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  The problem with David Cameron's 'big society' is that the Tories don't buy it

  6 Oct 2010: Jonathan Freedland: David Cameron's attempt to shift responsibility from state to citizen was too abstract for an underwhelmed Tory audience

• Blair left Downing Street years ago, but his ghost haunts all our politics

  5 Oct 2010: Jonathan Freedland: If the child benefit cut is a calculated attempt to provoke the Tory base, then it comes straight from Tony's playbook

• Michael White's Conference Daily: Law and order; crime and the Conservatives

  Audio (21min 55sec), 5 Oct 2010:

  Justice secretary Kenneth Clarke vowed to introduce a pragmatic reform of the penal system, as Theresa May announced new powers for police accountability. So where do the Tories stand on law and order? Michael White reports

• David Miliband has left frontline politics – but for how long?

  29 Sep 2010: Jonathan Freedland: David Miliband is not so much making an exit from frontline politics as taking a break

• David Miliband: A life in politics

  Audio slideshow, 29 Sep 2010:

  Jonathan Freedland looks back at the career of David Miliband so far, from his days as an adviser to Tony Blair, to losing to his brother, Ed, in the fight for the Labour leadership

• Ed Miliband's speech consigns some (not all) of New Labour to the bin

  28 Sep 2010: Jonathan Freedland: Into the dustbin went some signature New Labour deeds, from the Iraq war to a deregulated City

• Michael White's Conference Daily: Miliband calls for 'new generation' to inspire Labour

  Audio (18min 50sec), 28 Sep 2010:

  Labour leader Ed Miliband told his party conference that his party needed to accept blame for losing the trust of the British people and embrace the optimism of a "new generation" in politics

• Charlie Whelan: I persuaded six MPs to switch second preference to Ed Miliband

  26 Sep 2010:

  Jonathan Freedland: Under Labour's weighted electoral college system, efforts by outgoing Unite union political director may have been crucial to Ed Miliband's victory

• Ed Miliband won because he was neither Blair nor Brown

  25 Sep 2010:

  Jonathan Freedland: Labour's 18th leader won by a razor-thin margin because he emerged unscathed from the party's past battles

• In Manchester Labour's new leader must respect the lessons of Liverpool

  21 Sep 2010: Jonathan Freedland: Mocking Lib Dems will bring easy laughs – and suits Cameron. The Tories are the real enemy, cuts the real battleground

• Nick Clegg's conference speech: Cif verdict, part 1

  20 Sep 2010:

  The panel: Our columnists give their verdict on Nick Clegg's speech at the Liberal Democrat conference in Liverpool

• I see why 'double genocide' is a term Lithuanians want. But it appals me

  14 Sep 2010:

  Jonathan Freedland: To equate Soviet and Nazi crimes is dishonest and historically false. Why has this poisonous idea taken such deep root?

• David Grossman: 'Israel is a lofty idea, and it's worth fighting for'

  Audio (30min 38sec), 8 Sep 2010:

  Israeli author David Grossman talks to Jonathan Freedland

• An economy kept afloat by mafia cash is not just the stuff of Le Carré thrillers

  7 Sep 2010: Jonathan Freedland: Until we find the political will, the establishment will be happy to ignore the dirty crimes behind today's dazzling fortunes

• David Grossman and the new publishing season

  Audio (29min 06sec), 3 Sep 2010:

  A look at the contenders already jockeying for position at the Christmas tills, and Jonathan Freedland interviews the great Israeli novelist David Grossman

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