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Why Twitter went wild for stories from David Cameron’s university days.
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If the commercial media has its way the BBC will end up cash-strapped and shackled by regulation.
Relentless scorn.
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The government’s recent Green Paper spells our a vision of far smaller BBC. Coincidentally, this is just what Rupert Murdoch and his newspapers have campaigned for over decades.
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From both left and right come accusations that the BBC is biased. The truth is that the Beeb has links to all sides of politics – as you would expect.
Masters of tiki-taka.
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Highly inventive and offering myriad routes to goal, tiki taka is the kind of approach to innovation and wealth creation the UK must take.
Alan Newman
Best of times, worst of times: How leadership elections and an EU referendum are conspiring to leave party donations on the backburner just when it seems most possible to make a difference.
The ‘Selsdon man’ only managed to win one election.
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As British prime minister from 1970 to 1974, Heath took the UK into Europe.
Former prime minister, Edward Heath.
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The former PM is by far the biggest name to get caught up in the paedophile inquiry.
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Two parties. Two rivals. Two plans. One surprisingly similar outcome.
My pay’s bigger than your pay.
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Requiring companies to publish pay rates marks a tougher approach from the government - but it’s still not enough.
I hear what you’re saying.
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In his budget speech chancellor George Osborne pitched the Conservatives as social reformists – and the party has been involved in some key legislative changes.
Did Osborne provide a spark for productivity?
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A living wage grabs the headlines, but sluggish productivity is a harder nut to crack than that.
Protestors have their prayers answered?
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This was a bombshell of a budget, signalling direct interventions in the labour market that went far beyond what most observers were expecting.
Boxing clever? Osborne delivers.
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July 8, 2015
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Instant reaction from academics as George Osborne delivers his post-election budget.
Hard hat area. Osborne will struggle to sell his version of growth.
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An economic recovery underpinned by household debt is storing up problems for an ideological chancellor.
There when you need it most. But safety nets are under threat.
Mark Setchell
When welfare budgets get cut, layers of help and guidance are slowly stripped away from the most vulnerable.
Tough as old boots. Osborne prepares a hard budget for some.
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Commitments made at election time have a habit of tying the Chancellor’s hands come budget day.
Calm in a crisis.
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The upcoming emergency budget will offer the chancellor of exchequer, George Osborne, an opportunity to set up his stall as an unofficial candidate to the leadership of the Conservative Party. No other…
Any of you fine chaps fancy a job in broadcasting?
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Successive governments have criticised the BBC for being too impartial or not impartial enough.
The families of three women from Bradford thought to have joined IS.
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PM accuses some Muslims of ‘quietly condoning’ Islamic State ideology.