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Controversial Muslim cleric will not face charges
Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the cleric who publicly defended suicide bombings in Israel during his visit to Britain, will not be prosecuted, it was announced yesterday. Row over BNP councillor's race equality appointment
A council's race equality committee is facing collapse after Conservative leaders appointed a BNP member in a move denounced by opponents as "a joke". The 10 key questions Butler must answer
Downing Street and MI6 are bracing themselves for the publication on Wednesday of Lord Butler's review into intelligence failings in the run-up to the Iraq war. Release of Silverstone files overturns taboo
As the crowds head for the Silverstone bypass for this weekend's British Grand Prix, the parliamentary ombudsman has overturned a Whitehall taboo - she has ordered the release of files showing how the government put its hand in its pocket to help the motor race organisers. Union leader urges basic rethink of Labour policies
The leader of Tony Blair's own union will today warn that disillusionment among working people could pave the way for a Tory election victory. Advance figures 'fuelling spin'
The practice of giving ministers access to official figures five days early should be stopped to prevent spin and increase the public's trust, according to a critical report by the Whitehall statistics watchdog. Living in fear of the spitting newsreader
Simon Hoggart: To the National Liberal Club, a superb Victorian building just off Whitehall that exudes the confidence of the then-mighty party. (I wonder what structure the Liberal Democrats would build to represent themselves today. No longer a phone booth, obviously - perhaps a Portakabin on a derelict site in some inner city.)
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