Lords Diary
Lord Razzall's seat on the board affords an insight to the effect of US anti-trust laws during a visit to New York
Lord Razzall

Lords Gallery

Andrew Evans

Commons Diary
Austin Mitchell's week is dominated by fish-- and anticipation of the historical handover of power within the Labour Party
Austin Mitchell

Commons Gallery

Daniel Forman

The Agenda

Week in Westminster
A key Blair Legacy is to bind Brown and Cameron to his agenda, says Richard Hall
Richard Hall

Cobbett's Corner

Chris Moncrieff

Blair's Decade
In the last of our series, Anthony Howard puts the Blair years in historical context and concludes that meaningful domestic achievements will be obscured by Iraq
Anthony Howard

So how was it for you?
What do MPs think is Tony Blair's most important legacy, and what do they believe are the key political challenges that lie ahead for his successor and the other part leaders? A new Dods/ICM poll for The House Magazine reveals all, writes Edward Davie
Edward Davie

Subcontracting the state
What if the government handed over essential services to any agency that could make them work? Gisela Stuart hears a radical agenda from a senior advisor in the Clinton administration
Gisela Stuart

England's blast of fresh air
Julie Morgan hails the success of the smoking ban in Wales and looks forward to it extending east
Julie Morgan

Pills, thrills and headaches
David Hockney predicts that an illiberal smoking ban will fuel illicit drug-taking and isolation
David Hockney

From pawn to grandmaster
Nick Hurd offers an insight into taking a Private Member's Bill throught the House of Commons
Nick Hurd

Counsellor to the Exchequer
Having been Gordon Brown’s PPS and then a Treasury minister for five years, John Healey can claim to know the mind of the next prime minister better than most
Edward Davie

Déjà vu in Darfur
Efforts to halt the bloodshed in Darfur are being hampered by superpower involvement, says Baroness Tonge
Baroness Tonge

Commitment not complacency
Fair trade and good governance are key to delivering Millennium Development Goals, says Gareth Thomas
Gareth Thomas

A watchdog that bites
An independent body should be established to scrutinise aid, says Andrew Mitchell
Andrew Mitchell

The predator’s purview
No sooner have Western countries ‘dropped the debt’ than a murky market in debt-trading has left developing countries vulnerable to exploitation, explains Lynne Featherstone
Lynne Featherstone

Eyeless in Gaza
Aid and development funding must reinforce the peace process in the Middle East, not undermine it says Malcolm Bruce
Malcolm Bruce

Firefight in a flood zone
Civil war has compounded the suffering of Sri Lanka after the 2004 tsunami, says Andrew Love
Andrew Love

Lives in the balance
The precarious Maldives archipelago is in the front line of climate change, reports Lord Naseby
Lord Naseby

Book Review
With his History of Modern Britain Andrew Marr has achieved a remarkable feat of quickfire historical analysis, says Damian Green
Damian Green

Electionwatch

Brimstone on the barricades
Lord Graham of Edmonton remembers Lord Ewing, a Scottish socialist of the old school whose campaigns for the rights of the worker and the unborn child were suffused with moral conviction
Lord Graham of Edmonton

Saluting Southall’s finest
Stephen Pound pays tribute to Piara Khabra, the trailblazing Sikh MP who built a reputation on the strength of his warm personality and dedication to the community
Stephen Pound