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Haven't we all got enough on our plates?
Election: the future - power to the people. Rob Blackhurst prefers centralised control freakery to the inefficiency and corruption of devolved power. Most people, he argues, are too busy to run schools and hospitals [read more]A giant headache for the next four years
Election: the future - tax. Tax is such a political hot potato that no party wanted to touch on the real problems during the election. Robert Chote on the subject which makes even Gordon Brown flinch [read more]Issue of the week
'Voters seem to prefer their leaders a tad dishonest'
Election: Issue of the week - It's no use the opposition parties raising trust as an issue. People think that all politicians are fibbers anyway, writes Richard Reeves [read more]Columns
The insider - Kevin Maguire on Fatty Soames's titfer
Sedgemore's last service, Soames explains his trilby, and Blair photo spotted at last. By Kevin Maguire [read more]Charlie Whelan says . . .
Don't believe it - "Prominent Labour politican defects" [read more]Resources
The best that they can do?
With much fanfare, the main parties are presenting their policies for women. Sandra Barwick takes a good hard look at what it all adds up to[read more]