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The government has no democratic authority to impose these cuts; the Tories and the Lib Dems both pledged before the election to honour the existing indexing and accrued rights of pensioners. In the face of such ruthlessness, trade unions have a right and a duty to challenge this government.

• So we have a deficit problem and a pension problem, and, they say, we are all in the same boat. I 'pay cap MPs', nor the plans, MPs freeze \ pensions to read and the period in which they are paid is reduced. Maybe I missed reporting on this? If a strategy to reduce the deficit could be shown to be fair, all members of society, except the poorest, at the same rate, then maybe the need for strikes would disappear?

John Kramer

Leicester

• I have the position of public employees and supporting their plans for a strike tomorrow understand. I know it will inconvenience many people, but far less than the erosion of public services that the trade unions try to protect. However, I would encourage union leaders and activists, to more creatively about the future action days. Why do not reflect the successful "work-in" from previous campaigns? Teachers could run alternative curriculum, restoring their enthusiasm for the things they brought into the classroom, but which have abolished by successive governments. Social workers could devote their day to tackle the difficult problems of the most difficult individual client in any office. Tax inspectors were able to identify and to solve the longest-standing dispute in their area. Teachers could provide interesting public sessions on their topic. Court officials could work together with community groups to the complexity of the law and how to explain it to their advantage.

It just takes a little imagination, and builds on the best, give what these people already. And it certainly would be a whole series of positive, supportive stories instead of the truculent and poor coverage in the media, we can expect to see on Friday.

• Our band, Asbo Derek, are fully in support of tomorrow's strike action, will be on the picket lines and have consistently campaigned against cuts, the victimisation of public sector workers, and the coalition government's attempt to destroy the public sector in the UK (Which artist will dare break this deathly cultural silence, 29 June). It's not our fault that we weren't invited to Glastonbury!

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The vote in the Greek parliament on the mid-term bill is underway. Each of the 300 MPs will individually be asked what their vote is.

For your guidance, "ai" means "yes" in Greek, but "ochi" (sounds like okay) means "no".

1.30pm:

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Voting in parliament is due to begin shortly on the mid-term bill

Papandreou, the Greek Parliament: ". It is crucial that no family goes through the consequences of a total economic collapse"

13:06: Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O'Neill was on Bloomberg just now. He said this is not just a sovereign debt crisis but a wider crisis about the "structure and leadership" of the eurozone. Asked what plan B might be if the Greek vote fails, he said: "Pray: Plan B is pray".

12:50: Here are a few interesting comments from below the line.

The first is on the police tactics and what likely happened after the vote.

12.23pm:, Guardian and Observer economics correspondent, and

You may be interested in the likely consequences for the Greek economy, the eurozone or for those holding Greek debt. Please post your questions in the comments section.

The Greek stock index is also buoyant and up over 3% on the day now. That 'sa 10% profit \ from Monday's lows.

However, there 'sa long history of "buy the rumor, sell the fact," in the Square Mile, the rally could burn out as soon as the verdict actually in. Especially since the world economy has its own problems with a stalling growth across the board. Other weaker
Members of the euro zone under pressure (Spain) or have already tried to implement unpopular austerity measures his own [Ireland, Portugal].

When Josh Raymond of City Index, put him in his latest trading note:

There is no end to the crisis, but vote yes. We still have to pass through the implementation of the package to see tomorrow and Greece will receive the next tranche of loans, when both factors would be expected to happen as a mere formality of today 's method. The markets have seen a strong bout of profit this week but still is somewhat severe headwinds for the global economy such as government bonds spread within the euro zone, the potential for a slowdown in Chinese growth and the end of the QE2 in the U.S.. To this end, we should pay attention to the potential for sharp bouts of profit taking.

The Guardian has video of the build-up to the vote, including the views of ordinary Greek people.

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Greek journalist Matina Stevis just tweeted news of fresh clashes:

10.54am:Alexander Marquardt, ABC News has a picture of protesters spread Maalox, upset stomach, on their faces, written to protect against tear gas.

10.42: The Guardian 's Helen Smith

Municipal employees have been working overtime to clean the square – hosing it down and in some cases painstakingly removing graffiti – but the detritus of battle is everywhere: in the shattered windows of shops and chain stores, the chipped marble facades of hotels, smashed pavements and broken entrances to metro stations. Even the trees are burned.

• France's CAC-40 was up 1.1%at 3,895.66.

Tax increases include

• A solidarity levy: At 1% for income between € 12,000 (€ 10,800) and 20,000 € per year, 2% for incomes between € 20,000 and € 50,000, 3% for those on € 50,000 to € 100,000, and 4% for People with an income of € 100,000 or more. The legislature and public office holders will pay a 5% rate.

• A lower tax-free limit: People will now pay tax on income over 8,000 € per year, compared to € 12,000. This basic tax rate will be set at 10%, with exceptions for persons under 30, over 65 and disabled.

• VAT: The VAT rate for restaurants and bars went from 13% to a new top tax rate of 23%. This rate covers already many products in stores, including clothing, alcohol, electronic goods and some professional services.

• Violent clashes before Parliament before the vote
• Government bill expected to pass through the medium
• Opposition MP says she will vote to adopt austerity measures law

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13.44:

The Press Project has a useful tool for following the vote, although it appears to be running a bit slow at the moment. It is also livestreaming from parliament.

Here's a quick summary of events so far today:

Jonathan Rugman, Channel 4 News foreign correspondent, is tweeting the address to parliament by the Greek prime minister George Papandreou.

The police were pretty disgraceful (as usual) throwing rocks at groups of protesters (not 'anarchists' people of all ages) and generally lashing out and trying to 'kettle' protestors into smaller side streets so they could then throw the tear gas at them. Their 'orders' were clear.

The prevailing mood in Greece right now is one of blind anger: people say we don't want any more bailouts just leave us alone.

Teargas is still being fired but thousands of people have been driven out of Syntagma Square.

Heather Stewart The Observer 's business editor to answer all your questions about what this result means.

You may be interested in the likely consequences for the Greek economy, the euro zone, or hold for those Greek debt. Please post your questions in the comments.

12.14: BBC Newsnight 's Paul Mason, in Athens, tweets, that many non-violent demonstrators were caught up in the clashes.

12.07pm:

This makes it all the more likely that the bill will be passed.

Massive teargassing and hand grenades thrown by riot police against the crowd at Syntagma sq now

11.17: Live streaming is Dailymotion.com Syntagma Square again today:

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11.08: Only one member of the ruling (Socialist) PASOK party will probably vote against the bill - not enough given his place, that prevent a five-seat PASOK majority in the 300-member legislature - Alexandros Athanassiadis socialist deputy, the Associated Press said.

10.42am:

10.36am:

We have never really had a debate in this country about what went wrong. In Portugal, the new government has come and said that there will be a difficult two years ahead. We do not have that kind of discussion here ...

For Parliament to vote against this package would be a crime - the country would vote for his suicide.

10.23: My colleague Graeme Wearden

Spending cuts

Trade Unionists have vowed to stop MPs getting into parliament for the vote but security in the centre of Athens is high. There are fears of more violent crashes after at least 46 people were injured, most of them police, yesterday as rioters pelted police with chunks of marble and ripped up paving stones, and authorities responded with repeated volleys of teargas and stun grenades.

• PMQs - Exchanges and my verdict
• Lunchtime summary

• Cameron has said that MPs must do more to pay for their own retirement.

• Theresa May, the Interior Minister, has said she is considering emergency legislation following to say after a court ruling that the police did not release suspects on police bail for more than four days.

• Kenneth Clarke, the justice secretary, has said that stabbing a burglar would be acceptable under the government's plans to clarify the law on self-defence."If an old lady was that she 's an 18-year-old burglar in her house and takes her with a kitchen knife, and it is in it, she has committed no crime and we will make the \ clear," he said . Clarke made his remarks before the start of the second reading debate on legal aid, sentencing and punishment of crimes bill. But Downing Street has admitted that the clarification of self-defense laws have not necessarily included in the bill. Officials are "still going strong, exactly who she \ clarify the position," said the Prime Minister 's spokesman in the last hour. (See 10.41.)

• Michael Gove, the education minister, has proposed that the majority of all students learn math, until they are 18. In a speech to the Royal Society, he said: "I think we should set a new goal for the education system so that within a decade the vast majority of pupils are studying maths right through to the age of 18." According to the Press Association, it is understood that for such a move to happen would require more teachers, and new courses aimed at teaching sixth-formers maths relevant to their lives and future qualifications, rather than relying on A-level maths. (See 11.50am.)

12.25pm:

12.18pm: Anne Marie Morris, a Conservative, says water bills in Devon are higher than anywhere else, even though family incomes are below average in the county.

Cameron says a lot of thought has gone into how the arrangements will work when repatriation takes place at Brize Norton.

12.13:

Cameron says he's in this search. In his view, Hizb ut-Tahrir claims that go far beyond what is acceptable made. But the government has to act within the law.

12.13: Asked if he ask for Tory MPs with the tax relief on private health insurance obligation, says Cameron: "The short answer is no, I agree with don 't \."

Miliband points out that Cameron cannot guarantee that people won't be rehired to do their own jobs. People will notice that he can't be trusted with the NHS.

Cameron says people will notice that Miliband could not ask about strikes because he is in the pocket of the unions. And Miliband could not ask about Greece because his plans would turn Britain into Greece. "He's got to talk about the micro because he can't talk about the macro".

12.01pm: David Cameron says he does not think there is "any case" for strikes tomorrow. He wants to see "as many mums and dads as possible" able to take their children to school.

Michael Gove

Labour wants to keep indeterminate sentences.

Labour 's position is clear - offenders will be rehabilitated and pose no risk to the public and proper procedures must be followed prior to their release. We accept no plans to water down the protection, have the public through an indefinite sentences for public protection (IPP).

And work is, the cuts to legal aid to meet.

Deny those most in need of access to courts by social welfare legal aid is not only unconscionable, but also economically unsound. Receive legal advice escalating housing, welfare and prevent debt problems has been shown that the money to save the taxpayers further down the line.

11.19:

It is true that Margaret Thatcher defeated the unions. It is also true that this followed dozens of disputes in which the Government was defeated by the unions. That, in fact, was the more usual outcome ...

So, irrespective of how heinous their crimes or the danger they present to the public, Britain has no power to expel them.

Chris Huhne

We should head off the challenge of price and supply uncertainty by the oil hook.
So we can to protect our customers from high prices, and our economy from price shocks - which is not only the rise but may trigger a recession ...
Protect ourselves from price shocks is not the work of a day, a week or a year, we must liberate our economy from carbon addiction over the long haul.

It is no surprise that France is the European country with the least reliance on fossil fuels, and enjoys some of the lowest prices – 9.4 per cent below ours.

Government approval: -25

Clarke tells what happened to them was appalling. But lawyers have to cross-examine witnesses. The judge could have stepped in if he thought the interview was going over the top. You can not stop an angry defense of defendants assembly.

Clarke says Davis has to put that in a bad way. He feels strongly about this, he says.

08:19: Davis asks indeterminate sentences.

8.14am:

Police chiefs outside London are also preparing for crime to start rising, particularly in the major urban areas. One chief constable said: "We are just about holding the line, but there are clear signs that burglary and robbery are on the turn." Another said: "I don't think the rubber has hit the road yet."

And then there 's still a lot more. Here 'sa list.

8.45 Clock: Paul Burstow , The health minister, a speech on social care.

Clock 9:

As usual, I'll be covering all the breaking political news, as well as looking at the papers and bringing you the best politics from the web. I'll post a lunchtime summary at around 1pm, and an afternoon one at about 4pm

• Libya releases issued arrest warrants against Gaddafi
• Syria announces appointment of 'National Dialogue'
• New Gaza flotilla sailing by in the face of Israeli threats set
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Foreign Secretary William Hague said that the UK works closely with Turkey to Syria and Libya. Hague tweeted this before a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu.

Saudi Arabia is to withdraw most of its security forces from Bahrain from next Monday, Reuters reports.

The first option is Gaddafi's innner circle. They can implement the arrest warrants. They have a choice: be part of the problem and risk being prosecuted or they can be part of the solution work together with other Libyans and stop the crimes.

Rebel spokesman Guma el-Gamaty claims rebel fighters have taken a barracks in the Western Mountains today.

In Brega: 1 Command and Control Node.



In vicinity of Zuwarah: 3 Fire Control Radars.

1.38pm:

• Yemen 's president Ali Abdullah Saleh appears to be preparing to make a TV address from Saudi Arabia, but reports differ on when the speech will be broadcast. A UN team has arrived in the capital Sana'a to investigate allegations human rights abuses.

• Pro-Palestinian activists claim that one of the boats in a new Gaza flotilla was sabotaged ahead of the planned launch of the convoy.

13:31:

The 10-day mission has the permission of Yemen's foreign ministry.

12.34pm:

But in an interview with Spiegel earlier this month, defence minister Thomas de Maiziere insisted Germany had been right to abstain.

He insisted that Germany is not the "good dig" category of the NATO members, Gates showed last month heard, as he said, there are two categories of NATO partners: those who fight and those wells to dig.

12.22: Yesterday 's meeting of opponents of the independent Syrian Regime suspect and irrelevant, a Syrian dissident, argues on Comment is free.

Why did the government whip Brooks Newmark meet Syria's president Assad yesterday? The Foreign Office has stressed that Newmark's trip does not have government backing.

If the Foreign Office did authorise this trip it should have been reported to Parliament when William Hague spoke on the region last week. If it was not authorised by the Foreign Office then who is in charge of government foreign policy and contacts with dictators with blood on their hands?

Egypt

10.16: As soon as a report emerges about Yemen 's President Saleh others would come to disagree.

Earlier today it was reported that Saleh's TV address could be aired today. Now an official told AFP that his appearance will be broadcast "after Thursday".

Believe it when you see him.

09:58:

The pro-Palestinian website Electronic Intifada quoted flotilla spokesman Mattias Gardell as saying:

State TV said Saleh would outline reforms, according to the Chinese news agency Xinhua.

Syria

• President Bashar al-Assad met with visiting two Westerners, the British Conservative MP Brooks Newmark and U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich, the first such meeting since the uprising began. The Foreign Office issued a declaration that Newmark had traveled to Syria without government support.

• allowed to enter during a visit from Sky News, one of the few news organizations, under strong restrictions, to tell a town near Damascus, Assad trailer pushed by a man. "This is just a game for you sat" activists say he was later arrested.

• A Syrian army defector told the Guardian that the troops ordered to fire on unarmed demonstrators in the southern city of Deraa.

Wasid, a 20-year-old conscript, said the reality was very different claims as state TV that armed groups in the southern city of Deraa terrorized.

Once we got there, the officers told us not to the men with guns to shoot. They said they [the gunmen] were with us. I could 't believe what I was hearing. It was all a lie.

Have some of Germany 's football players a more radical approach, taking part in a shoot for Playboy magazine, which caused some consternation, I hear. I can 't really see the problem with him. Male soccer players to have similar photo shoots over the years: it has all become an integral part of the rise of the celebrity footballer.

I 've recently with my old Liverpool team-mate Robbie Fowler reunited - we' re doing our coaching badges together over the summer - and chats with him memories of the old days has brought. In many ways we were the catalysts for all these superstar footballers nonsense, because it shows the great desire for order footballers in magazines and on television. Back then, if you weren 't in FHM and Loaded, you were out of the loop.

Many of us have male modeling - I have Armani and Eric Cantona had a go on the catwalk for Paco Rabanne and over the years, there have been many footballers modeling underwear in sexy poster campaignsfrom David Beckham to Freddie Ljungberg. Promote last year at the World Cup, Didier Drogba and Cristiano Ronaldo appeared on the cover of a magazine to gather just down their pants and show their sex appeal.

Germany 's football players posing in sexy Strip in order to promote themselves and their sport is only part of the advertising for this World Cup. The marketing for the tournament was phenomenal - the organizers sold 700,000 tickets, and many of the games are already sold out, including the finale - as the sport is hardly relying on sexy images to promote themselves.

Orange Revolution leader faces ban from political office, if found guilty, in the event that they orchestrated Yanukovych claims

Her distinctive round braid has been replaced by a loose furl of blonde hair, but the imperturbable gaze and the stinging rhetoric, the old one.

The Curb Your Enthusiasm star says, the British comedy was his touchstone. Now he is 's too, to try his personal blend of pathos and vulgarity in the audience here. He hopes that she just him

"If you react badly to something, we will discuss it" The mischievous kindness to his native unscrupulous Curb Your Enthusiasm character -. Jeff Greene, Larry David and accomplice Manager - Jeff Garlin, addresses the crowd at the Upright Citizens Brigade, Hollywood 's hot spot improvisation. It 's performances to fine-tune a hectic indeed for his series of shows in London' s Soho Theatre, and he enjoys the absurdity invites the audience to waste, how it performs. Nobody takes him to the offer - they are all enjoying themselves too much.

Garlin is noticeably slimmer than his blobular Curb physique, the result of a "get lean and go green" campaign detailed in his 2010 memoir My Footprint: Carrying the Weight of the World. But even after two and a half years without fast food and sugar, his 6ft 1in frame still houses a big build to match his big, husky voice. His features have shrunk into sharper focus, though, and with his close-cropped brown hair and black retro-geek glasses, Garlin now resembles a supersized Jewish Elvis Costello.

In his standup, Garlin human pathos mines - mostly his own. Whether he talks about his ingenious strategy for hiding the fact that he \ a whole tube of refrigerated cookie dough, or the time it the Sleeping Beauty Castle went to Disneyland eaten to raise his young son's foreskin in the ditch, Garlin Twins vulgarity with sensitivity and show how our dignity and our best intentions are hamstrung by shortcomings.

At the Upright Citizens Brigade, Garlin will start to heal in a funny bit about blow jobs for a cancer to bring the disarmament of straight male viewers to a hitherto unexplored willingness to perform fellatio. Gesturing around the stage, the crowd recognizes Garlin 's laugh and claimed his room at the same time. "I always say that the reason to make it easier for people is my job 's pain. But now both my parents have cancer, and in the last few months I' m doing standup more than I did in years. And it 's easing my pain. "

The public spaces on a sensitive hush to acknowledge that perhaps Garlin

The next day, we are sitting in his Los Angeles office, a small, spartan room hung with 60s TV comedy stills, a framed Radiohead poster (he is friends with the band) and a board covered in scene breakdowns for a film he is writing. A leather recliner for napping and meditation hulks in the corner.

Of a non-Pixies gig Mesopotamian ziggurat to remember their greatest moment Guardian critic of inspiration in their respective fields

To enter this year 's competition

Pop: Alexis Petridis

Can you see any gig as a critic always match the ones you saw as a teenager? Oddly, going to a concert when I was 17 to work harder than writing reviews has ever been. It was not only always to London, but lie to my parents about where I went was to my friend 's parents about where my parents thought I would, bunking off school, and then convincing someone of the 18 watching the bar go in my name.

But none of that counted the night I saw the Pixies supported by My Bloody Valentine, in September 1988. It 's not every night you will see probably the two most important guitar bands of the era on the same stage at the height of its power: The Pixies had just released their incredible second album, Surfer Rosa, while My Bloody Valentine, the released had amazing single You Made Me Realise.

I must have about 20 books about Goya now, including the tiny paperback I bought at the time. It's a useless book – pictures too small, colours all wrong – but I kept it. Another book is Goya's Last Portrait, a play by the critic John Berger. A few years ago, Berger and I had a long talk about that dog Goya painted, the one that could be drowning in quicksand or might just be sticking his nose up over a hill to sniff the sky.

I remember wondering why Goya's paintings meant so much to me when I knew nothing about art and had never been anywhere, least of all to Madrid. Maybe that show only became important later, because of things that happened in my life. Many roads lead back to a kid looking at Goya and understanding nothing.

In my time as a critic, there have been many films that have made me want to punch the air with joy (and a few that made me want to punch a brick wall). But the film that I come back to, over and over, is Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love, a beautiful, sad, sexy, mysterious movie that came out in 2000, when I'd been in this job for less than a year.

I know I've got some things wrong. At one point engages Hirst (Richardson) into a lengthy reminiscence with Spooner (Gielgud). I took it as real rather than a parodic fantasy. But I intuitively that the game is a mirror image of Pinter 's had their own fears: cut off that Spooner, the seedy little poet, was the man, he could have been, and Hirst, the literary celebrity of life, was the figure was he afraid of becoming.

What I remember is language, especially the crackling comic vitality and sombre poetry of Pinter 's. In the mouth of Richardson, who was all Spring-Heeled exuberance, and Gielgud, who, like some dodgy downmarket, WH Auden saw, bounced Pinter 's records from the walls like a ball in a squash court. In the play 's stunning final moments, there was a sense of Hirst starts to crawl unburdened his death. Or at least what Pinter aptly calls it a no man's land 's Country ", which never moves, which never changes, which will never be older, but which remains forever, icy and silent". This struck me as a theatrical poetry at its best: distilled, precise, yet infinitely mysterious.

Trying to pin down a Pinter play at first sight was exhilarating, like stepping into a ring with a champion boxer: one ran the risk of being knocked out.

Dance: Judith Mackrell

It was a Royal Ballet matinee in April 2001, and the hair started tingling on the neck, I realized I was witnessing the launch of a great career. Alina Cojocaru was just 19 and carrying her first Giselle, a role that challenges even the most experienced dancers. In act, she a naive country girl who broke her heart by playing the aristocratic love rat Albrecht, in act two, she's a ghost, her dancing as transparent as air. Cojocaru has more than dance both roles with fascinating beauty: they made you believe, they had performed Giselle in some other, earlier life.

I have seen more technically brilliant performances (though in act two, was Cojocaru 's so incredibly exquisite dancing, her feet seemed to barely touch the ground), but I've never seen a dancer living the role with such intensity. In the mad scene, Giselle \ leads' s death, Cojocaru 's body was so broken with pain that you weren' t sure that they are acting.

• Roman Abramovich is considering about € 15 million release fee from Porto
• Chelsea hope, new manager \ name 'in the next few days'

Andr? Villas-Boas has emerged as a prime candidate to be the Chelsea manager, with Roman Abramovich, the owner, to consider whether the cost of € 15 million (? 13.2 million) release clause in the shipping coach.

After Chelsea released a statement that they appoint to succeed Carlo Ancelotti in the coming days, said a key advisor to Abramovich: "Villas-Boas is definitely a candidate for the talks are still underway to see who replaces Ancelotti \ .. "

Reports in Portugal suggested that the 33-year-old has already Porto informed of his decision to leave for Chelsea and that he take charge in the immediate future, with Villas-Boas earn ? 5 million per season salary in the vicinity of what Jose Mourinho earned during his tenure at the west London club. A newspaper, corn Futebol, claimed that Porto will officially announce that Villas-Boas, once leaving Chelsea to pay the € 15 million release clause.

Chelsea have also been in negotiations with Guus Hiddink about the Dutchman returning to the club he briefly managed in 2009, considering him for either the coach's job or the sporting director role – should he take on the latter then there would also be room for Villas-Boas to take a position at the club. "Roman definitely likes Guus and Guus has a strong interest in Chelsea," the adviser added.

"My future, as you know, is completely linked to Porto. I do not know of any official interest from other clubs. The speculation is normal with managers and players around the world," he said then. But the lure of managing one of Europe's elite clubs, with the prospect of having access to a budget from Abramovich that offers a real chance of winning the Premier League and Champions League may prove difficult to turn down.

This is the context in which we talk – or don't talk – about death. Legal types still use "passing over", which I find creepy and ghostly. Each profession has its own discourse and some medics are honest to the point of brutality. The best doctors I have encountered have been at the worst of times. Those in the hospice where my mother died made no pretence, and therefore ensured enough diamorphine for her to be unconscious. After the torture of hospital where "palliative care" was a theory not a practice, this was a relief.

Making preparation for one's dying, however, has now become bizarrely politicised, as the reaction to Terry Pratchett's extraordinary film, Choosing to Die, has shown. We saw Peter Smedley, who had motor neurone disease, go to Dignitas in Swtizerland, drink poison and die. Sure, he and his incredible wife were all stiff, upper-crust charm, but they were fearless, as was the film.

The ideal remains "slipping away". Some do. My nana died in her sleep. My grandad's watch stopped at the exact time. Once, on a bus, the conductor asked me to nudge the woman next to me as we had reached the last stop, and indeed she had. I could not wake her. Nor could the ambulance men. So she had died next to me, by which I was embarrassed. It wasn't till someone else started boasting about seeing a dead body did I realise that I had seen one. Callow, yes. Uncomprehending, yes.

Not wanting to die on a bus was my main reaction. It's a bit undignified, and all that resuscitation in public? No thanks! Now I have lived a bit more, I simply do not want to die in agony or waste away. Please don't tell me it's not like that, as experience tells me different.

Rolling coverage of the day 's political developments as they happen

13:52: My colleague Mike White has published its verdict on the Cameron press conference. Cameron '\ on the top of his game, "says Mike. "Many contradictions smoothed out to be much pandering to the redtop agenda (but not too much) and additional public spending, but all of it handled skillfully by the man in smart dark blue suit and matching tie."

1.41pm: For detailed coverage of the criminal justice reforms, do read the legal aid and sentencing bill live blog that we're running this afternoon. My colleagues Maya Wolfe-Robinson, Owen Bowcott and Alan Travis are doing most of the work, but I will be contributing later there too.

You 've a link to a copy of the new legal aid, sentencing and punishment of the perpetrators written statement. But, as Alan points out, among them doesn 't some of the measures announced by David Cameron this morning - suggesting that they agreed only at the last minute.

13:34: Sadiq Khan

12.14: A government that used to sound distinctly liberal in the field of law enforcement now sounds rather hard-liners. David Cameron hasn 't just dropped the plan for 50% discount rate. He has also in the mandatory prison sentences for anyone caught any threatened with a knife, a new law making a crime and squats a "Tony Martin 'thrown to the law on reasonable household use of force to protect yourself from a burglar. Without having to have seen the fine print, it 's hard to know how much impact that these actions. (The last time that I have the "Tony Martin 'problem was, I was told that the law already allows the use of reasonable force in self-defense anyway, and that any attempt would clarify the rules for this little difference make.) But, rhetorically, the difference is very strong. Cameron has been under pressure to sack Kenneth Clarke. Today, it sounds as if he 's take the job given to the editor of the Sun.

I 'll publish further details shortly.

12.01: Cameron takes his final question, from a Welsh journalist.

On the Barnett formula, he says this is a complicated issue. But the government is going to set up a Calman-style commission for Wales.

That's it. I'll post a summary soon.

11:46: Cameron is asked about immigration.

Q: Can you clarify the Remark You Made yesterday about the Liberal Democrats' blocking of your immigration plans?

Cameron says the government has a good policy. He cares about this. He wants it to "drop off 'agenda, as has happened in the 1980s. Damian Green, the minister for immigration, makes a very good job. He is one of the" silent hero "of the government.

Q: Would the UK suffer if Greece left the €?

On sentencing, he says the Ministry of Justice will save the ?130m it will not get from 50% sentence discounts from other parts of its ?8bn budget.

Cameron says up to now the probation service has not been hit as hard as other parts of the department. But it has not had its budget ringfenced.

Cameron says that he did not accept. The government has decided to act, he says, referring to the deficit, welfare reform and academies. Often people say the government is trying to do too many things.

I don 't make no apology for listening to as you go and make sure that you do things right ... Being strong is about the willingness to admit that you do not get everything right the first time.

If you learned how to improve policies, but said nothing for fear that it would not be the guide. It would otherwise be the case, he says.

11.30 Clock: Cameron is now in question.

Cameron says he takes responsibility for what has happened.

Cameron says he is announcing a new review covering this today. Legislative proposals will be brought forward later this year.

11.20: David Cameron has opened his press conference.

He begins by saying it 'sa proud day because he is hosting a lunch for the Queen. It 's to the Duke of Edinburgh \ mark's 90th Birthday.

He turns to his sentence. He wants to make sure that people are sure that the police are responsible and that prisons are effective.

Half of the prisoners to leave within a year relapsed. Around 10% are foreigners. It 'sa "enormously expensive" and it does not work.

First, prison must protect the public.

In the last few days I have a number of Tory MPs on the severity of these problems to determine spoken, and I certainly sense a lot of concern among the loyal generally backbenchers along exactly the same line as that described by Tim 's source .

"If I get a flood of e-mails about a controversial topic now I leave it for seven days, before you answer, because it 's an increased chance that the line will change," said one MP with whom I have taken on the matter.

Another is using a longer timescale: "I let the letters and emails on anything where there's a hint of U-turn pile up for thirty days. Frankly I don't want to make myself look stupid by defending a policy only for it to change a few days later".

Cameron will have to show that he 's still in the grip. We 'll be hearing from him soon.

10:43: You can all today 's Guardian Politics stories here. And submitted the whole policy of stories yesterday, including some in today 's paper, click here.

• Helen Warrell in the Financial Times (subscription) says an academic study suggests that government policies will fail to get net migration down to below 100,000 a year.

But analysts at the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford have calculated that Home Office's policies – reducing immigration for workers, students and their families from outside the European Union and making it harder for migrants to settle in the UK – would cut net migration by a total of 75,000, leaving a deficit of 67,000.

Last week, however, I spent an afternoon with a citizens' jury of mothers convened to finalise the ideas on family that will now go forward for consultation. These women, from a political cross-spectrum, had been asked to bring an object symbolising their daily lives. The most popular were their children's games consoles, symbolising an atomised society, and stories about rising gas and energy prices they had clipped from newspapers ...

The two are both outsiders, with the impatience that brings. She was not only the first woman PM, at a time when that seemed equally improbable; she also had an implacably restless temperament. So too does Mr Hilton, whose father fled Hungary in 1956, and who is even more impatient than she was.

He is driven to fury by the waste in Britain of vast sums on social projects that only add to social misery. No socialist can fulminate more pyrotechnically about the destruction of life chances under the present system and the need for fundamental change to liberate human potential. An old-fashioned Tory will assume that human endeavours often end. By those criteria, Mr Hilton is not a Tory. His eccentricity of deportment makes him conspicuous, and others suspicious. People are simply not used to discalced Conservatives. In the Middle Ages, those who were uneasy about events but did not want to criticise the monarch often denounced the king's evil counsellors. Some Tories who are unhappy about aspects of government policy have cast Mr Hilton in that role. But in Downing Street, his restlessness is greatly valued.

But he did not rule out proposing its abolition is not in the party 's 2015 election manifesto.

How can we sustained support for the free market economy that we all believe? Sometimes you have to don 't it by reducing taxes for the very top, when other people are facing real economic hardships.

• But he ruled out returning to the "criminal" tax rates for top earners in the 1970s.

New Labour has led to a series of innovations for the Labour Party. One of them wants to keep me is that strong relationships with industry. I want to celebrate the creation of wealth in this country. We do not go back to the penal tax rates in the 1970s under a future Labour government. That's not what we're about, because we are a country, the company celebrates and rewards those who work hard and be good.

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From Sadiq Khan , The shadow justice secretary

We 're in danger blame all this on Ken Clarke. We 've expressed concerns about these plans in the past six months, since December, and what Ken Clarke has been saying consistently - I' ve put this on the floor of the house, 'You have the support of Cabinet in these plans \? '- He said \ consistently'. The Cabinet is behind me, is the most important INIST \ behind me '

What has happened at the eleventh hour is David Cameron has realised that his government is appearing to be out of touch with ordinary people around the country.

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, chief executive of the Law Society

What we have yet to hear from the government is how they are proposing you and I will get access to justice if we can't get legal aid. We are in the time of austerity; I note however that the Atlee government was also in a time of austerity back in 1949 and principles and values that they saw as important and worth paying for still it seems to me apply today.

(left), the Unison general secretary, told the Guardian last week that the strike his union was planning over cuts to public sector pensions would be "the biggest since the general strike". Today he said it could go on indefinitely. According to PoliticsHome, this is what Prentis told BBC News from Manchester, where Unison is holding a conference.

10.15am: A range of experts give evidence to the Commons transport committee about the High Speed Rail project.

10.30am:

Approximately 11 clock: The Justice Department released the justice bill In addition to a written statement to "proposals for the reform of punishment, rehabilitation, sentencing and legal aid".

11.15: David Cameron hosts a press conference in Downing Street.

1pm: Cameron hosted a lunch for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at Downing Street to the Duke 's 90th Birthday celebration.

George Osborne

• Vancouver citizens cleaning up after hockey riots
• Lionel Messi pulls PlayStation sex and alcohol

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'King' James falls on his Dirk

Another tough week for LeBron James as the Miami Heat won the NBA championship, which has Dallas Mavericks and the backlash that bubbling well ahead, as "The decision" - his joining highly publicized move to the heat from the Cleveland Cavaliers - For cooking, finally how everyone outside Miami reveled in the sheer amount of positive glee James had produced in a short year.

Immediately popular with a wide range of the US press was re-running the footage from the Heat welcome party for James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, who were to form the new Miami dream team.

Wade refers to himself and his new team-mates as "arguably the best trio to ever play the game of basketball". Then, James ups the ante by claiming, "The way we're gonna challenge each other to get better in practice, once the game starts, I mean it's gonna be easy." Before letting loose with a proclamation that has been waiting to be shot down ever since. Winning many championships was the purpose, said James, as he counted how many titles they would take: "Not two, not three, not four, not five not six, not seven!" Not one, so far, as it turned out.

Ohio, home to the Cleveland side James had forsaken, joined in as well. State Governor John Kasich, in a dig at the wording of "The Decision", praised Nowitzki, who "chose to keep his talents in Dallas by renewing his contract with the Mavericks in 2010 and forgoing free agency." Then the Mavericks for "the loyalty, integrity and teamwork they demonstrated throughout the season". Before issuing a resolution declaring the Dallas side were to be made "Honorary Ohioans".

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she would go after the miscreants – "If you are responsible, we will hold you responsible" – the citizens themselves took to the streets with brooms and buckets.

Playboy model Claudia Ciardone, lingerie model Andrea Rinc?n and former wag Sabrina Ravelli.

The 23-year-old Argentinian has so far managed to avoid involvement in a scandal, and this may also be an effort that \ his country 's push to spark a little conversation during the closed season will be.

Messi himself did nothing to promote it. It was like sex at the party and it was almost certainly some alcohol, but he had nothing with which: "We just danced and then we played some PlayStation," he said.

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Bears make bid to throw off the goat curse

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The document was prompted by an exchange between a player and a fan that ended with the former suggesting the latter "go fuck yourself" and concludes with an extraordinary list of examples of other colourful late-nineteenth century vernacular.

Attacked by a Haitian mob of Gaddafi \ abducted 's troops killed in Afghanistan ... Who 'd be a war photographer?

• In pictures: the life of a war photographer (contains some graphic images)

Adam Ferguson, Afghanistan, 2009

I was among the first on the scene. The Afghan security forces normally shut down a suicide attack like this pretty quickly. I could get to the epicenter of the explosion. It was carnage, there were points, flames came out of the building. I remember very scared because it was still popping and hissing and small explosions, and collapsing the building. It was still very fresh and there was a risk of another bomb. It was one of those situations where you have fear aside and concentrate on the job at hand: to monitor the situation and documented.

This woman was accompanied by the building and round the desolate street corner. It embodies the whole spirit - this older woman caught in the middle of this ridiculous and tragic event. I wish I could have figured out how their lives unravel, but once the scene was closed down, I ran back to the office to file.

Alvaro Ybarra Zavala, Congo, November 2008

I was deep in Soweto when I saw a man being attacked by ANC combatants. The month before, I'd seen a guy beaten to death – my first experience of real violence – and hadn't shaken the feeling of guilt that I had done nothing to stop it. "No pictures," someone yelled. I told them I'd stop shooting if they stopped killing him. They didn't. As the man was set on fire, he began to run. I was framing my next shot when a bare-chested man came into view and swung a machete into his blazing skull. I tried not to smell the burning flesh and shot a few more pictures, but I was losing it and aware that the crowd could turn on me at any time. The victim was moaning in a low, dreadful voice as I left. I got in my car and, once I turned the corner, began to scream. You're not just a journalist or a human being, you're a mixture of both, and to try to separate the two is complicated. I've often felt guilty about my pictures. I worked in South Africa for years and was shot three times. The fourth and final injury, in Afghanistan in 1999, wasn't the worst, but I decided enough was enough. I was looking to settle. Nineteen months later, I met my wife.

This is the morning after a night out, the four men were dead and wounded 10th There was heavy fighting, and I was very scared. I discovered a dead Chechen four feet from me when I got up at night. They watch movies, read books, anything you imagine. But if you are against something, it 's not \ like in the movies. We started as a 60 and came back 30 - one of two people injured or killed. I was lucky.

Once it got light, I have pictures. This is the first thing I saw. The guy with the bandage on her head has lost his friends. He has fought all night long. I don 't pity, but at the same time she took me with them and did everything to protect me. Without them, I could 't have made history. I was the only witness. It 's very complicated.

Mads Nissen, Libya, February 2011

I got into Ajdabiya shortly after its fall. The rebels had just been crazy with moving and the locals, shooting into the air. Bodies of soldiers lying per-Gaddafi, starting to stink like the sun was higher. The fire from the tank was incredibly strong and I was worried it could explode at any moment. Suddenly this guy jumped on it. I 'm not interested in pictures of burning tanks - I' m interested in people. I wanted the feeling of relief that everyone was recording and suddenly grasp. I'm as close as possible, only a few feet, and began to shoot, to count to five in my head. Then I got out. I had seen dead bodies, except that you want in the morgue and torn didn 't to the end of Sun I took a chance - I had that was why I was there to tell the story - but I made sure that I do not 't be too greedy.

Adam Dean, Pakistan, December 2007

As I approached the aftermath of the bomb, I struggled to compose myself. I was terrified and sickened, but kept telling myself just to concentrate and get it done so I could leave. I knew I had to frame the pictures so they weren't too graphic. The epicentre of the explosion was a pile of maybe a dozen limbless, charred, mangled bodies in pools of blood. This was one of the times I was most in danger, but there have been times in Afghanistan where I have felt more scared. This was over in seconds, but a firefight can go on for hours. The real worry is IEDs, though – when you go on patrol, every step could be your last. I'm 33 and I'm not sure I'd want to put myself in such risky situations when I'm older and perhaps have other people to consider.

It was 25 minutes before anybody could get to me. My cameras were on the ground, and as they grabbed me I had to lean down and pick them up. When we got to the local base, a medic said, "Hell, I can see right through you." As soon as I knew that I'd recover, I told my girlfriend I was going to go back out. The work I do is important and also, if I hadn't, it would mean I'd never really understood the risks in the first place.

The guy in the photo is shouting, "Don't take my fucking picture!" Sometimes, you look at images of war, and they're like a Hollywood producer's vision of what war is supposed to look like. There are very few pictures where you get a feel for how fucking awful it is, how desperate and urgent. I like that it's not a clean picture, that it's not well composed and you can't see everything that's happening. That's part of it. It's so messy. It's the closest I've come to capturing the chaos of combat.

Making this decision was a public act I have a lot of criticism. Bernard died later, and people said that I would give didn 't it, that I have helped him. But I could 't help him. For me to turn my back, that 's disrespectful.

Ami Vitale, Gaza, October 2000

I was photographing a funeral, and after most of the day with the women, I went to see, the body began worn in. A man in the procession to scream, "CIA" and pointed at me . I was surrounded by hundreds of angry men shouting in my face, grabbed me. I was terrified and thought ".. That's it I will die" I suddenly realized a mob. It 's no thinking, only passion.

A woman I spent 'd pull away the day with a managed me. When I got home, I sat and cried and cried - she saved my life. I stayed in Palestine, but was much more careful after that, have ever since. At that moment changed my perspective. No picture is worth it.