Archive: 26 July – 1 August 2010
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Friday 30 July 2010
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Still waiting for this data: a Metrolink tram moves through the centre of Manchester. Photograph: Christopher Thomond
Developer community secures first major data release for the city
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Lord Prescott arrives at the QE2 conference centre in London to give evidence to the Iraq Inquiry. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA
Hélène Mulholland reports on Lord Prescott's evidence to the Chilcot inquiry as it happened
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Wednesday 28 July 2010
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Don't mention Kashmir. That is the unequivocal message from every minister accompanying David Cameron on his trip to India.
The six cabinet ministers have been drilled by the Foreign Office, which was bruised after Labour ministers repeatedly slipped up on the acutely sensitive issue, to say absolutely nothing on Kashmir.
Vince Cable, the business secretary who is attuned to Indian sensitivities after visiting the country regularly since 1965, gave a taste of the new approach this morning. Asked about Kashmir, he said:
That is a dispute within the sub-continent that we are not expressing a view on.
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Asbo statistics mapped. Click image for full graphic. Illustration: Paul Scruton for the Guardian
Theresa May says anti-social behaviour orders are on the way out. See what the data says
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General Sir Michael Jackson, a former chief of the general staff, arrives to give evidence to the Iraq Inquiry. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images
Live coverage as Dannatt, former chief of the army, and Jackson, former chief of the general staff, give evidence to the Chilcot panel
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Tuesday 27 July 2010
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David Cameron, who willarrive in India with the largest British delegation since 1947. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA
Not since the days of the Raj, which came to end 63 years ago next month, have so many Brits traipsed to India on an official visit.
David Cameron will tonight fly into India with the largest British delegation since the sun came down on the Raj in August 1947.
Previous prime ministers, notably Tony Blair, have led large delegations to India before. But Cameron has gone one stage better by taking captains of industry plus six cabinet ministers.
There are the obvious big names like John Varley of Barclays and Richard Olver, chairman of BAE. On the ministerial side George Osborne will be heading to India's commercial capital Mumbai. William Hague will accompany Cameron. Continue reading...
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Former United Nations chief arms inspector, Hans Blix. Photograph: TONI ALBIR/EPA
Live coverage as the UN's former chief weapons inspector gives evidence to the Chilcot panel
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The Guardian and ICM have been conducting monthly polls since 1984. Here is the full data going back to then. Plus, for the first time, we can bring you the trends in the big questions and how they've changed over time. Continue reading...
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David Cameron prepares for a fight with France and Germany over Turkey's admission to the EU. Photograph: Pool/REUTERS
The European Union has perfected the art in recent years of offending Turkey.
I remember a miserable evening in Luxembourg in 2005, during the British presidency of the EU, when formal membership negotiations with Turkey were meant to open. A predictable snag within the EU meant that foreign ministers, under the chairmanship of Jack Straw, could not confirm that the talks would actually begin.
Abdullah Gul, then the Turkish foreign minister who is now the country's president, is no fool. And so he told the foreign ministers that he would not sit in a hotel room in Luxembourg while the EU foreign ministers worked through their differences. Continue reading...