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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Andrew Sparrow

Worth a look: six politics articles we like

Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times wonders why Europeans are doing so little to cooperate with Barack Obama.

Andy Hayman, a former assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan police, in the Times on how the police will have been preparing for the G20.

David Aaronovitch in the Times says the leak of information about Jacqui Smith's inadvertent claim for pornographic movies was "as big a breach [of privacy] as one can imagine".

Steve Richards in the Independent on MPs' expenses, how Jacqui Smith was not even Gordon Brown's second choice for home secretary and how today's ministers aren't as impressive as their predecessors.

John Redwood on his blog says MPs' pay and expenses are "small beer" compared to the equivalent figures for "the top of quangoland and local government".

Charles Moore in the Daily Telegraph says that The Apprentice is "capitalism's theatre of the absurd" and that the contestants don't care about their customers and are not much good at anything.

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