Parliament's justice: MPs debate News International punishment

Parliament's justice: MPs will decide how to sanction the three News International men.

Parliament has undertaken an unprecedented debate in which MPs discussed how to pursue News International executives who misled the media committee.

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Still Britain's religion?

Patricia Routledge and Clive Swift in the 90s sitcome Keeping Up Appearances

Deputy PM says snobbery is "hobbling our economy"

Carry on cutting

Christine Lagarde gives the coalition's cuts a ringing endorsement

IMF backs UK's spending cuts 'credibility'

Lord Clegg?

Lord Clegg? The DPM won't rule it out.

Lib Dem leader refuses to rule out peerage

Comment & Analysis

Analysis: Labour's long and winding road to power

Gideon Skinner and James Stannard of Ipsos Mori

Ed Miliband's party still has some way to go to feel confident that they have completely regained the public's trust.

Peter Facey and the long game of Lords reform

Peter Facey is director of Unlock Democracy

A century of failure on Lords reform isn't putting off Peter Facey, the director of campaigning group Unlock Democracy.

Nick Clegg social mobility speech in full

Nick Clegg: 'We end up with entitlement at one end and exclusion at the other.'

Read Nick Clegg's speech on social mobility in full on politics.co.uk.

Comment: The coalition can no longer blame Labour for failure

Matthew Ashton: 'I've yet to hear anyone from the Conservative benches give a coherent explanation of what they'd have done particularly differently'

Osborne argues his failure is all Europe's fault - so surely the same should apply to Gordon Brown's government.

The week in review: Things go from bad to worse for the Tories

It's all gone Pete Tong

We are not quite at the point of Gordon-Brown-eating-his-own-fingers-off-in-the-Downing-Street-bunker, but it is visible from here.

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Households to pay more under coalition's energy plans

Draft energy bill will be deeply controversial in next 12 months

Consumers will have to pay even more for their energy to fund the switch to renewable energy, under legislation to be published later.

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Polish immigrants 'improve school scores'

Research shows some immigration flows can improve results across the board.

The influx of Polish immigrants after 2005 boosted the performance of native children in school, a new study has found.

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Britain 'too snobby', Clegg warns

Patricia Routledge and Clive Swift in the 90s sitcome Keeping Up Appearances

British snobbery is "hobbling our economy", Nick Clegg has claimed.

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Chillaxed Cameron broke off from Nato meeting to go sightseeing

Central Chicago, where Cameron went sightseeing

David Cameron broke off at the end of the Nato summit in Chicago to go sightseeing, Barack Obama has joked.

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Commons to debate News International misleading parliament

John Bercow announced the debate today

MPs will debate attempts by News International executives' to mislead parliament tomorrow, in a historic Commons session.

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Mandelson savages Yates of the Yard

Mandy: Yates tried to bully me

Peter Mandelson has used his appearance at the Leveson inquiry to attack former Met assistant commissioner John Yates, saying he considered taking him to court.

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PM: No 'chillaxing' from me

Like this, but more relaxed: Cameron denies 'chillaxing'

The prime minister has denied reports that he enjoys a leisurely lifestyle at Downing Street, saying he is "completely dedicated" to his job.

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Cameron lectures Greece, Clegg lectures Germany

Unrest has been heightened in Greece as austerity measures hit.

The British government has tried to bring the two sides of the eurozone debate together with separate messages to the Greek and German people on the back of a G8 meeting in the US.

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'My family had been destroyed': Tessa Jowell on life under phone-hacking

The phone-hacking scandal has shaken up the media, Westminster and Scotland Yard

Tessa Jowell has admitted spending years of her life checking nearby cars for members of the press as she explained the impact phone-hacking had on her private life.

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Next week at Leveson: The trial of Jeremy Hunt begins

Mr Hunts political career will hang on what happens at the Leveson inquiry over the next few weeks

The two men whose emails triggered a furious row over the conduct of Jeremy Hunt will appear at the Leveson inquiry next week.

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Podcast

politics.co.uk podcast: The failing coalition experiment

Two years have passed since Nick Clegg and David Cameron launched the coalition experiment

Neither politicians nor the public like the coalition. So what can be done to revive it? Can it survive three more years? Only if steps are taken quickly, experts are saying.

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Issue of the Month

Queen's Speech 2012

Queen's Speech 2012 focused on the economy, criminal justice and constitutional reform

The coalition has reloaded its legislative agenda with a Queen's Speech dominated by Lords reform.

Special event coverage

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Festival of Social Sciences: Celebrating the Social Sciences

Evidence-based policy should not be a radical concept. It needs to be celebrated.

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Festival of Social Sciences: 2 languages: 2 brains, 2 minds, 2 cultures?

As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, the Deafness Cognition And Language Research Centre (DCAL) hosted an event exploring the powerful benefits of bilingualism in spoken and sign languages, for hearing and deaf people alike - benefits that reach hearing and deaf people alike.

Opinion Former Events

Voice: Feeling stressed? Understand yourself? Now, move forward Conference

Application forms are now available for an exciting conference in Manchester. The fun-packed day will give you practical solutions and advice on managing stress and time to help you achieve a work/life balance.

BHA: The Marriage Debate - ‘This house would legalise same-sex marriage in England and Wales'

Two weeks before the Government’s consultation on same-sex marriage draws to a close, Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of the British Humanist Association is participating in a debate hosted by Catholic Voices on the motion, ‘This House Would Legalise Same-Sex Marriage’.

BSIA: Information Destruction Exhibition and Conference

This one-day event is targeted at professionals operating in the information destruction industry, and aims at keeping delegates updated on recent developments in their sector, providing an opportunity to network with fellow professionals, whilst offering access to an informative exhibition and a comprehensive conference programme.

ABI: The Future of Long-term Savings & Retirement Income - Automatic Enrolment and Beyond Conference

The Future of Long-term Savings & Retirement Income - Automatic Enrolment and Beyond Conference

Take the Gold Challenge for St Dunstan's

We provide lifelong support for blind and visually impaired ex-Service men and women. You can help give more blind heroes an independent future by taking the Gold Challenge

TACT: 2013 Virgin London Marathon

Join TACT at one of the greatest sporting events on the planet and help give a child in care a future to smile about.

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