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Darling sucked into allowance row

By politics.co.uk staff The chancellor has become the latest front bench MP to be sucked into the row over second home allowances. He follows several of his colleagues, including Geoff Hoon, transport secretary, Jacqui Smith, home secretary, and Tony McNulty, employment minister, who are all embroiled in controversy over their use of taxpayer money. But… Read more »

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Feature: Olympic timeline

By Laura Miller Pierre de Coubertin, a young French aristocrat, now known as ‘le Rénovateur’, revived the modern Olympic Games in 1894. Born in 1863, some believe Coubertin attributed the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 not to its military skills, but rather to the French soldiers’ lack of vigour. He decided… Read more »