Thrasher Mitchell: Sire, there are reports circulating that I called a policeman a “fucking pleb”.
Cameron: What of it? He probably was a pleb. Most policemen are.
From Raisa-gate to Hunt-gate and, er, pleb-gate, John Crace takes a condensed look at the year in Westminster.
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Gay marriage is all about love. The love of same-sex couples is just as real, strong and committed as that of married heterosexual men and women. Prohibiting same-sex marriage devalues and denigrates the love of lesbian and gay partners. It signifies our continuing second class legal status; to have separate laws for gay and straight people is a form of sexual apartheid.
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Public support for gay marriage is double the support secured by the Tories in last week’s local elections. If Cameron wants to win back lost votes, he should fast-track legislation for equal marriage rights.As Obama joins a global trend towards gay marriage, the UK should too - Peter Tatchell writes for Comment is Free
US first lady Michelle Obama and the prime minister’s wife Samantha Cameron attend a mini-Olympics event for children at American University’s Bender Arena in Washington
Give them a playground, let them make mistakes, and give them time: they’ll generate glorious failures and unprecedented moneyspinners. British ones. Which Cameron can proudly display on his shelf. If there’s room between Armageddon and his 26 copies of The King’s Speech. Charlie Brooker on Cameron’s advice for saving the British film industry
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Radiographers from the Royal Liverpool Hospital stand on the picket line with a skeleton they have named ‘Dave’.
Full gallery of pictures from public sector strike over pensions here - and live blog of the day of action can be found here.
Photograph: Government Art Collection
Nick Clegg and Samantha Cameron are among the political figures who are guest curating a new exhibition of works from the Government Art Collection. But what do their choices reveal about them? Art critic Jonathan Jones analyses their selections
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