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So there we have it. After three days of political posturing. Round one. Salmond one. Coalition nil. With 1000 days to go. And all we have so far is a rough date for the Scottish referendum. If you think that a legally binding, clear cut referendum, to be held as soon...

There’s a problem that’s been bugging me for as long as I’ve been involved in local politics, and I think I’ve finally found the answer. The problem is the way that the estates in east London look so scruffy, due to the gardens on the ground floor of blocks being...

And so it came round again- the prime minister opened what turned out to be quite a ‘boring’ session with the customary tributes to those armed forces personnel who have died since the House last sat back in December. The exchanges between Ed Miliband and David...

In a powerful documentary on Putin's Russia made by Norma Percy to be shown on BBC2 on 19 January there is an extraordinary moment when the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky confronts the recently elected President Putin. On film he tells him that Russia is so corrupt up...