Wednesday, 26 March 2014

PMQs special - politics.co.uk

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"Books represent a lifeline behind bars, a way of nourishing the mind and filling the many hours that prisoners spend locked in their cells."

Read all about it: Prisoner book ban latest

Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwan join literary heavyweights in attack on prison book ban

Salmon Rushdie joins campaign against prison book ban

The most famous authors in Britain join together to demand Chris Grayling reverses his prison book ban

Prison book ban: The questions Chris Grayling must answer

Chris Grayling: the questions the justice secretary still needs to answer

Last night, Chris Grayling wrote a piece for Politics.co.uk defending his ban on prisoners being sent books. Today, we highlight the questions raised by his response.

Alan Bennett joins prison book ban campaign

Alan Bennett is set to intervene in the prisoner books debate

Justice secretary barely keeps his head above water as he's hit by multiple crises

Comment: Grayling has shown his true colours with prison book ban

Comment: The ban on sending prisoners books is part of my rehabilitation revolution

Prison book ban: Grayling hits back at critics

Comment: Why has Grayling banned prisoners being sent books?

An electric PMQs

PMQs verdict: Miliband's smile froze on his lips

Tory backbenchers were delighted by David Cameron's performance in this week's PMQs

Ed Miliband thought he was on to a winner - but somehow the Labour leader missed yet another opportunity to make David Cameron look stupid

PMQs as-it-happens

PMQs as-it-happens

All the twists and turns of this week's session, with Politics.co.uk's live blog.

'We're getting hammered': The never-ending misery of energy bosses

Lots of bright ideas? Not really

Facing a maelstrom of public anger from consumers, politicians and the press, energy bosses are getting desperate

Meanwhile...

Comment: How much does the war on drugs costs you?

Jason Reed: 'We've found ourselves going off-piste and lacking in any degree of continuity in the conduct of existing drug law enforcement'

Experiments overseas provide vital clues for how to price cannabis and use it to reduce the deficit.

NUT strike: Why performance-related pay for teachers doesn't work

Performance related pay: Does it improve grades?

Teachers are right to strike over performance related pay: studies show it simply doesn't work.

Why east London needs a new bridge

London is expanding east and needs a new bridge connecting north and south.

IET Award finalist in Marks and Spencer’s Leading Ladies campaign

Roma Agrawal is hitting headlines alongside big names such as Annie Lennox and Rita Ora, after Marks and Spencer chose the 30-year-old structural engineer as one of their ‘Leading Ladies’.

RSPCA warns of rabies threat from illegally imported puppies

MPs discuss measures to halt imported European puppies.

RSPCA rescue cat helps make sure diabetic owner is feline fine

A rescue cat left dumped in a box outside a shop has proved to be the purrrrrrfect pet by raising the alarm when her young owner’s blood sugar levels dip to dangerous levels.

Government’s zero hours proposals fail to protect low paid workers

Responding to the Government’s proposal to outlaw ‘exclusivity’, the LITRG argues that proposals fail to grasp what is actually needed to bring sustainable protection for low paid workers on zero hour contracts.

3M Appoints Spandex as Master Distributor for Architectural Finishes

Next day availability on more than 500 patterns, ideal for shop fitting, interior decoration and refurbishment projects.

Expectant elephant speared in Amboseli

In what may be one of the saddest incidences of poaching in recent times, an expectant elephant has been speared to death within the Amboseli ecosystem.

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