When the Home Office comes for you at your daughter's wedding

Isabella Acevedo's punishment for embarrassing a government minister is to be dragged away from her daughter's wedding day

No ifs, no buts: Salmond must put his cards on the table

Scottish FM owes it to the Scottish people to lay out his Plan B

It is as if the prime minister went searching for signs of intellectual rigour and swiftly ejected it from government

Has Downing Street found someone who knows even less about prisons than his predecessor?

Podcast: ED Morel, a past master at the politics of dissent

This is the story of ED Morel, the great unknown politician of the last century
Podcast: Temperatures rising over 38 Degrees

Is the internet-mobilising 38 Degrees a spamming organisation – or at the front of an online revolution in democracy?

BFAWU: If David Cameron is attacking unions, we must be doing something right

Workers strike to avoid becoming a burden to the taxpayer. Why won't David Cameron support hard-working union members?
CML: New mortgage rules are to protect consumers

Michelle Vosper from Council of Mortgage Lenders discusses the changes to the UK mortgage rules.
BFAWU: Is a contract and a wage really too much to ask of fast food employers?

If fast food companies can afford to pay CEOs £8.45 million, they can pay their staff a living wage.
BFAWU: Osborne's economic recovery was never intended to benefit ordinary people

Let's be absolutely clear; this recovery isn't for us and it was never intended to benefit ordinary people.
BFAWU: Yes, there is an alternative to austerity

Working people are disillusioned but successes like the Wigan strike show what is possible.

Reshuffle: The inside story of how Hague's ego trumped the dignity of the Lords

Peers have been left flabbergasted by the decision to demote the leader of the Lords' Cabinet status
Gove smothers May with praise - while retreating from his extremism apology

Michael Gove fell over himself to praise Theresa May this morning - while subtly retreating from his apology over her handling of extremism.

How Britain profits from the attack on Gaza

The complex web of Israeli-British military contracts which silences our criticism of the attack on Gaza
When the Home Office comes for you at your daughter's wedding

Isabella Acevedo's punishment for embarrassing a government minister is to be dragged away from her daughter's wedding day
No ifs, no buts: Salmond must put his cards on the table

It's now clear there'll be no currency union. Salmond owes it to the Scottish people to lay out his Plan B

Comment: Cameron's weakness led to the shooting down of MH17

Putin has outplayed Cameron from the beginning. This is what happens when a Russian gangster confronts a spoiled Etonian.
Comment: Chris Grayling tried to undermine our democracy – and only the courts stopped him

It was judges - not parliament - who saved equality under the law from the justice secretary's assault

Poll roundup: 'Window-dressing' suspicions prevent Tory reshuffle boost

Suspicions of 'window-dressing' appear to be reinforcing the public's idea that nothing much will change.
How the government got into bed with debt collection agencies

The government is taking payment-by-results to a whole new level - by encouraging debt collection agencies to retrieve money in ways MPs fear could hit vulnerable debtors hard.

Week in Review: A government of tiny talents

It is as if the prime minister went searching for signs of intellectual rigour and swiftly ejected it from his government.
PMQs as-it-happened

All the twists and turns of this week's PMQs in our live blog

PMQs verdict: Tories prefer cheers to 'annihilation'

The Conservative backbenchers won PMQs this week
PMQs verdict: Cameron uses the law as a shield, but forgets to cover his legs

Cameron uses the law as a shield to avoid scrutiny, but he does so with little grace

Have boarding schools damaged politicians?

Everyone knows David Cameron and his Cabinet are posh. Yet few in Westminster will accept a psychotherapist's claim that their boarding school backgrounds have fundamentally crippled their ability to lead.
How the internet will destroy capitalism

Jeremy Rifkin explains how the creation of zero marginal cost is destroying capitalism and replacing it with something... nicer.

Review: Denis Healey sings at Stand Up For Labour

He occupies a place in Labour legend. He spoke at the 1945 Labour conference. In 2013 Denis Healey made his conference return - singing lewd songs at a stand-up event somewhere in a backstreet in Brighton.
Review: Propaganda and Power, British Library

As the British Library's new exhibition shows, when it comes to propaganda the ridiculous - and our own politics - are never far away.

Prison book ban

Authors and prison reform campaigners join forces to get Chris Grayling to think again on his ban on sending books to prisoners.
Britain's great energy debate

Can you tackle climate change without ruining our quality of life? Politics.co.uk takes an in-depth look at an issue with no easy solutions.

Podcast: ED Morel, a past master at the politics of dissent

This is the story of ED Morel, the great unknown politician of the last century