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Awkward questions bring the love-in to an end
Coalition already stuttering as Tories query issues of Europe and vote system reform.

UK Govt's bonfire of old policies
Civil servants across Whitehall have started the process of destroying schemes that they have spent years preparing.

Brown has big lead over Banks for super mayor
Manukau Mayor Len Brown has a big lead on Auckland City Mayor John Banks in a Herald-DigiPoll survey on the Super City mayoralty.

Buy one ruling party, get one free
This may have been a shotgun wedding, but David Cameron and Nick Clegg were determined to convince us that their parties really have fallen in love.

NZ anti-whaler's life in Japanese prison
A look at the conditions of detention faced by a NZ anti-whaling activist awaiting trial in Japan for disrupting whaling in the Southern Ocean.

Cameron's sure-footed journey to the top
You don't have to be a swivel-eyed conspiracy theorist to think that David Cameron was bound to be Prime Minister one day.

Tuhoe hold emergency talks over Key 'betrayal'
Tuhoe are holding emergency hui to discuss John Key's announcement that iwi ownership of the Urewera National Park is off the negotiating table.