Ken vs Boris: my verdict
After interviewing both mayoral contenders in one day, I found Ken candid and Boris canny.
Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”
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3am eternal
Insomnia is a secret life, whose lonely, wakeful hours reveal a different version of reality. The poet David Harsent describes his experience of a world in which nothing is quite as it seems.
Lucky Dave
In crisis after crisis, the Prime Minister’s breezy confidence has kept him insulated from public scorn. But as policy failures mount, how much longer can he keep getting away with it?
Low rise and shallow fall
In the second of his English Journeys, Edward Platt visits the Essex hinterland where he was born, and discovers that there’s more to this county than stereotypical manual workers and brash, self-made millionaires.
Isn't it time we backed Bahrain's revolution?
As the first anniversary of the uprising approaches, it is time for the west to reassess its support for the regime.
Budget 2012: 20 minutes in, 1-0 Team Clegg
The Lib Dems are right to identify higher rate pension tax relief as ripe for review.
Sarkozy sets out his stall
The French president will tack right to head off the threat of Marine Le Pen.
David Miliband's approach won't save Labour
The old party is dead but its successor is yet to be born.
VIDEO: Republican's heartfelt plea on gay marriage goes viral
Representative Maureen Walsh gets emotional as she tells the House floor it is "cruel" to deny the right to love.
When Ron Paul met Piers Morgan
“Once you become a Ron Paul supporter you remain a Ron Paul supporter.”
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Huhne charged: the full statement from the CPS
Energy Secretary and his former wife Vicky Pryce charged with perverting the course of justice.
Full transcript | Ed Miliband | Speech on banking | London | 3 February 2012
"We need what you might call 'one nation banking'. We need banks that serve the real economy."
Full transcript | Ed Miliband | Speech on Scotland | Glasgow | 30 January 2012
"Let's confront the real divide in Britain. Not between Scotland and the rest of the UK -- between the haves and the have-nots."
Full transcript | Nick Clegg | Speech on tax cuts | Resolution Foundation, London | 26 January 2012
"This is about fairness in the middle. More money in the pockets of the people who need it."
By hugging Clegg close, Cameron might end up suffocating him
The Tories are trying to smother in advance any talk of Lib Dem collaboration with Labour.
Israel can be Jewish and democratic
A response to Ben White.
Lansley fights another day as Cameron backs NHS reform
The PM moves to squash speculation about the Health Secretary's future as the Lords prepare to debate the bill.
Boy George v cockney rebel
Rachel Reeves has caught the ear of "Sir" George Osborne
The value of a quiet voice
For so long the poor relation of English letters, the short story finally came of age in the fiction of V S Pritchett.
The Books Interview: Jodi Kantor
The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens
From our own correspondent
The Detour
Stealth education
The Revelations
Losing my religion
Bideford Town Council hasn't a prayer
The High Court has ruled that local councils can't have prayers on the agenda.
Your Democracy
Everything you want to know about your MP, the Lords and the UK’s main political parties. Plus, browse debates from 1803 to the present day.
"Eat the Data": three words that spell trouble for the coalition
The recession is only now becoming close and personal.
The verdict is in – the Chancellor’s austerity measures have failed
George Osborne has been hoisted by his own petard.
Britain on the brink of a double-dip recession
GDP fell by 0.2 per cent in the final quarter of 2011.
Romney’s vulture capitalism, the Balls backlash and more downgrades
US unemployment, the France downgrade, and why Labour has not reversed its policy.
3am eternal
Insomnia is a secret life, whose lonely, wakeful hours reveal a different version of reality. The poet David Harsent describes his experience of a world in which nothing is quite as it seems.
“If music can be art, why can’t food?”
Nathan Myhrvold was Stephen Hawking's researcher and Bill Gates's right-hand man at Microsoft. Now, he's written a £395 cookbook
A Dangerous Method (15)
Ryan Gilbey enjoys David Cronenberg’s Freudian sight gags.
In praise of John Fahey
He's my favourite guitarist and I want posters for my bedroom wall.
Boris vs Ken
A secret life
The Borgen model
Vivienne Westwood
Time to eat the data
Wins for Santorum
On George Carey
GOP race so far
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