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Brown’s self-inflicted taxation wounds

As the UK prime minister reels from one crisis to another, he should reflect on a thread that runs through them – taxation, writes.John Willman

Sensible banking: the new big thing

‘Until we can sell on your loan to some sucker, we feel it prudent to scale back’: Robert Shrimsley has sight of the latest letter from Carefree Bank

Gordon listens as the Titanic sinks

Brown’s coping strategy seems doomed. Sue Cameron hears that his determination to start listening to the people – is based on some very old Conservative spin

All together: ‘Blade on the feather . . . ’

With the UK’s opposition Conservative party resurgent, perhaps in two years’ time a new wave of MPs will link arms and sing not ‘The Red Flag’ but ‘The Eton Boating Song’, writes Brian Groom

No drugs please, Boris is celebrating

Friday should be Johnson’s big night. A reward for good behaviour, having avoided talk of piccaninnies and cannibals. Emma Jacobs imagines the scene

The human faces of a food crisis

‘As a young mother leaves Waitrose empty-handed, it is all you can do to stop the tears.’ The food crisis has hit London’s middle class, writes Robert Shrimsley

Whitehall starts singing the blues

In less time than it takes to say ‘tax debacle’, a new tune is sounding through Whitehall. Civil servants are starting to talk Torywrites Sue Cameron

Edinburgh throws open a square

Andrew Bolger on the public opening of St Andrew Square – elegant and tasteful today, but with a reminder of a rather less salubrious past at its centre

Memoirs of a cabinet compulsive

The FT has seen a draft of Gordon Brown’s memoirs, which includes the revelation that he spent years addicted to binge taxing, writes Robert Shrimsley

Chancellor’s tax defeat is déjà vu

An unlikely crumb of comfort for Alistair Darling, the beleaguered chancellor, from Conservative former chancellor Ken Clarke, writes Sue Cameron

Still fond of ‘this blessed plot’

Boris, Ken and Brian hang out

Grow crops to eat, not burn as fuel

An indestructible Livingstone?

Suburbs seek life beyond the cliché

Time for change on the licence fee

Still want Tibet on the torch relay?

Get Carter to do his porridge

‘Flintgrads’ and an eco-image problem

More questions than answers, Boris