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Politics Weekly: Europe and the Tories, and the row over the government's drugs adviser

We tried to change the record, but we found it was stuck – Europe and the Tories, and MPs' expenses – the tunes at Westminster just don't change these days. But – we promise – Politics Weekly finds a fresh angle, by putting a new team round the ...

From TOM CLARK, ALLEGRA STRATTON, FRANCESCA PANETTA, JACKIE ASHLEY, CATHERINE BENNETT, ANNE PERKINS, Guardian Unlimited,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: UK Conservative Party,  David Cameron,  Alan Johnson

Politics Weekly: Arise President Blair?

Nick Cohen and Anne Perkins join Tom Clark and Allegra Stratton for a lively digest of the week in politics If the rumour mill has it right, then there is a fighting chance that we will soon be welcoming back Tony Blair as the overlord of the whole of ...

From MICHAEL WHITE, NICK COHEN, TOM CLARK, ALLEGRA STRATTON, ANNE PERKINS, Guardian Unlimited,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Nick Cohen,  Tony Blair,  Michael White,  Margaret Thatcher,  David Cameron

An outdated vision of women's work

Oh what a miserable read Cristina Odone's pamphlet is. Ex-deputy editor of the New Statesman, former editor of the Tablet, Odone is a successful journalist, a recent and prominent member of the commentariat about whom she is so rude, and here she is ...

From ANNE PERKINS, Comment Is Free,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Harriet Harman

Jamie Oliver, the Tories' secret weapon

Back in the early 1990s, football and New Labour went together in a matchless synergy. Football had just been reinvented, a brand redeemed from the violence and tragedy of the 1980s and transformed into a glittering entertainment of multi-million pound ...

From ANNE PERKINS, Comment Is Free,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Jamie Oliver,  UK Conservative Party,  Tony Blair,  Ozwald Boateng,  Kevin Keegan

Good conference, bad conference

Bad conference for ... The party failing to solve its central dilemma – how to turn around its fortunes. Brown did enough to stay put for a while, but failed to show signs that he gets why the electorate have turned against him. There was a revival of ...

From JACKIE ASHLEY, SEUMAS MILNE, ANNE PERKINS, Guardian Unlimited,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: David Miliband,  Tony Blair,  Rupert Murdoch,  Harriet Harman,  Tony Woodley

Equalities bill is in jeopardy, union warns

A general election next spring might jeopardise the government's equalities bill, activists warned today. They fear it might not be fully enacted before the election, leaving discrimination laws in a worse state than they are now. Bronwyn McKenna, the ...

From ANNE PERKINS, Guardian Unlimited,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Gordon Brown

Families are back in politics

Mums and dads have always been a problem, as Philip Larkin knew. But now they are a party political issue. Parenting and the family – inevitably, perhaps, once they had become a legitimate sphere of government policy – are now at the heart of what is ...

From ANNE PERKINS, Comment Is Free,  29 Sep 2009

Related Topics: UK Conservative Party,  Alan Johnson,  Philip Larkin,  Iain Duncan Smith

Ethics bypassed in drug trials

Medical progress must not involve dumping risk on to vulnerable people in developing countries This particular study, which is supported by big public health bodies, was looking for a vaccine to protect expressly against a strain of HIV found mainly in ...

From ANNE PERKINS, Guardian Unlimited,  24 Sep 2009

Related Topics: World Health Organization

Clijsters – super player or supermum?

Hurrah for Kim Clijsters. Just that: hurrah. She played a great game of tennis – a series of great games – and she won. Except of course it can't just be that, because Clijsters is not only a woman but she is a mother. And mothers only appear in sports ...

From ANNE PERKINS, Comment Is Free,  14 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Kim Clijsters,  Evonne Goolagong (tennis),  Paula Radcliffe,  Mary King

A reformed House of Lords? Not yet

Jack Straw is probably the greatest political survivor of his generation. A career that began as the first political special adviser in history in the mid-1970s has been capped with 12 years in cabinet. He has been home secretary, foreign secretary, ...

From ANNE PERKINS, Guardian Unlimited,  26 Aug 2009

Related Topics: House of Lords,  Jack Straw,  Gordon Brown,  Tony Blair,  UK Conservative Party

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