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Leading article: Personal attacks and backbiting will only alienate the electorate

Discipline within the Labour Party has broken down. A government long criticised for 'control freakery' is allowing events to run out of control
Leading article: Great Scot

Where Manchester United and Chelsea now play once echoed to the cries and clashes of that essentially and fearsomely Scottish pursuit with sticks and a ball, Shinty. As the balance of power shifts, the story can be told.
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Jemima Lewis: It's the adults who need the cycling lessons
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Richard Ingrams' Week: So Blair leaves in May. Why wait that long?
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Simon Calder: The Man Who Pays His Way
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Christina Patterson: The body clock calls time, gentlemen, please
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Alexei Sayle: The World According To Me
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The Third Leader: Happy walk
- John McDonnell: Face the facts: New Labour has failed
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Andrew Grice: The Week In Politics
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Simon Carr: They all want compensation, but few will take responsibility for its effects on society
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David Lister: The Week in Arts
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Dominic Lawson: It wasn't Gordon Brown who assassinated the Prime Minister. It was David Cameron
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Adrian Hamilton: The national interest is the last thing on his mind