Gary Gibbon
Cameron: I still care – Eton for all!
As David Cameron gives his keynote speech to the Conservative Party conference, has the prime minister acquired a new appetite for Tory compassion?
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Academies ‘covertly select’ privileged pupils
They were set up under the Blair government to improve underperforming schools. Now, more than a decade later, academy schools could fuel rather than improve social segregation, a new report warns.
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Q&A: Enquiring into inquiries
Hardly a month goes by before someone asks for another public inquiry. Channel 4 News asks: what’s the point?
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Ed M, Blairites and sofa hopping
“He was asked what in practical terms his promise to heal the north-south divide actually meant. He didn’t really know.”
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Gary Gibbon
Ed Miliband’s ‘one nation’ theme
Labour leader Ed Miliband says he has a “one nation Labour” background – haven’t we heard the phrase somewhere before?
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Jon Snow
The Xstrata factor
Globalisation has brought us all many benefits and not a few curses. Which will the biggest mining-commodities merger in history bring us?
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Cameron’s mea culpa over Magna Carta?
Appearing on David Letterman’s hit US talk show was always going to be risky. And David Cameron was felled by a British history quiz. But did he really not know what Magna Carta meant?
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Interview: Tony Blair on the London 2012 Games
Tony Blair is interviewed by Krishnan Guru-Murthy about the Olympic and Paralympic Games and how they have changed the way the UK is viewed.
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Jon Snow
Zenawi's death spells out Africa's conundrum
Ethiopia’s prime minister Meles Zenawi is dead. He’d been rumoured to have died long before this morning’s announcement on Ethiopian state television.
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Michael Crick
Death of Derek Scott
I regret to have to report the death of Derek Scott, the Eurosceptic economist who was a leading adviser to Labour in government. He had been suffering from stomach cancer for several months.
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Gary Gibbon
Romney gaffe machine in Olympic overdrive
There’s real concern amongst some Whitehall sources about what is seen as a lack of foreign policy awareness in the Romney team. Mitt Romney has said Russia is the US’s “number one geopolitical foe”.
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Osborne ‘should stop strategy job’
George Osborne needs to give up being the Tory strategy chief and concentrate on running the ailing economy, claims ex-chancellor Lord Lawson.
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Matt Frei
Don’t look to Washington for a lead on Syria
President Obama, pre-occupied with extricating the USA from his predecessor’s wars, has little stomach for military action in Syria.
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Gary Gibbon
Blair at Leveson – armed to the smiling white teeth
Mr Blair gave off the aura of a wise consultant giving pro-bono advice with Olympian detachment and objectivity. He’d waived his normal fee and was happy to help.
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LIVE BLOG: Tony Blair gives evidence at the Leveson inquiry
Former prime minister Tony Blair gives evidence to the Leveson inquiry into media ethics. Follow the live blog and add your voice.
