Friday, January 1, 2010

Politics Brown promises to beef up UK airport security , UK thought Reagan would be a lazy president,





PM orders review after 'wake-up call' of failed Christmas Day airline attack, and plans meeting on Yemen radicalisation

* Double life of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

* War, terrorism, football and an Oscar for aliens

* Yemen the front line in conflict for US

* Air passenger with chemicals held last month

Straw: police like to be indoors with paperwork

The Justice Secretary provokes fury after claiming some officers use bureaucracy as excuse for not walking beat
Tories defy Cameron with plot to ditch Bercow

Tory leader has been warned his backbenchers will try to oust Bercow immediately after the general election
Edward Heath in 1974
Heath's little secret

Documents show PM discussed IMF loan during 1974 economic crisis
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Red tape 'driving teachers out of schools'

Tories claim millions of pounds are wasted on training teachers who later leave the profession because of bureaucracy
Politicians go without New Year's honours

After year of scandal none of the 121 MPs stepping down next year are mentioned in list while Status Quo honoured
Gummer quits Commons to lead climate body

Former Conservative minister says industrial countries have grown rich on pollution and owe a debt to the rest of the world
Half of new armoured vehicles out of service

The Army’s Mastiff and Ridgeback armoured patrol vehicles appear to be unreliable, according to figures obtained by Lib Dems
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Bitterness of old year spills over into new

Britain’s assertion that it has ‘no evidence’ that the hostage Peter Moore was held for a time in Iran cut no ice in Tehran
Cameron can learn from Thatcher in 1979

The new Conservative Government agonised over cutting public spending. How it did so provides some clear lessons for today
‘A cheeky, bumptious, clever boy.’ Not much change then

Alex Salmond’s biographer David Torrance considers the making of the man who became Scotland’s Nationalist First Minister
Bruised and battered, but Salmond will bounce back

Celebrating his 55th birthday today, Alex Salmond may reflect on one auld acquaintance gladly forgot — the year 2009
UK thought Reagan would be a lazy president

Archive papers reveal British diplomats’ verdict on Republican candidate in the early days of US election campaign
Benn wanted BBC to take over The Times

Energy Minister feared that the newspaper would not survive year-long strike that had stopped its publication
Thatcher preferred 'whites' over Vietnamese

Former Prime Minister tried to block 'boat people', preferring white immigrants from Rhodesia or Poland, secret papers reveal
Britain rethinks strategy on China

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office appears to have considerably overestimated its leverage with the emerging superpower
Brown insists recession has ended

Gordon Brown to launch fresh attack on the 'privileged few' while insisting he will protect those on middle incomes
How Britain tactfully told the Shah to keep out

National Archive papers show the extraordinary efforts made to avoid upsetting the new regime in Iran
MP stands down due to mental illness

Iris Robinson, wife of Northern Ireland’s First Minister, suggested homosexuals could be 'turned around' with help
Mandelson: how to deal with your 'boomerang kids'

Lord Mandelson, who has bounced back to the Cabinet three times, gives his advice about children moving back to the family home
From rattling tins to a fundraising behemoth

The explosion in NHS giving can be traced to Great Ormond Street’s Wishing Well Appeal in 1988, which raised £56 million
Ministers ‘to control’ NHS charity cash

Millions of pounds of charity donations to hospitals will be 'nationalised' — making it easier to cut budgets, critics say
Donations could become part of NHS budget

A change in accounting rules would effectively 'nationalise' public donations and fundraising, says the Charity Commission
British Army ‘is becoming top heavy’

Figures show the number of generals and brigadiers in a shrinking Army has risen since Labour came to power in 1997
Plan to shut MPs' public-funded websites axed

A Commons commission agrees to continue a controversial £10,000-a-year grant criticised as 'a gigantic waste of money'
PM expected to avoid by-election after MP's death

David Taylor, the North West Leicestershire MP, died after having a heart attack while on a Boxing Day walk with family
Brown’s untimely sale cost UK billions

Prime Minister sold the UK's gold when its price had reached rock-bottom - that sale today would have raised an extra $10bn
We won’t fight a class war, says Balls

The Schools Secretary said Labour must fight the general election as the party defending low and middle-income families

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