bay....