Class and politics
Britain's budget
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Our Bagehot columnist surveys the fallout from Alistair Darling’s budget, and finds it a fittingly bathetic end to Labour’s time in office
The sale of the Independent
British Airways and its striking crews
Israel and Britain
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Britain throws out an Israeli diplomat as the row about the assassination of a Hamas official rumbles on
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Charlemagne
There's no one like Gordon BrownHas the British prime minister handed his possible successor an almighty headache?
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Manchester's big ideas
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Election campaigning
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Skills for the future
The plot so farAre Britain’s new jobs cutting-edge and wealth-creating? Not on your nellie
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University finances
The posh, the poor and the pushedCuts all round, but elite universities fare better than middling ones
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Labour and the unions
Unite's kingdomA strike reminds voters that Labour, too, is vulnerable over party funding
Campaigners against a third runway at Heathrow airport are celebrating after a judge ruled that the Government must review the economic and environmental impacts of its plans.
Rupert Murdoch's Times and Sunday Times newspapers have announced that they will start charging for access to their websites from June.
Camelot, the firm that runs Britain's National Lottery, has been sold to a Canadian teachers' pension fund for £389m
Who cares?
The willingness of ex-ministers to lobby their former colleagues should be a bigger story than it is. There are several reasons why it hasn't caught fire. More»
The expense-cutting myth
Expenses, like wages, appear to be sticky, even in a downturn More»
Citius, Altius, Fortius?
After the party's over, the Olympics often leaves its host cities with a big bill, lots of monumental, under-used buildings and a lingering sense of urban desolation. Will London be any different? (Prospect) More»
A century's worth of arresting images
Our sister site reviews "A Positive View", a photographic retrospective of the 20th century on display at Somerset House
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This budget had the feel of having adopted that old strategem of retreating armies, which is to drop many low value baubles in the path of their pursuers, hoping they will be distracted and slowed up by them. More»
"Israel feels resentful towards Britain over its failure to legislate against the possibility that visiting Israeli officials could be arrested on war-crimes charges." If Israelis have committed war crimes, why should they not be arrested? More»
Instead of dismantling the FSA the Tories should revise its role from "light touch" regulation to more stringent regulation. Tearing down the whole institution and building a new one from scratch is not the most efficient way of doing this. More»
Universities have only enjoyed a "funding boom" by comparison with the subsistence payments which they had to survive on since Thatcher's savaging of universities in the 1980's. It wasn't enough to make up the lost ground. More»
When will Britons stop emulating Humpty Dumpty? They have every right not to like the EU and want out. They have every right to prefer being in the EU. What is tiresome is for practically all of them fence-sit - neither in nor out. More»
Too little too late for this election. It will be interesting to see if talk in mainstream media of what the main parties are up to online will generate more interest in what they are saying there. More»