Our dull, doughy parliament needs more Diane Abbotts
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Comment is free: Jackie Ashley: It is 20 years since Britain saw its first black woman MP. Celebrations are muted, however, by the pathetic progress since.
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PETER Costello yesterday declared Sunday night&#39;s debate a bore and said he should take on Mark Latham. &quot;I think a lot of people would have turned it on and had a look to see how it was going and then they&#39;d
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WASHINGTON - Even as congressional leaders draf
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The Senate is by design a cumbersome place to do business. Any one of the 100 senators can gum up the works, and they often do &#151; without uttering a word.
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Comment is free: Jenni Russell: MPs' much-publicised transgressions are as nothing against the gross waste of public money on PFIs and consultancy
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Better planning and more consultation needed The Electronic Patient Record project needs better planning, more consultation and a new timetable, say MPs.â¦
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Legislative races are normally sleepy affairs involving politicians who are virtually unknown outside their district. Campaign spending is scarce, the political implications minimal.
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Just letting off steam  ...  it's incredulous that former House Speaker Thomas Finneran has a radio gig.  Found guilty of  obstruction of justice, probably guilty of making self-interested political deals, Finneran shouldn't even get a job cleaning bathrooms.
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Comment is free: Simon Jenkins: Cameron's plethora of programmes is winning him few friends. To beat Brown, he needs humour, aggression and charm.
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Lambasts DCA's 'unnecessary' focus on reducing costs Parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee has categorically rejected the government's case for new arrangements in handling Freedom of Information requestsâ¦
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This new Congress was supposed to be different. Instead, it is being led by a gaggle of partisan hacks pandering to the same special interests and corporate masters as the previous Republican-led Congress.
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Prime Minister John Howard has been accused of turning his back on Asia, kowtowing to America and being Australia&#39;s most boring leader.
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How do people think the Democratic Congress is doing after six months? Lousy. But better than the alternative.
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The new Alfie is a dull, shallow, and uninspired effort
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Â· ICM results point to hung parliament at electionÂ· Mention of Brown as leader still boosts Tories
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Comment is free: Martin Kettle: The government's woes are not all self-inflicted. The party has too long ignored how Cameron's messages are playing
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The new Scottish Parliament is not Enric Miralles's epic masterwork, but it conveys the aesthetic struggle of a first-rate creative mind.