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Labour leadership hustings - live

Live 13 Sep 2010:
Join Hélène Mulholland for live coverage as all five candidates hoping to become the next Labour leader go head-to-head at the TUC conference
Liberal Democrats 42min ago

Cyril Smith funeral: Rochdale unites for grand northern send-off

13 Sep 2010: Outsize MP's allies and opponents join hundreds of mourners for chapel hymns, Gracie Fields songs and a pea and pie lunch
Comment is free 1hr 26min ago

Who really wields power in Russia

13 Sep 2010: David Hearst: A corrupt security service on a longer leash than the KGB – a new book tells a very different story to the official one
Phil Woolas 1hr 44min ago

Phil Woolas general election campaign 'fomented racial tension'

13 Sep 2010: Former immigration minister's defeated Liberal Democrat rival in Oldham East and Saddleworth challenges re-election, saying vote swayed by false claims
Queen's speech 2hr 41min ago

Government accused of 'abuse of power' after cancelling 2011 Queen's speech

13 Sep 2010: Change to tie in with introduction of fixed-term parliaments means next Queen's speech will not take place until the spring of 2012
Politics blog 3hr 2min ago

TUC conference: Spending cuts set to dominate agenda

13 Sep 2010: Hélène Mulholland previews the first day of the trades union gathering in Manchester
Trade unions 3hr 12min ago

Birmingham city council puts 26,000 staff on notice over new contracts

13 Sep 2010: UK's largest local authority tells employees their contracts are to be changed and cuts in pay and conditions imposed
Politics blog 3hr 45min ago

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
Income tax 4hr 10min ago

Tax return delays expected as HMRC cuts costs

13 Sep 2010: Taxpayers will experience delays when submitting self-assessment forms for the 2009/10 tax year as HMRC redeploys resources to 'higher priority work'
TUC 4hr 29min ago

Unions back mass campaign against spending cuts

13 Sep 2010: TUC conference approves co-ordinated campaign and prepares for political and industrial action
BSkyB 5hr 14min ago

Rupert Murdoch's Sky takeover should be blocked, Vince Cable told

13 Sep 2010: Claire Enders writes to business secretary arguing he should stop News Corp buying 60.9% of BSkyB it does not already own. By James Robinson
Comment is free 5hr 29min ago

Unemployment is no 'lifestyle choice'

13 Sep 2010:
Marianne M Gilchrist: I didn't choose to see my PhD wasted and hopes repeatedly kicked in the teeth – whatever George Osborne believes
Pledge tracker 5hr 58min ago

Pledge tracker: the September update

13 Sep 2010:
Simon Jeffery: Pledge tracker is continuting its work to monitor the coalition agreement. This is some of what has happened over the last month
TUC 6hr 1min ago

We want partnership with unions, says Francis Maude

13 Sep 2010: Minister urges unions to 'engage' with government as TUC general secretary warns cuts would make Britain 'darker, more brutish place'
Liberal-Conservative coalition 6hr 38min ago

The Guardian coalition pledge tracker

13 Sep 2010: Interactive
In its first weeks in government, the Conservative-Liberal Democrats coalition made over 400 pledges as it set out its governing pact. Use our tool to keep tabs on them

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TUC conference: Spending cuts set to dominate agenda

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Unemployment is no 'lifestyle choice'

Marianne M Gilchrist: I didn't choose to see my PhD wasted and hopes repeatedly kicked in the teeth – whatever George Osborne believes
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