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Comment & Analysis
The Political Week Online: Pubs, protests, and giant penises
Nigel Farage on the nasty end of a protest in Scotland. If you want to know where giant penises come into this, you'll have to read it. Sorry.
Review: Propaganda and Power, British Library
As the British Library's new exhibition shows, when it comes to propaganda the ridiculous - and our own politics - are never far away.
Talking politics needs booze - and plenty of it
Let's face it: If you were forced into a building filled with as many politicians as the Palace of Westminster contains you'd probably need a drink or two to get by, too.
Lib Dem diary: Tory traumas have been hilarious
Watching the Conservatives relive the trauma of the late 1990s over Europe all week has been a bizarre and, quite frankly, hilarious experience.
Profile: EU referendum bill champion James Wharton
James Wharton, the Tory eurosceptic who will carry his party's hopes of an EU referendum in the Cameron-endorsed bill, has a surprisingly colourful early political career.
Podcast
Podcast: The perils of being Europe minister
We speak to Europe minister David Lidington about the trials and tribulations of life in one of the coalition's toughest jobs.
Podcast: The English question
Something is stirring at the heart of the United Kingdom. After centuries of contentment, are the English becoming restive for more political power?
Opinion Former Comment
CPAG: Child Poverty Act is under attack from all sides
The Child Poverty Act, and the targets to end child poverty by 2020 it enshrines, seem to be under attack from all sides. The latest sally comes in an article by IPPR Director Nick Pearce, headlined ‘Labour must drop its child poverty target and find another way’.
CPAG: Welfare myths are not based on fact - and people are starting to see it
Ministers turned on charities and faith groups this week to discredit concerns over their welfare reforms. They know they cannot sustain public support when welfare myths are simply not based in fact.
BFAWU: A Nail In The Coffin For Workfare?
Let us congratulate Cait Reilly for hopefully sounding the first death knell for 'Workfare'. The judgment of Miss Reilly’s appeal confirms what many, including Boycott Workfare and the BFAWU have been saying about this horrid scheme since its inception.
RSPCA: Compulsory Microchipping: a good start but what are we trying to solve?
Animal welfare groups gave a fairly universal welcome to the Government’s proposals on microchipping when they were announced on 6th February. Why?
Voice: Michael Gove's EBacc u-turn welcome news, but it calls into question his judgment
This is astonishing but welcome news. On Tuesday evening, Michael Gove was praising and promoting the EBacc in a speech to the Social Market Foundations. On Thursday morning, we learn that he will scrap the idea. This raises serious questions about his judgement and his future as Education Secretary.
Talking politics needs booze - and plenty of it
Let's face it: If you were forced into a building filled with as many politicians as the Palace of Westminster contains you'd probably need a drink or two to get by, too.
The irresistible rise of the Tory rebels
This week's row about the EU referendum is getting so convoluted it's starting to feel as if this is an aberration from the norm. It is not. Endemic rebelliousness on the Conservative backbenches is here to stay even if the Tories change their leader, experts have warned.
Ian Dunt
May is creating a hierarchy of murder
The home secretary's plan to punish cop-killers suggests some lives matter more than others.
Labour should call for an EU referendum on election day
Why should Labour wait until after the general election for the Conservative party to destroy itself?
Wonga and the payday lenders: The Hear hear podcast
Wonga and other payday lenders are the subject of this week's Hear hear podcast - the brainchild of political journalist Sean Dilley.
Comment
Comment: Don't blame politics for Britain's Eurovision flops
Voting blocks do exist, but don't use them as an excuse when the UK crashes and burns.
Lib Dem diary: Tory traumas have been hilarious
Watching the Conservatives relive the trauma of the late 1990s over Europe all week has been a bizarre and, quite frankly, hilarious experience.
Analysis
Analysis: Cameron's referendum tactics reveal a deep, deep weakness
Eurosceptic troublemakers have forced David Cameron into a reluctant equivocation which collapses under scrutiny. By refusing to listen to them, they are making him play a terrible political price.
Queen's Speech 2013 analysis: Time running out for real reforms
You can't please all of the people all of the time. But that's not stopping David Cameron and Nick Clegg from trying in the coalition's penultimate Queen's Speech.
Feature
The week in review: Just another monster Tory uprising
Most political parties which collectively shoot themselves in the foot again and again eventually learn their lesson. Not the Conservatives.
The Political Week Online: Pubs, protests, and giant penises
Nigel Farage on the nasty end of a protest in Scotland. If you want to know where giant penises come into this, you'll have to read it. Sorry.
Sketch
Sketch: The great eurosceptic raffle
Tradition, sarcasm and extraordinary silliness mix in committee room ten as the private members' bills are selected.
Sketch: That was the weak Queen's Speech that was
In one of his more complex jibes against Ed Miliband, David Cameron declared in the Commons chamber this afternoon: "The weak are a long time in politics."
Interviews
Interview: Europe minister David Lidington
"It's never dull," Europe minister David Lidington says. As the Conservative in charge of a divisive and controversial area, the question of an EU referendum is never far away.
Interview: Professor Emeritus Eric Evans on Margaret Thatcher's legacy
Now the Iron Lady has finally been laid to rest such debates will fade away, making her legacy more and more the focus of historians. Evans, whose book Thatcher and Thatcherism has re-examined the impact of her collected policies through the 1970s to the current coalition, thinks that, like the French Revolution, it's too soon to really tell quite what effect Thatcherism will have on Britain.
Review
Review: Propaganda and Power, British Library
As the British Library's new exhibition shows, when it comes to propaganda the ridiculous - and our own politics - are never far away.
Film review: The Gatekeepers
A gripping and vital piece of filmaking which will change the way you look at the Israeli-Palestinian problem.
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Festival of Social Sciences: Celebrating the Social Sciences
Evidence-based policy should not be a radical concept. It needs to be celebrated.
Festival of Social Sciences: 2 languages: 2 brains, 2 minds, 2 cultures?
As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, the Deafness Cognition And Language Research Centre (DCAL) hosted an event exploring the powerful benefits of bilingualism in spoken and sign languages, for hearing and deaf people alike - benefits that reach hearing and deaf people alike.
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BSIA: Information Destruction Exhibition & Conference 2013
Following the great success of the BSIA's Information Destruction Conference and Exhibition in May 2012, we are pleased to annouce that the event is returning again in June 2013. This one-day conference and exhibition is aimed at key decision makers in organisations that carry out the secure destruction of confidential material.
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