Archive of April 2014

PMQs verdict: Cameron's relationship with Bercow hits a new low
An angry outburst and a cold reply: the Speaker and PM wash their laundry in public
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PMQs as-it-happened
All the action from today's PMQs
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The Week In Review: Ukip if you want to...
Positions for and against Ukip harden after the hard-right party releases the most explosive election poster of recent years.
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This Is Your Brain Online: The NYPD Twitter backlash
Authorities are starting to understand that engagement is a two-way street
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Revealed: The true state of refugee housing
Dirty and cold: The reality of life as a refugee in Britain
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WATCH: Prime minister's St George's Day message
The prime minister says England's national day "has been overlooked"
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This is your brain online: How Twitter could combat voter apathy
A dangerous mix of disengagement, austerity and anti-politics has gripped Europe. But Twitter could turn the tide.
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The Week in Review: What would Jesus do, Mr Cameron?
There's been little evidence this week of David Cameron's conversion to Christian morality.
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Immigrant stories: The British citizen who was stripped of her passport
Trapped in Zambia with her children: Another victim of a broken immigration system.
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Win tickets to see 1984 at the Playhouse Theatre
The 'definitive book of the 20th century' is re-examined in a radical new staging.
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Comment: Car pollution is the invisible killer politicians daren't talk about
From Inner London to rural Wales, our reliance on motor cars is silently throttling us.
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Comment: Brussels bureaucrats and Tory eurosceptics can work together to defeat plain packs
A rare chance for cooperation could see Tory eurosceptics and EU bureaucrats defeat plain cigarette packs
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The Week in Politics: A plague on all their Houses
You wouldn't think it possible – but this week the British body politic managed to make itself more unpopular than ever before.
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Comment: In Grayling's Britain only the very rich can afford justice
Why is Grayling trying to make it all but impossible for anyone except the very rich to take the government to court?
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This Is Your Brain Online: Did Farage really win the EU debates?
65,090 Tweets – over a thousand a minute – appeared about the debate, during the debate. So what did they say?
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What happens if you're imprisoned for a crime you didn't commit?
The punishment for maintaining your innocence in Chris Grayling's prison regime
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Comment: Women's rights are at risk from our complacency
Women's rights are on a backwards march in Europe
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Yvette Cooper immigration speech in full
Yvette Cooper's speech outlining Labour's approach to immigration - in full and unedited
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Comment: A state power grab against the rule of law
A vital mechanism for holding state power to account, judicial review is currently undergoing death by a thousand cuts.
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Comment: We've defeated the European snooping project
Years ago, New Labour and the Tories worked together in Europe to pass mass snooping laws. This is how we fought it off.
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Comment: Five ways to restore public trust in big business
Even the most aggressive businesses should recognise their responsibilities don't stop with the shareholder
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PMQs as-it-happened: After the resignation, the mauling
David Cameron faced the Commons chamber after Maria Miller's resignation. Catch up here
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Maria Miller's seven deadly errors: A Cabinet minister's case study in how to lose your job
For years Maria Miller's scornful attitude has combined with some terrible decision-making to leave her no choice this morning but to resign. Here's a breakdown of her seven biggest mistakes...
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Maria Miller resignation letter in full
The culture secretary's resignation letter - and the reply from the prime minister - in full and unedited
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50 shades of denial: MPs fail the Maria Miller test
Politicians are displaying an almost heroic stupidity in failing to realise the blinding obvious: the public simply doesn't trust them to judge their colleagues