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MPs' expenses 11min ago

MPs under fire over expenses again

11 Sep 2014: Concern as figures emerge showing that MPs claimed more last year than at the peak of the expenses scandal in 2008/9
Energy industry 12min ago

Power plant construction programme 'may prove expensive and unnecessary'

11 Sep 2014: Public might have underwrite £359m annual cost if ministers do not put more emphasis on reducing electricity demand, MPs say
Global development 31min ago

Ebola outbreak an avoidable tragedy, say UK ministers

11 Sep 2014: Commons committee report says hesitancy and lack of coordination over crisis suggests that emergency plans failed
Glasgow 1hr 9min ago

Glasgow pulls no punches in welcome to 'Save the Union Express'

11 Sep 2014: Labour MPs, councillors and advisers from London disembark in Scottish city to cheers of 'rubbish, lies, excrement!'

• Live updates from the Scotland independence battle
Pride 1hr 17min ago

Pride review – when gay activists struck a deal with miners

11 Sep 2014: Peter Bradshaw: This poignant account of an unlikely alliance between gay activists and striking miners has strong resonances today
Guardian diary 1hr 33min ago

Diary: A question for jobseekers – would you take a bullet for Putin?

11 Sep 2014: Hugh Muir: The president’s spin machine has hit a glitch. You can help
Scottish independence blog 1hr 53min ago

New poll has Scotland rejecting independence by four-point margin – as it happened

11 Sep 2014: Andrew Sparrow and Ben Quinn’s rolling coverage of all the developments in the Scottish independence referendum campaign, including Alex Salmond holding a press conference
Scottish independence 2hr 2min ago

Poll: support for Scottish independence cools as referendum draws near

11 Sep 2014: Latest YouGov poll shows support for the no vote rising by three points to 52%, leaving yes vote support four points behind
Scottish independence 2hr 22min ago

Retailers under pressure to back no vote in Scottish referendum

11 Sep 2014: Campaign warning of higher prices following independence backed by No 10, but leading supermarkets refuse to join
Clacton byelection 2014 3hr 27min ago

Conservatives select former 1980s television star to fight Ukip in Clacton

11 Sep 2014:
Giles Watling playing catch-up against Douglas Carswell, who was the town's MP before defecting from Tory ranks to Ukip
Scottish independence 4hr 16min ago

Independent Scotland 'faces doubling of BBC licence fee'

11 Sep 2014: The BBC says it must maintain its impartiality and will not comment on any issue which might sway the vote
Comment is free 4hr 17min ago

It’s not just Scotland where politics as usual is finished

11 Sep 2014: John Harris: From Falkirk to Clacton, a wide spectrum of people I’ve met are singularly disaffected by the traditional parties
Scottish independence 4hr 31min ago

Historical messages for the Scots

11 Sep 2014: Letters: What is at stake is not just the Act of Union but the future of all the people of the island of Britain
International trade 4hr 39min ago

Increasing corporate profits should not be a public policy goal

11 Sep 2014: Letters: The Conservative party and UKIP appear content to surrender vast swaths of UK sovereignty to multinational companies
Scottish independence 4hr 49min ago

Scotland's NHS is not better off with independence, says IFS

11 Sep 2014: Thinktank rebuts Salmond's claim that union threatens health service as Gordon Brown hints he might challenge first minister

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New poll has Scotland rejecting independence by four-point margin – as it happened

Andrew Sparrow and Ben Quinn’s rolling coverage of all the developments in the Scottish independence referendum campaign, including Alex Salmond holding a press conference
Politics Live blog - readers’ edition: Thursday 11 September

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It’s not just Scotland where politics as usual is finished

John Harris: From Falkirk to Clacton, a wide spectrum of people I’ve met are singularly disaffected by the traditional parties
Hear Labour’s new rallying cry: power to the people

Neal Lawson: The publication of the One Nation document sets out a potential transformation in the way Britain does its politics
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Martin Rowson on the Bárðarbunga volcano - cartoon

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Civil Aviation Authority says it will not close UK airspace in the event of an eruption of the Bárðarbunga volcano
Martin Rowson on the Middle East crises

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Western powers try to decide if their enemy's enemy is their friend
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Mrs Cameron's Diary

I don't want to be stuck on a Cornish beach with Dave and that wetsuit

Catherine Bennett: The crisis in Syria and Iraq worsens, but all Cameron can think about is how great the bodyboarding is in Cornwall. How would Samantha view events of the last week?
It's holiday season – time to think about beach reads!

What Samantha Cameron might have said when casting around for a book to recline with on that hard-earned summer holiday
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The Guardian coalition pledge tracker

In its first weeks in government, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition made 433 pledges. Use our tool to see what they are and keep tabs on whether they are being met

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Michael Gove ditched in David Cameron's reshuffle – Politics Weekly podcast

Rafael Behr, Anne Perkins and Hugh Muir join Tom Clark to discuss David Cameron's biggest reshuffle of his cabinet yet

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Elitism in Britain - breakdown by profession

A government report has likened elitism in Britain to “social engineering”. Find out the profession with the highest proportion of its members educated at private school
MPs fail to represent ethnic minorities in their constituencies

New research shows that Britain’s major political parties are failing to reflect the racial mix of their constituencies. Get the data