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  Michael Gove's leg-up for poor kids is worth a try

  14 Sep 2010: Michael White: I'm doubtul schools will want to give admissions priority to children from poor families – but I'd be happy to be proved wrong

• Anti-poverty quango row: look at salaries, not expenses claims

  13 Sep 2010: Michael White: Ever since MPs got turned over for their expenses it's been coalition policy to use the same device against overpaid civil servants

• Dumfries House: the real cost of princely interventions

  10 Sep 2010:

  Michael White: Does the involvement of Prince Charles in worthy causes like the purchase of Dumfries House do more harm than good?

• Where is the petrol for the private sector engine going to come from?

  9 Sep 2010: Michael White: A remark by Nick Clegg makes me worry that the coalition has not grasped the role that public spending plays in promoting the health of the private sector
  

• Why the French make pensions a cause celebre

  8 Sep 2010: Michael White: Over the channel they take to the streets over raising the pension age. Here we have a more measured response

• HMRC tax blunder: Osborne should ask them to try a bit harder

  7 Sep 2010: Michael White: As with benefit errors or tax credit miscalculations by officialdom, my instinct is that people – especially poor people – should be let off when the mistake is not theirs

• The phone-hacking scandal spider's web

  6 Sep 2010: Michael White: In a world where we all have to justify ourselves, newspapers should do so too. Likewise the police, difficult though their job is

• St Gordon and Sir Tony – the hairshirt v the linen shirt on the road to redemption

  3 Sep 2010: Michael White: Brown and Blair are embarking on very different post-premiership paths. But the more austere model does not necessarily reflect greater personal virtue

• Coverage of William Hague story is a shaming day for Fleet Street

  2 Sep 2010:

  Michael White: But the foreign secretary does not come out of this controversy too well either

• Tony Blair book: Raging against the former PM may say more about you than him

  1 Sep 2010: Michael White: Despite his many failings, I thought Tony Blair achieved much to improve Britain, that he was a formidable politician and that hindsight is likely to reinforce my verdict in the long run

• Labour leadership contest: oldies like me, Blair and Mandelson should pipe down

  31 Aug 2010: Michael White: Our contributions are likely to be counterproductive, irritating the very people we may foolishly be trying to influence

• MPs and Ipsa – frustration at a flawed system?

  26 Aug 2010: Michael White: MPs are in the firing line again over alleged use of bad language in dealings with parliament's new expenses police. But the Ipsa system sounds a bad one

• Cover-ups and scandals: Are Tory governments treated more leniently than Labour?

  25 Aug 2010: It is part of the media's job to be vigilant rather than running half-baked gossip undermining the commodity of public confidence

• Let's not wonder how Camerons' baby might affect Lib-Con marginals

  24 Aug 2010: Michael White: A British prime minister's wife having a baby is no longer a surprise. After a 150-year drought, this is the second time it has happened in a decade

• We need an educated workforce – and an educated citizenry

  24 Aug 2010: In an ever-smarter world, all but the most myopic parents sense that getting their children an education is urgent

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