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BNP official ousted after claims of coup bid against Griffin
Sunday, 4 April 2010
Police called in after party leadership becomes concerned about 'threats to chairman's safety'
Free radical: Why it’s showtime for Billy Bragg
Sunday, 4 April 2010
Has Billy Bragg mellowed since the miners' strike and Red Wedge? Not likely. And now he is taking on his most important challenge: making his stage debut to battle the BNP for the hearts and minds of Barking
Labour poster turns Cameron into a cult hero
Sunday, 4 April 2010
The Milibands' attempt to portray Tory leader as a throwback to the Eighties backfires spectacularly
MPs bow out: Honourable members? There were some...
Sunday, 4 April 2010
While almost no one was spotless, not all of our MPs deserve to be remembered just for the expenses scandal. Nina Lakhani salutes the hard-workers who won't be standing for re-election
MP says B&Bs should be allowed to ban gay couples
Sunday, 4 April 2010
Chris Grayling was taped making the comments at a meeting of the Centre for Policy Studies think-tank.
Drug ban chaos after second resignation
Saturday, 3 April 2010
Government adviser quits over decision to outlaw mephedrone, as ministers are accused of 'criminalising increasing numbers of young people'
Mandelson launches attack on banker
Saturday, 3 April 2010
Lord Mandelson has launched a fierce attack on one of Britain's richest bankers, as Labour stepped up its pre-election sparring over the state of the economy.
Mephedrone ban plans 'unchanged'
Saturday, 3 April 2010
Ministers are ploughing on with plans to ban dance drug mephedrone despite the resignation of another government drugs adviser over the issue.
'No rush yet' on US iPad launch day
Saturday, 3 April 2010
Apple's iPad, the subject of frenzied industry speculation since its unveiling in January, has so far not drawn the hordes that ushered in the iPhone three years ago.
'Life on Mars' as Labour poster portrays David Cameron as Gene Hunt
Saturday, 3 April 2010
Labour will today portray the Conservatives as intent on throwing Britain back to the darkest parts of the Eighties with a new poster campaign. But rather than reaching for an expensive ad agency, it has instead called on a young party loyalist that would probably have been in nappies around the time in question.
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1 Ten of the best April Fools' hoaxes
2 Labour poster turns Cameron into a cult hero
3 BNP official ousted after claims of coup bid against Griffin
4 Life with the seedy men of the City
5 Doncaster wants to be called something else
6 Exposed! Today's April Fools' pranks
7 Williams forced to recant criticism of Irish Catholics
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9 Every voice counts! IoS launches call to the ballot box
10 The Big Question: Why do we celebrate Easter, and where did the bunny come from?
11 And finally...bizarre real life stories
12 Man arrested after girl, 12, stabbed to death
13 Man, 76, claims Britain's oldest father title
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1 Fraud Squad to launch investigation today into Archer's Kurdish charity
2 Covent Garden celebrates the London premiere of classic Russian fable, performed by the Royal Ballet
3 Harry's War: Will he stay or will he go?
4 Tributes paid to 'God's postman', who gave away £2m before dying in a road accident
5 Report into Stockwell killing urges surveillance shake-up
6 Home Office's bid to detain asylum children in mosque raid
7 The Big Question: Why do we celebrate Easter, and where did the bunny come from?
8 From Leeds to London via Luton: the deadly mission of a suicide squad
9 Police scrutinise Labour's top-secret loan documents
10 Man convicted of murder did not get fair trial due to lawyer's conflict of interest
11 Explain U-turn on aid budget, No 10 told
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13 Labour poster turns Cameron into a cult hero
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1Every voice counts! <i>IoS</i> launches call to the ballot box
2Labour poster turns Cameron into a cult hero
3Mandelson launches attack on banker
4Labour poster raises spectre of Thatcher's Britain
5Williams forced to recant criticism of Irish Catholics
6Drug ban chaos after adviser resigns
7South Africa's Terreblanche hacked to death
8You Write the Caption - 1/04/10
9Christopher Jamison: The Pope has a friend in Father Christopher
10Leading Tory says B&Bs should be allowed to ban homosexual couples
Columnist Comments
• Joan Smith: Brown's delicate balancing act
The PM's talk of 'British values' seeks to reassure working class Labour voters, but does nothing to counter extremism
• Rupert Cornwell: Do mention the Germans, Uncle Sam
German-Americans have had a huge impact on the US and it's time they were allowed to shout about it
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