Interview: 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.

Interview: Mark Harper's Lords reform challenge

Interview: Ken Livingstone

Interview: Boris Johnson

Interview: Ken Livingstone

Ken on dirty campaigning, the outer boroughs and personality politics

politics.co.uk spends a morning with London mayoral hopeful Ken Livingstone on the campaign trail.

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Interview: Boris Johnson

Four more years for Boris Johnson?

Boris takes on hairdressers, a crepe suzette and a college full of student voters as he seeks re-election to City Hall.

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Interview: Eleanor Laing

Eleanor Laing: 'If I offend a bullying father who beats his daughter for her perfectly reasonable behaviour then I will offend him.'

The sex equality chair talks about breast feeding, multiculturalism and whether you're allowed to say 'calm down, dear'.

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Interview: Mark Harper's Lords reform challenge

Mark Harper, the Conservative minister for political and constitutional reform, is tasked with achieving the hardest reform of them all

It is, perhaps, the hardest reform of them all. Can Mark Harper succeed where so many before him have failed?

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Interview: John Street

Bruce Spingsteen performs to support Barack Obama in a still taken from Street's book, Music and Politics.

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.

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Interview: Cerie Bullivant

Cerie Bullivant breached his control order 47 times

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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Interview: Mustafa Akyol

Mustafa Akyol: 'What you think is a system totally alien to Islam actually isn't'

The writer and commentator talks about Islam, liberalism and what we should do with poppy burners.

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Interview: Institute for Government's Andrew Adonis

Andrew Adonis is director of the Institute for Government thinktank

The principle advocate of a Lib-Lab coalition has ended up helping the present government do its job better.

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Interview: BMA's Hamish Meldrum

Hamish Meldrum is chairman of council at the BMA

As the fight over NHS reform reaches its climax, the doctors' chief isn't in the mood for compromises.

Interview: Lord Speaker Baroness Hayman

Helene Heyman is Lord Speaker in the House of Lords

Change is coming to the Lords. While others are losing their heads, the prospect doesn't faze Helene Hayman.

Interview: Lord Speaker Baroness Hayman

Baroness Helene Hayman is Lord Speaker

Change is coming to the Lords. While others are losing their heads, the prospect doesn't faze Helene Hayman.

Interview: The independents' champion

This year's local elections offer fresh hope for independent campaigners

Brian Ahearne is flying the flag for this year's crop of independent candidates, as the 2011 local elections approach.

Interview: Tom Bletsoe

Tom Bletsoe is the youngest councillor in Britain.

Is this the new teenage kicks? politics.co.uk interviews the youngest councillor in the country.

Interview: Graham Allen's early intervention panacea

Graham Allen is Labour's MP for Nottingham North

Billions of pounds can be saved, at very little cost to the government: it's no wonder those in power are listening.

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.

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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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