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Politics live blog - Thursday 7 July 20118.43am: It doesn't get any more comfortable for News International. Today the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail are both leading on the revelation that the widows of soldiers killed in the Iraq war may have had their phone hacked by the News of the World. Ed Miliband has just issued a statement saying that he is "disgusted" by the news.I am disgusted by the latest allegations about the hacking of the families of fallen soldiers. If true,
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Our antiterrorism courts have a shoddy record of convictions. The judiciary and law-enforcement agencies clearly lack both the will and the means to bring perpetrators to justice. "If we do capture the terrorists who attacked Malala,I do hope they are brought to justice," says the government spokesman,Bhutto Zardari. But sounding less than convinced,he cautions in the same email: "This is a war zone. Just as NATO or the U.S. will not capture every terrorist in Afghanistan we cannot capture every terrorist in Pakistan."Malala’s English teacher,who is close to the family,clicks his tongue when asked if he believes the attackers will get caught and punished. "I don’t think so at all," he says.
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I'd be interested in any questions you have on this.But I don't want to talk exclusively about Rio+20. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has a wide range of responsibilities and we might cover issues like water, as well as some party politics.I won't be able to use all the questions you suggest, but it is helpful to get ideas from others and it is useful to know what topics you find particularly interesting.Barclays boss Bob Diamond under fire as bad behaviour blights BritainI thought we all missed a trick last week in not giving assorted regulators, the people who struggle to control the rascals who try to rip off society one way or another, a well-deserved pat on the back.
Cameron's comment about "better health outcomes" refers to some of the claims made by the Department for Health today in a news release saying that the emergence of clinical commissioning groups is already improving patient care.3.18pm: Here's a short afternoon reading list.? Gavin Kelly at the New Statesman on how Nick Clegg is setting the agenda on tax policy.It remains a curiosity of today's political scene that a small and unpopular party bumping along on 7 to 10 per cent in opinion polls is making the waves on the central issue of tax policy. On this one issue at least, the two main parties find themselves reacting to the gauntlet the Liberal Democrats have laid down.? Tom Watson on his blog publishes the letter he he has written to Bernard Hogan-Howe,
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