Steve Bell's If ... David Cameron revels in the flummery
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May 2003
Regional government: the issue explained
Referendums on the creation of regional parliaments are to be held shortly. But does the idea has the public and political backing needed to press ahead? Simon Parker reports.
April 2003
Q&A: cross-charging
The government is proposing to fine councils if they delay the discharge of patients into community care and so block NHS beds unnecessarily. But will that mean one part of the NHS fining another? And how will the plans affect patients? David Batty reports.
The pub is part of the traditional fabric of British life. If you ask tourists what they want to see on their visits to the UK, pubs are always mentioned as being in the top ten - along with red buses and bobbies.
24-hour drinking bill launched in pub
The culture secretary, Tessa Jowell, predicted today that just a handful of pubs, bars or clubs would take advantage of a proposed new law allowing them to open around the clock.
An ideology vacuum
Polly Toynbee
Polly Toynbee: Blair promised action in his second term. But this Queen's speech could have been drafted by John Major.