News
The Week
National and International news
Week in Westminster
First class into the buffers
As the anti-terrorism bill lurches from one end of Parliament to the other, Colin Brown tracks the undignified spectacle and wonders if Michael Howard has stumbled into an election trap
Colin Brown
Commons
Commons Gallery
Daniel Forman reports on the week’s key developments in the Commons
Daniel Forman
Ever-decreasing circles
From the backbenches to Bow, it’s a non-stop journey for Oona King
Oona King
Lords
Lords Gallery
Andrew Evans rounds up the week's developments in the House of Lords
Andrew Evans
Something fishy afoot
Lord McNally battles through food poisoning to keep a check on the latest progress of the anti-terrorism Bill
Lord McNally
Feature story
Upping the ante
Craig Hoy looks ahead to this week’s Budget and wonders whether Gordon Brown will be able to deliver the necessary boost to Labour’s re-election hopes
Craig Hoy with additional reporting by Sam Macrory
Interview
Tick fly on the body politic
Chairing the policy committee of the Make Poverty History campaign means being a professional nuisance, Matt Phillips tells Hugh Bayley
Hugh Bayley
Policy focus
Giving it more welly
Labour does understand the countryside, insists Alun Michael – recent years have seen dozens of initiatives and billions of pounds pumped into its regeneration
Alun Michael
Sustainable, not soft focus
Tony Blair has a rose-tinted view of the British countryside that neglects the basic tenets of sustainability, argues Jim Paice
Jim Paice
Funding the fatted calf
The rural poor need the direct help of devolved government, arguesAndrew George, not the dread hand of a national policy framework
Andrew George
The new CAP fits
The EU’s rural development policy will sweep away the unloved Common Agricultural Policy and encourage farmers to specialise, says Mariann Fischer Boel
Mariann Fischer
The new welfare manifesto
Now that foxes are being protected, Ian Cawsey argues that it is time to move on to the wider animal agenda
Ian Cawsey
Special report
Adding value to innovation
Innovation has long been a British trait; application and commercialisation less so. Lord Sainsbury hails British Science Week as a chance to put that right
Lord Sainsbury
Dialogue
Dialogue
Should London Be Awarded the Olympic Games?
Mike Gapes and Graham Stringer
Elections
Electionwatch
Election round-up
Other
Backtrack...
This week in history
Cobbett’sCorner
A round of recent events
Chris Moncrieff
