Martin faces protest in Commons
Today's State Opening of Parliament could be overshadowed by the debacle over a Commons decision to allow police to search the offices of shadow immigration minister Damian Green. Senior Tory and Lib
Dem MPs including Ken Clark and Menzies Campbell are reportedly preparing to disrupt the Speaker's statement at 2.30pm... [continued]
The Mole: Queen's speech leaked 
The Mole: Hints of a carefully choreographed climbdown by Brown and Smith
People: the Queen is no friend of Michael Martin
Coroner: De Menezes ‘not unlawfully killed’
No one individual was responsible for shooting Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station, his inquest has ruled - after the jury was banned from considering whether he
was unlawfully killed by the Metropolitan Police. The surprise order by Sir Michael Wright QC prompted the De Menezes... [continued]
Sir Ian Blair: no shame at the top
Will Self: Sir Ian Blair was right about racism
Thai protesters end airport siege
Anti-government protesters in Thailand have ended their seven-day siege at Bangkok's international airport, after judges disbanded the coalition government and banned Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat
from office for five years. The end of the siege will see some 300,000 foreign tourists, including several thousand British travellers, who were... [continued]
The Thai airport occupation is part of a wider struggle
Rice arrives in India for talks
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has flown to New Delhi in a bid to quell rising tensions between India and Pakistan after last week's attacks in Mumbai. Rice will meet with India's prime
minister and foreign minister although US officials are yet to confirm a possible meeting between the... [continued]
The fatal delay that allowed terrorists to besiege a city
Mumbai: there are big questions which must be answered, says Robert Fox
In pictures: Terror in Mumbai
Anerican Transition: Clinton named Obama's Secretary of State
Govt unveils lie detector tests
Nationwide lie detector tests are to be introduced to catch benefit cheats, as part of a series of tough new measures designed to get claimants back into the workforce. The 'one strike and you're
out' policy, which will be outlined in today's Queen's speech, would see nationwide testing... [continued]
The Mole: the Queen goes to Parliament with most of her speech already leaked
BA and Qantas plan ‘global airline’
British Airways and the Australian national carrier Qantas are in merger talks over a £3.5bn deal that would create the world's first global airline. BA is also in discussion talks with Spanish
airline Iberia and also hopes to expand its current alliance with American airlines. A tie-up between... [continued]
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