Samira Shackle

Love on the left

• 14 February 2012

"Leon Trotsky thinks you're hotsky", and other Valentine's Day messages.

Video: a love song for Sarah Teather

• 14 February 2012
• 1 comment

Love is in the air with this Valentine's Day parliamentary serenade.

UK Politics

What Tony Blair and David Miliband have to say to the Labour Party

• 13 February 2012
• 27 comments

Blair tells the party to focus on the centre-ground and links with the City, echoing Miliband's NS essay.

North America

VIDEO: Republican's heartfelt plea on gay marriage goes viral

• 10 February 2012
• 36 comments

Representative Maureen Walsh gets emotional as she tells the House floor it is "cruel" to deny the right to love.

Health

ConservativeHome calls for health bill to be scrapped

• 10 February 2012
• 13 comments

Three Tory cabinet ministers "almost instructed" influential website to come out against NHS reform.

Law & Reform

Why we should not deport Abu Qatada and be damned

• 09 February 2012
• 29 comments

Ignoring the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights would set a dangerous precedent.

UK Politics

Lansley fights another day as Cameron backs NHS reform

• 08 February 2012
• 4 comments

The PM moves to squash speculation about the Health Secretary's future as the Lords prepare to debate the bill.

Economy

£10.9bn of unpaid tax written off by government? Who cares!

• 07 February 2012
• 6 comments

The Treasury does not adequately monitor the way it spends public money, according to MPs.

Broadcast

Alex Salmond, the BBC and the impartiality question

• 06 February 2012
• 45 comments

The SNP leader's rugby punditry was cancelled on grounds of impartiality. Is he right to raise concerns about political interference?

Broadcast

BBC defends decision to censor the word "Palestine"

• 02 February 2012
• 39 comments

The broadcaster claims that allowing the lyric "free Palestine" would have comprised impartiality.