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22 April 2011

Happy Easter from The Staggers

We’ll be taking a short break over the holiday period.

By Staff Blogger

Just a quick post to let you know that The Staggers is taking a short break over the Easter weekend. Normal service will resume on Monday 25 April.

In the meantime, here are five posts worth revisiting from the past week:

1. The Tory plan to sabotage a Yes vote

Conservative MPs could block AV by delaying the coalition’s boundary changes, warns George Eaton.

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2. Doctors told to keep up “momentum” on NHS reform

The Department of Health is telling GPs to press on with reforms, despite the government’s “listening exercise”, notes Samira Shackle.

3. The royal wedding: there’s no escape

Sophie Elmhirst looks at the best and worst of the press on the weekend when Wills and Kate took over the media.

4. Dirtier than Watergate

Ryan Gallagher recalls the Reagan-era espionage system that managed to stay under the radar.

5. What Churchill really thought about first-past-the-post

George Eaton publishes the words that David Cameron and John Reid ignored.