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The Week
A round up of national and international news
Commons
My week: Austin Mitchell
Winter blues - Christmas break fails to lift the gloom
Austin Mitchell
Lords
My week: Lord Falkland
Racing certainties - Taking a gamble on a favourite Baron
Viscount Falkland
Asia crisis
Asia Crisis
The humanitarian disaster following the Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami has moved the global community and provoked a relief effort on an unprecedented scale. Representatives from some of the nations most affected, leaders of the relief effort and UK politicians discuss the scale of the disaster and the steps which can be made – at global and local levels – to help those most in need.
Asia Crisis
Hilary Benn, Alan Duncan, Tom Brake, Alex Salmond and Tony Baldry argue how the largest aid operation in history can most effectively be run
Year ahead
Economy is still good politics
Crises and criticisms have dogged Tony Blair’s second term, leaving a strong economic record as the government’s key election calling card, writes James Blitz
James Blitz
Parallel lines
Voter scepticism of public service promises will deepen as the battle cries of the main parties sound increasingly similar, writes Peter Riddell
Peter Riddell
The fear factor
Charles Clarke has inherited the biggest legislative programme of any cabinet minister but, says Alan Travis, he will have a job to convince voters of its merits
Alan Travis
In need of a fix?
With the prime minister set to call a general election a year before necessary, Lord Norton of Louth weighs up the arguments for fixed term parliaments
Lord Norton
Interview
Independent thinker
John Bercow talks to the Fabian Society’s Sunder Katwala
John Bercow
Opinion
Speaking out
Prague has paid homage to Hyde Park’s flagship for freedom of speech by installing its very own Speakers’ Corner. Denis MacShane reports
Denis MacShane
Georgia on my mind
Fredrick Hyde-Chambers on the example set by Georgia’s post-revolution democracy in fostering the creation of a sound business and parliament structure
Fredrick R Hyde-Chambers
Other
Cobbett’s Corner
Chris Moncrieff reports
Chris Moncrieff
Dialogue
from: Paul Flynn to Chris Bryant from: Chris Bryant to Paul Flynn subject: Decriminalisation of cannabis
Paul Flynn and Chris Bryant
Electionwatch
A round up of recent elections
Backtrack
This week in history..
