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Higher education
Reassuringly expensive
Getting poor students to university costs more than money (3)
Capita and the deficit
Austerity's winner
Outsourcing firms reckon on fixing Britain’s public finances (2)
Heathrow revisited
The mayor's new air war
London’s airports are too full, but will a plan to remedy the problem take off? (0)
Labour's foreign policy
Beyond the water's edge
Douglas Alexander is shaping the opposition’s take on the world (1)

The new census

The final count

This year’s big, complicated census may also be the last

Blighty

A policeman's lot

Britain's police are important allies for a government facing the prospect of unrest as spending cuts bite. But they are not immune from austerity More »

Aspiration, aspiration, aspiration

With the looming rise in tuition fees, the question of how to get more poor pupiles into good universities is more salient than ever More »

Bagehot's notebook

The right to burn poppies

How much longer must we tolerate the free speech of fanatical nutters over-ruling the sanctity of the Remembrance Day silence? A lot longer, I sincerely hope. More »

Andrew Lansley and his imaginary evidence
Bad Science

Too precious to destroy
Philip Pullman

The tyranny of conventional wisdom
Mehdi Hasan, New Statesman

Is the Bank of England trying to inflate away Britain's debts?
Jeremy Warner, the Telegraph

As the left sulks, the centre right have become the optimists
Julian Glover, the Guardian

The English language