Tony Blair’s book signing in Dublin mixes Good Friday with bad Iraq

Tony Blair is welcomed by staff at Dublin’s Easons bookshop yesterday as about 100 protesters chanted outside. Photograph: Niall Carson/Getty Literature and politics have always laid claim to Dublin’s O’Connell Street, bookended by statues of James Joyce and Catholic emancipator... 

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Unions set out their price for backing David Miliband as next Labour leader

David Miliband has been accused of causing untold ‘trauma’ to public sector workers. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA David Miliband, the Labour leadership frontrunner, must ditch his attachment to Blairite policies on privatisation and globalisation if he is to avoid splitting... 

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Nick Clegg ‘bluffed’ David Cameron over alternative vote referendum

David Cameron and Nick Clegg enter No 10. There are now suggestions that the Lib Dem leader exaggerated the deal Labour had offered him on a referendum on alternative voting. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA Fresh claims emerge today that Nick Clegg may have bluffed the Conservative leader, David... 

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David Cameron backs cheap alcohol ban by councils

David Cameron: ‘I think if what you’re trying to do is stop supermarkets from selling 20 tins of Stella for a fiver, that’s what we’ve got to go after.’ Photograph: Reuters David Cameron has indicated that he would support localised minimum pricing on alcohol and... 

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