Comment & Analysis

Prised open: Cameron set a trap for Miliband, but to limited effect.

PMQs sketch: Miliband and Cameron even after score-all draw 18 hours ago

22 Feb 2012

Prime minister's questions as it happens

PMQs as-it-happened

 Hilary Benn, shadow secretary for local government

Hilary Benn : Integration good but we need tolerance

Eric Pickles, secretary for communities

Eric Pickles: Mainstream Britain is Christian

Dr Patricia Kaszynska: 'The Liberal Democrat party, as the name suggests, has from its inception been ideologically torn.'

Comment: Cable's university coup threatens fairness

Protestors celebrate the end of President Mubarak in Cairo's Tahrir Square in a defining moment of the Arab Spring

Everything you need to know about the Arab Spring in 5 minutes

Sir Malcolm Rifkind is a former defence and foreign secretary and is chairman of parliament's intelligence and security committee.

Comment: Assad's brutality demands an effective embargo

21 Feb 2012

Gavin Shukar is a member of parliament and shadow water minister

Comment: Hosepipe bans and a cost of living crisis – it's time to talk about water

Richard Heller is an author and journalist

Comment: Greece deserves a better empire than the eurozone

The group which has approved Greece's second bailout lays out its reasoning for the new bailout agreement

Eurogroup: We need to reduce debt and restore competition to Greece

Darling: More bailout will be needed in the future

Darling: More bailout will be needed in the future

Osborne: Deal shows the eurozone capable of saving its currency

Osborne: Deal shows the eurozone capable of saving its currency

Rachel Reeves is shadow chief secretary to the Treasury

Rachel Reeves speech on 'balancing the books' in full

Ian Dunt: 'There's nothing less traditionally British than a traditional Brit.'

Comment: Eric Pickles' treacherous attack on British values

20 Feb 2012

Michelle Stanistreet is general secretary of the National Union of Journalists. Photo by Jess Hurd

Comment: Cutting executive salaries can save investigative journalism

Not a good day for Andrew Lansley

Video: Crowds mock Lansley as he enters Downing Street

 Ed Miliband: 'Reform must never become an end in itself.'

Ed Miliband NHS reform speech in full

 People's Pledge: Campaigners are hoping the vote will pile pressure on the government.

People's Pledge referendum diary: Week one

 Harriet Harman

Harriet Harman speech on UK music industry in full

 Dr Matthew Ashton: 'George Osborne is so wedded to 'Plan A' he couldn't change course if he wanted to'

Comment: The Tories can't keep on blaming Labour forever

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