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WITH a scant week to go until polling day all the parties seem to have belatedly realised that it is time to bring out the big guns and, in at least one case, a stiletto.
Cameron announced yesterday that it was “time to throw caution to the wind.”
Which, ironically, is what got them into this mess in the first place.Someone who seems to have taken his advice to heart however was Lib Dem Treasury wonk Danny Alexander, known for his likeness to muppet Beaker.
Peter Murrell’s weakness for the allure of prestige goods is symptomatic of modern consumer culture, says MATT KERR
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The Tory conference was a pseudo-sacred affair, with devotees paying homage in front of Thatcher’s old shrouds — and your reporter, initially barred, only need mention he’d once met her to gain access. But would she consider what was on offer a worthy legacy, asks ANDREW MURRAY
Sharon Graham addresses the Unite policy conference after talks over the Birmingham bin strikes break down