Michael Crick
Salmond’s Scottish sporting surge? Perhaps not
Is Alex Salmond hoping to ride a wave of patriotic fervour flowing for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games? If history tells us anything, he may be disappointed.
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#FreeRaif: vigils held against flogging of Saudi blogger
A candlelit vigil is held outside the Saudi Arabian embassy in London, against the public flogging of blogger, Raif Badawi, sentenced to 1,000 lashes, as activists criticise the UK’s response.
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Merkel could withdraw support for Britain’s EU membership
Angela Merkel is reported to have said she would rather Britain left the EU than see measures introduced which would undermine the principle of the free movement of labour.
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Women flounce, men ‘storm out’ – yeah, right
The Daily Mail says Baroness Warsi “flounced” out of government over Gaza. Sexist? Don’t be silly! From William the Conquerer to Putin, some of the most “macho” men have a grand history of flouncing.
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Gary Gibbon
Post election plots and operations
As the main party leaders lick their wounds after the local elections, should each of them be watching their backs?
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Gary Gibbon
Gordon Brown, the union, and spirals of silence
Gordon Brown had been intending to give the all-party Better Together campaign a wide berth. But then the narrowing of the polls happened. And in Scotland the former PM still has a lot of weight.
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Can Obama’s Axelrod help Labour? ‘Yes he can’
David Axelrod, the man who masterminded President Obama’s two election victories, will advise Labour ahead of the 2015 election. Can he do the same for Ed Miliband?
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Sanctions could ‘seriously hurt’ Russia – Hammond
Philip Hammond says Russia could face further sanctions as the country’s leaders hit back at the west for targeting individual citizens.
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Michael Crick
Ukip is the big by-election issue between now and May 2015
Labour is likely to win this week’s Wythenshawe by-election. But the big question is how well Ukip fares – while all the Lib Dems can expect is another lost deposit.
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Sri Lanka: UK will not join Commonwealth summit boycott
Prime Minister David Cameron will not boycott the Commonwealth meeting in Sri Lanka despite his Indian counterpart joining Canadian premier Stephen Harper in staying away, protesting rights abuses.
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Gary Gibbon
Why Miliband’s Labour reshuffle is no purge of the Blairites
With Jim Murphy retained and Tristram Hunt promoted, it’s hard to justify Tory Chairman Grant Shapps’s claim that today’s shadow cabinet reshuffle is a clear-out of the new Labour old guard.
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Michael Crick
Ed’s many challenges at the Labour conference
The tasks facing the Labour Party in Brighton this week are huge. Ed Miliband has to restore his authority after a disastrous summer, in which the Conservatives have gradually whittled Labour’s once-strong lead down to almost nothing.
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Syria timeline: how Britain opted out of military action
With David Cameron suffering a humiliating defeat in the Commons after the vote against military intervention in Syria, Channel 4 News looks back at an extraordinary week in politics.
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Alex Thomson
Syria: ‘Forget proof – let’s bomb’
With Iraq, we had the “dodgy dossier”. But with Syria, we have something that does exist: chemical weapons. And the UK Foreign Secretary clearly believes we can now go to war without any dossier at all – dodgy or sound.
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EU referendum bill passes first parliament test
The Tory MP behind a bid to introduce an in-out EU referendum says that millions of Britons want a vote on the UKs membership of the EU, as the bill passes to second reading.
