As parliament pays respects, revelations emerge that Speaker originally rejected recall of MPs and Foreign Office caused anger by issuing funeral dress code

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Decision to summon MPs for seven-and-a-half-hour session breaks with precedent and plans for former leader's death

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Make no mistake, the politicised contest about how to remember the former prime minister is not about the past

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The coalition is maintaining Thatcher's project of rolling back the frontiers of the state, dismantling the settlement that held from 1945 until it unravelled in the 1970s

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Ed Miliband has to defy the skiver talk instead of vainly propping up the status quo or doing the Tories' work for them

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The Stafford hospital scandal is far from unprecedented. Dickens and Gladstone would have recognised this human weakness

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Miliband has ended the psychodrama with his brother Ed and taken on a plum job. But it might not be good news for Labour

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As our politicians keep on failing, affection grows for those who are unelected. Democracy itself is looking fragile

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Chancellor tries not so much to defend record as change subject with some politically transparent headline-grabbers

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