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Interview: Jacqui Oatley - the saviour of women's football?
The host of the BBC's new Women's Football Show talks about sexism, money and what it's like to be the first woman to commentate on Match of the Day.
Interview: Europe minister David Lidington
Interview: Professor Emeritus Eric Evans on Margaret Thatcher's legacy
Interview: BNP 'smasher' Margaret Hodge
Interview: Europe minister David Lidington
"It's never dull," Europe minister David Lidington says. As the Conservative in charge of a divisive and controversial area, the question of an EU referendum is never far away.
Interview: Professor Emeritus Eric Evans on Margaret Thatcher's legacy
Now the Iron Lady has finally been laid to rest such debates will fade away, making her legacy more and more the focus of historians. Evans, whose book Thatcher and Thatcherism has re-examined the impact of her collected policies through the 1970s to the current coalition, thinks that, like the French Revolution, it's too soon to really tell quite what effect Thatcherism will have on Britain.
Interview: BNP 'smasher' Margaret Hodge
Margaret Hodge has won plaudits for her work as parliament's penny-counter in chief - but it's her time fighting far-right extremism which underlies her work defending taxpayers' money.
Interview: Parliament's most liberated MP, Douglas Carswell
This is awkward for both of us. Radicals like Carswell are not accustomed to receiving accolades from the system.
Interview: Glenda Jackson
Politicians and actors have a noble calling of pursuing truth, but the realities of both career choices often involve getting one's hands a little grubby - as Glenda Jackson, parliament's only Oscar winner, knows all too well.
Interview: Tim Pat Coogan
Parallels between Ireland's troubled past and its current pain are closer than you might think.
Interview: Jason Biggs and Stephen Syllenhaal
The star and director of Grassroots talk to politics.co.uk about idealism, US politics and what David Cameron looks like when he goes for a curry.
Interview: Professor Roger Griffin
Getting inside the minds of Britain's extremists isn't a pleasant job. But someone's got to do it.
Interview: Nadine Dorries
Controversial Tory MP Nadine Dorries talks frankly about abortion, Cameron's leadership and her Christian faith.
Interview: Pensions minister Steve Webb
In the grand sweep of things pensions is under the radar at the moment in political terms. This is partly because of the approach of the coalition's pensions minister, Steve Webb, who spends his days pursuing agreement away from the headlines.
Interview: Football and politics
Clive Betts talks about the politics of the FA and the Premier League, with a little mumble about Roy Hodgson for good measure.
Interview: Ben Page
Getting inside voters' minds is not always a straightforward business, as Ben Page knows all too well.
Interview: Peter Facey and the long game of Lords reform
A century of failure on Lords reform isn't putting off Peter Facey, the director of campaigning group Unlock Democracy.
Interview: Ken Livingstone
politics.co.uk spends a morning with London mayoral hopeful Ken Livingstone on the campaign trail.
Interview: Boris Johnson
Boris takes on hairdressers, a crepe suzette and a college full of student voters as he seeks re-election to City Hall.
Interview: Eleanor Laing
The sex equality chair talks about breast feeding, multiculturalism and whether you're allowed to say 'calm down, dear'.
Interview: Mark Harper's Lords reform challenge
It is, perhaps, the hardest reform of them all. Can Mark Harper succeed where so many before him have failed?
Interview: John Street
politics.co.uk talks to John Street, author of Music and Politics, about Jimi Hendrix, Cool Britannia and why left-wingers have all the best songs.
Interview: Cerie Bullivant
Cerie Bullivant, an innocent man, discovered what living with a control order is actually like the hard way. He is now out to get them axed for good.
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