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Everyone blames Cameron for leading Europe’s disastrous austerity drive
The course of the failed EU budget negotiations have revealed David Cameron’s quasi-Thatcherite negotiating style, enjoyed by Ms Merkel but not by many others.
Rising costs, mega profits, price fixing… We must make energy companies more accountable
Bill hikes, “Libor-like” fixing of wholesale gas prices, huge profits… time to investigate the limitations of private utilities running our energy supplies.
Try as he may, Chris Grayling can’t make prison cuts without cutting prison numbers
Efforts by the coalition to reduce expenditure on prisons are fraught with problems, including, potentially, from the ever-reliable G4S.
Respect implicated in aggressive and slanderous Rotherham campaign leaflet
In the Rotherham by-election, the Respect Party and Yvonne Ridley have been implicated in a campaign leaflet that accuses Labour of racism.
Watch: Republican claims “spiritual weapons of our warfare” – exorcism – can cure homosexuality
Republican Bryan Fischer has claimed exorcism can be used as a “spiritual weapon” to cure homosexuality.
“We don’t need another dictator” – Egypt set for protests as triumphant Morsi tightens grip
Egypt is braced for mass rallies after President Mohamed Mursi, fresh from brokering the Gaza ceasefire, passed a decree giving himself sweeping new powers.
Join the fight to save lives and Save Lewisham hospital
Jos Bell explains why we must to save Lewisham Hospital from being a victim of the coaltion’s NHS shake-up.
Look Left – Gaza, coalition energy policy, and the upcoming Autumn Statement
Shamik Das looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
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Miller fails to explain post-Olympic school sport slump – or how it’ll be reversed
Culture secretary Maria Miller was questioned by MPs on the Olympic legacy today, specifically the decline in school sport participation.