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• Look Left: Gay marriage, child poverty targets and the IMF verdict
  James Bloodworth looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week. […]
• Energy of the future: Transforming Germany’s energy system
  Ensuring a reliable, economically viable and environment-friendly energy supply is one of the great challenges of the 21st century. In 2011 Germany embarked on an ambitious programme to transform its energy system. In future, Germany's energy supply will be generated primarily from renewables. […]
• The tweet that sums up the English Defence League
  The tweet that sums up the English Defence League […]
• The government’s drive to cut immigration risks splitting up families
  In two weeks time the daughter of one of my friends will get married. This happy occasion will be marred by the fact that soon after the wedding her new husband may have to leave the UK. Despite his high earning potential, new rules about family migration, introduced in July 2012, will exclude him from obtaining a spouse’s visa. […]
• First minister warns of pain to come in Wales
  The first minister of Wales has issued a stark warning of painful financial decisions to come ahead of George Osborne’s spending review at the end of next month. […]
• Target to decarbonise power sector by 2030 could save every British family over £1,000
  New analysis published today by the independent Committee on Climate Change shows that every family in Britain could save at least £1,131 and as much as £4,525 if the government adopted a target to decarbonise the power sector by 2030. […]
• A reply to Nick Pearce: Why Labour must stick to child poverty targets
  First, for the last 30 years, poverty in the UK has hovered close to the one-in-five mark, mostly a little below, but sometimes a little above, but a rate almost double the level of the 1970s and much higher than the average amongst other rich nations. This has been driven by a sustained widening in the gap between top and bottom along with the erosion of li […]

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• Cabinet office to fly rainbow flag during Pride week
  Francis Maude to show commitment to equality agenda by allowing flag to be flown from cabinet office next monthFrancis Maude is to show the government's commitment to the equality agenda by allowing the rainbow flag to be flown from the cabinet office in Whitehall during Pride week next month.David Cameron has faced criticism for attempting to distance […]
• Lord Black: the Tory peer at the heart of media's biggest battle
  The 'extremely efficient' Lord Black is one of those attempting to frustrate parliament's plans for press regulationThose who might think that the era of the press baron is over haven't heard of Lord Black. He may not be a household name but the Conservative peer, director of the company behind the Daily Telegraph and consummate insider i […]
• Phone-hacking victims reject newspapers' charter proposal
  Culture secretary Maria Miller has been urged not to permit the press industry to 'write its own rulebook'Some of the most prominent victims of phone-hacking have written to the culture secretary, Maria Miller, urging her to reject the royal charter proposed by the press industry, saying that it is unacceptable for "those responsible for the d […]
• Hugh Muir's diary: Buckles has bolted but still the millions roll in for G4S
  Another fine mess. Another big contract• There's no way back from the bungling of a £284m contract with the government, one would have thought. And certainly the future looks less than bright for G4S's departing chief executive Nick Buckles, who presided over the Olympic security fiasco. But in the privatisation-crazed 21st century, one never says […]
• Steve Bell on David Cameron's response to the Woolwich killing – cartoon
  David Cameron refuses to make knee-jerk response to killing of Lee Rigby in WoolwichSteve Bell     […]
• Government ready to hit football with bill to push through reforms
  • Sports minister wants to accelerate change at FA and beyond• Game's response to governance failings has been inadequateThe government has issued a stark final warning to football, making it clear that it is already drawing up legislation in an effort to force the game into long overdue reforms, including becoming more diverse and involving fans in the […]
• The War on Drugs: the Observer debate – as it happened
  Live coverage of a panel discussion on drug laws with David Simon, writer of The Wire, documentary maker Eugene Jarecki, Rachel Seifert, the director of the documentary Cocaine Unwrapped and others at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. The debate was chaired by Observer editor John MulhollandSaptarshi Ray     […]
• Letters: Uniting to help Ed Miliband transform Britain
  Len McCluskey denies any "breach of party rules" over his union's strategy in seeking to influence Labour party panel selections (Mandelson's argument is about politics not procedure, 21 May). He insists: "Unite's aim is simple – to recruit members to the party and then encourage them to endorse union-supported candidates in one […]
• Letters: 'Orwellian' changes to legal aid provision
  As a practising member of the criminal bar, I am horrified at the proposed changes to the provision of legal aid, currently undergoing a so called "consultation period" by the Ministry of Justice (Editorial, 22 May), albeit the justice minister refuses to meet the chairman of the Criminal Bar Association. It is clear that the truncated consultation […]
• Jeremy Hunt's blundering blaming of GPs makes for bad politics | Polly Toynbee
  The health secretary is taking a risk in gunning for family doctors. The public trust them more than they do those in governmentThe inevitable NHS crisis has begun to rumble even sooner than predicted. Not two months into the great commercialising upheaval, and blood pressure in the NHS is already rising. When a spending tourniquet squeezes both health and s […]

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