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Archive of articles from 2011
The week in politics: A year in review
A softer side to the Iron Lady?
Newly-released government documents have provided a somewhat softer view of Margaret Thatcher than previously accepted.
Top ten political gaffes of 2011
Here's our pick of the worst blunders of the last 12 months.
Miliband: Labour will reinvent its vision in 2012
Labour leader Ed Miliband offers a gloomy outlook in his new year's message:
Comment: Miliband must up his game in 2012
How long can Miliband snatch defeat from the jaw of victory before the party turns against him?
The danger of political predictions
Why do we keep on trusting pundits when they constantly get it wrong?
The perils of portraying political figures
Films like the brilliantly-acted The Iron Lady can be crucial to a politician's legacy.
Clegg: Lib Dem course is not easy, but right
Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister Nick Clegg delivers his new year's message in a video recording to party members:
Clegg braces Lib Dems for another tough year
The coalition's economic rescue mission is not over yet, the deputy prime minister has told Liberal Democrat party members in his new year's message.
Comment: It's not just the EU that needs rethinking
If the events of 2011 have demonstrated anything, it's the ineffectiveness of our transnational institutions.
The Week in Politics: 2011 dribbles to an end
MPs at Nazi parties, newspaper editors in memory-lapse shock and Lib Dems getting bolshy - it's the week in politics.
Burt: Companies mustn't dodge move against surcharges
Liberal Democrat MP Lorely Burt comments on the announcement that excessive surcharges on debit and credit card transactions will be banned:
Treasury: Surcharge move will help consumers
Financial secretary to the Treasury Mark Hoban explains the government's thinking on the Today programme after its announcement that excessive surcharges on debit and credit card transactions will be banned:
OFT: Regulator must deal with surcharges, too
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) sums up its recommendations to the government in its report from June 2011 on surcharges:
2011 in review: The year politics reached out
During the good times, politics happens on TV. This year, politics happened on the streets.
Top ten political scandals of 2011
The history books will only remember one scandal this year.
MPs: Clumsy ministers have undermined solar investment
Tim Yeo, chair of the environmental audit committee, gives his judgement on the government's cuts to solar energy tariffs:
Labour: More measured solar proposals needed from ministers
Shadow energy and climate change secretary Caroline Flint responds to the high court's ruling that cuts to solar tariff payments are legally flawed:
Friends of the Earth: Damaging solar changes should be stopped
Friends of the Earth executive director Andy Atkins comments after the government's high court defeat on solar feed-in tariffs:
Comment: The thuggery of Argentina's Falklands claim
We are protecting the people of the Falklands from a foreign government whose claim to the territory is at the intellectual level of a five-year-old child.
Reynolds: Clear changes needed
Fiona Reynolds, director-general of the National Trust, comments on the communities and local government committee report on local planning
Clarke: We want a simpler system
Greg Clark, decentralisation Minister, comments on the communities and local government committee report on local planning:
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