Recommended reading (via Toque)   Time for English MPs to stand up for England | This is Devon   SNP says English taxpayers should pay £30 billion North Sea oil costs after independence - Telegraph   Elected mayors will destroy our shadowy civic mafias | The Guardian   Prime minister Asquith and the promise of Home Rule - Belfast Newsletter   Daughter of Saint George - Broowaha   BBC Sport - England and Scotland to unite as Great Britain handball team   BBC iPlayer - Shakespeare's Restless World: England Goes Global   The North East is being abandoned by the Coalition | guardian.co.uk   Independence, Federalism and Sovereignty   The Scottish Issue   Scotland "soft-soaped" says Labour MP - Journal Live   Stands England where it did? | The English Standard   Elected mayors cannot deliver a localist revival | openDemocracy   Skintland: The Economist spells out the wages of Scottish Independence | England calling   "Absolute Madness" -- The Struggle to Create a Unified UK Soccer Team | NBC   Analysis: Be careful not to rise to metropolitan bait - Scotsman   Britain for sale: Uniquely in the world, Britain has sold more than half its companies to foreigners. And we are all paying the...   Paul Linford: It's regional devolution, Jim, but not as we knew it   Happy birthday to the Butcher’s Apron | The English Standard   Ukip if you want to: England needs to wake up – Telegraph Blogs

Channel 4   Qatada - what a difference a day makes   May defends government over Qatada deportation   Pensioners confront MPs over budget 'granny tax'   What the 3 May elections mean for the UK   Who is right on the ECHR - May or Qatada?

The Guardian   London yawns as Boris and Ken go round and round on buses | Adam Bienkov   Phone hacking: key claims from Tom Watson's book   Brian Paddick pledges to tackle Met police racism   Brian Paddick: 'Openness and honesty will win public confidence in the Met police' - video   Theresa May stands firm on Abu Qatada deadline – video

Sky News Home Secretary Stands Firm On Qatada Deadline London Mayor Hopefuls Prepare For Sky Debate UK Wants Deal To Limit Human Rights Court Powers Galloway's Glower: George's Death Stare At PM TUC Chief Brendan Barber Is To Retire

The BBC   May defends Abu Qatada delay   VIDEO: Green call to close London City Airport   Plans create 'nation of suspects'   AUDIO: MP's campaign to cut online porn   Salmond 'withheld' wind farm news

The Daily Express   Hague under pressure over Heywood   Starkey compares Salmond to Hitler   Murdochs to face Leveson Inquiry   Don't vote for Livingstone: Sugar   Hackers target abortion group site

The Telegraph   Shadow Home Secretary: Abu Qatada affair 'is a farce'   President of European human rights court dismisses reform ideas   Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks' office was bugged, claims campaigning MP   Timeline: Abu Qatada's legal battle to stay in Britain   Alex Salmond 'misleads' public over £170 million Doosan project

politics.co.uk   Clegg's shifting rhetoric on Lords reform   Scottish independence referendum: What's in a question?   Clegg: Recall of MPs is just a backstop   Comment: Plain cigarette packaging is mad and dangerous   Abortion service attacked by hackers

Wales Online   Ministry of Defence accused in Parliament of deliberately inflating costs   Russell Roberts defends taking fifth job on public purse   Commons Sketch: A den of snakes becomes a band of brothers   David Cameron says politicians should be free to criticise the judiciary   Archbishop of Wales says gay marriage deserves welcome of church

The Scotsman   Young unemployment figures soar   Labour slams ‘misery’ of bus grant cut   Call for pedestrian zone to revive city centre business   Council approves plans for Big Wheel on Princes Street   Former SNP MSP Bill Walker shunned by colleagues in the chamber

Belfast Telegraph   Zen master who brought aura of calm to Stormont   PSNI raid officer leaves gun in child's bedroom   MLA in no-show after Edwin Poots agrees to apologise for 'idiot' comment   Edwin Poots wrong on 'idiot' comment   Minister wrong on 'idiot' comment

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Labour Party   New figures are a huge embarrassment for a Prime Minister who promised to keep NHS waiting times low - Burnham   Leaked Department for Transport emails reveal truth that Ministers have already approved station ticket office closures – Eag...   Cameron is taking huge risks with the fight against crime - Hanson   Figures illustrate the growing crisis in primary places across England and in particular in London - Twigg   Shapps' hyperbole on HomeSwap, Tory-led Govt out of touch with those living in social housing - Dromey

Conservative Party   David Cameron launches local election campaign   Sayeeda Warsi: Best wishes for a happy Vaisakhi   Boris Johnson: My Party Election Broadcast   Sayeeda Warsi's Easter Message   Sayeeda Warsi's Passover message

Liberal Democrat Party   Stephen Williams: Labour doesn’t understand the tax system   Tim Farron: Blencathra’s lobbying for tax haven astonishing   Tim Farron: No Liberal Democrat-run council in England has raised Council Tax   Simon Hughes: Labour commitment to capping union donations welcome   Liberal Democrat News 13th April 2012

Green Party

UKIP   No more onshore windfarms petition   UKIP London Manifesto 2012   UKIP Local Manifesto 2012   UKIP offers London Tories second preference   EU no friend of charities

Plaid Cymru   5,000 donors' cap: Plaid call for real change not more Labour hypocrisy   Plaid cycles the extra mile in the capital   Party of Wales launches 2012 local government campaign   Plaid Cymru demands control over Welsh water   Plaid's Nathan Flanagan bid's to become nation's youngest councillor

SNP

House of Commons (News)   Westminster Hall debates: 18 April 2012   Committee stage of the Finance (No.4) Bill   Political and Constitutional Reform Committee takes evidence from Deputy Prime Minister   Defence Committee takes evidence on defence and cyber-security   MPs hear from polling and research consultants on referendum on separation for Scotland

House of Lords (News)   Legal Aid: Lords consider amendments   House of Lords recess ends   Conference on Parliament and Human Rights: redressing the democratic deficit   Lords Science Committee take evidence on state of higher education in science   Lords allowances claims

Committee News   Political and Constitutional Reform Committee takes evidence from Deputy Prime Minister   Defence Committee takes evidence on defence and cyber-security   MPs hear from polling and research consultants on referendum on separation for Scotland   Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt appears before the Foreign Affairs Committee   Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee takes evidence on Natural Environment White Paper

Early Day Motions   Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2012 Liverpool   Universities Week 2012   Cup Final Transport   80th Anniversary Of The Kinder Scout Trespass   Time For Action Campaign

Bill News Scotland Civil Aviation Financial Services Recall of Elected Representatives (No. 2) Fire Safety (Protection of Tenants)