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Another quiet day on the backbenches
PMQs sketch: Backbenches or football terraces?

Are Britain’s MPs determined to drive the reputation of politics in this country into the dirt? This was the worst prime minister’s questions, and the most entertaining, in a while. By Alex Stevenson Ed Miliband is on paternity leave, which left David Cameron facing Harriet Harman in a rematch of the contests last seen in… Read more »

Comment & Analysis
The protest turns ugly
Sketch: The siege of Millbank

…And how the student protest shot itself in the foot. By Peter Wozniak My, how it all went horribly wrong. What had started as a huge (and surprisingly coherent) outpouring of rational ill-feeling towards the raising of tuition fees became something resembling nothing so much as a medieval siege. Tonight the news is dominated by… Read more »