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The new MPs' expenses system risks creating a "tragedy" by excluding poorer people from political life, a watchdog has warned.
Campaigners for voting reform argue that the referendum on 5 May will take place during a more optimistic period.
MPs tonight overwhelmingly backed a Commons motion to continue denying prisoners the right to vote in defiance of the European Court of Human Rights.
Civil liberties activists were readying themselves for a sea-change in British policy today, as the government published the protection of freedom bill.
To the horror of Egyptians and the world, President Hosni Mubarak – haggard and apparently disoriented – appeared on state television last night to refuse every demand of his opponents by staying in power for at least another five months.
So when the Arabs cry out for the very future that Obama outlined, we show them disrespect.
Blaming Islamists and multiculturalism for the backlash from US and British wars risks fuelling violence on the streets
More than 90 prominent Lib Dem councillors have criticised the scale and pace of government cuts.
I'VE GOT some bad news for you, you probably live in a high-crime area.

The odd couple

From: External news
10 Feb 2011
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Controversial comic Jim Davidson has been widely accused of being racist.
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