Search results for ‘alternative vote’

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  • 6 Aug 2010

    Andy Burnham tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy that the Labour party should be “for a fairer spread of health, wealth and life chances”.

  • 4 Aug 2010

    David Miliband tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy “the good society is defined not just by a good government but by a strong community”.

  • 13 Jul 2010

    BP: If the cap fits…

    What might otherwise be regarded as an incredible feat of engineering has been achieved a mile under the ocean in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • 12 May 2010

    David Miliband declares his candidacy for the Labour leadership following the general election and Gordon Brown’s resignation.

  • 5 Apr 2010

    #Asktheleaders: Nick Clegg under scrutiny

    We’ve the first of three films looking at the main party leaders: a look at Nick Clegg. More blessings have been laid at his feet than for many a Liberal leader. But has he exploited them all? Party critics in the profile feel he hasn’t made the capital he might’ve done out of the expenses…

  • 24 Mar 2010

    On budget day, what can Luton and Hull teach us?

    I found the whole experience of being cast off into towns we never visit to talk to people we rarely meet somewhat like going on a foreign trip, writes Jon Snow.

  • 21 Jan 2010

    Just time for a short entry this evening. Had part planned a mini-rant about why on earth Jack Straw – the war-time Foreign Secretary – was only being allocated a paltry three hour session by the Inquiry, but now of course we know he’ll be coming back for another one in about a fortnight.

  • 23 Dec 2009

    In a full and frank interview President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow that Iran is “solid and united” and defended his right to develop nuclear power.

  • 30 Nov 2009

    We may be able to engineer solutions to the climate change problem – but can we engineer our societies to become “responsible consumers” demanding less from stretched resources?

  • 15 Jun 2009

    TEHRAN, IRAN – Whenever the riot police charge, waving their batons, with their shields to the fore, people run down the streets to escape. The black-clad riot squad move in phalanxes on motor-bikes, riding up on the pavements, swiping at passers-by. You don’t have to be a protestor to get hit.

  • 3 Jun 2009

    A spectacle we have never seen before

    A political crisis This is a political spectacle none of us has ever seen before. The government is reshuffling itself. Hazel Blears has just shuffled herself out of the Cabinet. She’d have been fired anyway over her second homery and non-payment of capital gains tax. Two other ministers, one of them another woman, are expected…