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Guy Rundle examines the Cameron government’s latest UK budget and finds it comes up sorely lacking.

Today is all about Rupert, but let’s not forget yesterday’s session at the Leveson Inquiry, in which the 81-year-old’s son and heir, James Murdoch, was slow-roasted for six hours in London’s High Court. So how did Sun King and son stack up against each other?

The government of the United Kingdom has pulled off one of the great political con jobs, writes David Ritter from London.

Grinning, young, confident, Labour leader Ed Miliband strode across the vast forecourt of the Liverpool Conference Centre, towards a date with destiny — his first leader’s speech to the party conference.

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s push to reduce the numbers of nuclear-armed submarines operating within Britain’s military took US diplomats by surprise, another cable released by WikiLeaks shows today.

“You know, I of course I feel sorrow for the people who have died, how could you not…” God, there it was again, that voice, pouring out of the radio at 6:30 in the morning, as one of the last sunny days began outside. Tony Blair back from the shadowlands of post-priministerial life, and right […]

Tony Blair’s soon to be released tell-all memoir is generating controversy throughout the UK, with the former British PM claiming he foresaw disaster in his beleaguered replacement, Gordon Brown, reports Martin Kettle.

Unlike his predecessor, British Prime Minister David Cameron’s first state visit to the United States has been a great success, complete with matching podiums at his joint press conference with US President Barack Obama, writes Kevin Connolly.

The British Labour Party needs to break the deafening silence about Gordon Brown and his failed election leadership if they have any chance of moving forward, writes Andrew Rawnsley.

The assassination of Kevin Rudd may have been act of cold and calculated political maneuvering, but it demonstrates a boldness British Labour lacked when it stuck with fallen leader Gordon Brown, writes Martin Kettle.

Daily Media Wrap: Kevin Rudd had the chance to call an early election, one he probably would have won easily, but he didn’t and now the election is a far deadlier fight.

As it turned out, both the Conservatives and the Lib-Dems said enough was enough on Britain’s Orwellian surveillance state. Who’d a thunk it?

As David Cameron prepares to move into No.10 Downing Street, a vastly more important British civil service post has yet to be filled: the resident Downing Street cat. It has strong historical significance.

A sad photo gallery of Gordon Brown’s final moments at Number 10, as he takes the killer phone call from Nick Clegg and then the drawings by Brown’s children are removed from the walls.

Gordon Brown resigned as UK PM and 90 minutes later David Cameron was waltzing through the door of Number 10 Downing Street. How did Brown manage to pack up so quickly?

With Gordon Brown’s resignation following the UK Election, there’s much talk of the man having “fallen on his sword”. But Brown got off lightly compared to samurai days, writes Mike Stuchbery.

The new “marriage” between David Cameron and Nick Clegg is already getting relationship advice. A fixed five year term is bold. It may well also be unconstitutional, but that discussion is still playing out.

The UK has a new prime minister and a new government. Whatever New Labour was, it has gone, leaving much and perhaps taking more.

The British people are waking up to the news that they have a new prime minister and a new political era. The question is, what kind of political era?