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Published 12 July 2007

We have the passport numbers, fingerprints and photos of more than 11,000 suspected terrorists on our database. But the UK does not check it

Ronald Noble, head of Interpol, accuses the British government of failing to check immigrants against a database of suspected terrorists

It will be like an honorary title and he won’t get involved in the day-to-day workings of the House of Lords

A “friend” of Peter Mandelson’s on speculation that he is on Tony Blair’s resignation honours list

If we can get the family right, we can fix our broken society

Dave Cameron announces a new Tory family policy

What we should be doing is supporting children. We shouldn’t be saying because of the decisions your parents have made, whether a spouse has left another, that children should lose out, and whatever Iain [Duncan Smith] says, that is the implication

The new social exclusion minister, Ed Miliband, on Tory proposals to reward marriage with tax breaks

Angry, let down and double-crossed by Alex Salmond’s empty words

How voters feel, according to Andy Kerr MSP, Labour’s shadow health minister in Scotland, on the SNP leader claiming salaries from both Westminster and Holyrood

I hope people don’t judge me too harshly. I married the son, not the father

Jane Felix-Browne, a 51-year-old grandmother and parish councillor from Cheshire, on her marriage to Omar Ossama Bin Laden, 27, son of Bin Laden

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