The government is expected to use the Queen’s Speech to push ahead with House of Lords reform, despite opposition from many Conservative MPs.

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Lords reform ‘in Queen’s Speech’

CNN projects that Mitt Romney will win the New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware primaries. Romney's campaign casts his speech as a turning point.

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Romney: The race is on with Obama

New legislation to allow television cameras into courts in England and Wales are to be announced in the Queen’s Speech in May, according to reports.

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Court TV plan ‘in Queen’s speech’

Najva Sol remembers her anxiety three years ago when she arranged to meet her mother and father in a Rockville coffee shop to reveal a truth she had been keeping from them. She knew what she was going to say; she’d rehearsed her speech. But to her surprise, the then 21- year-old Muslim American discovered her parents already knew it all. Read full article > >

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In new book, Muslim American women tell their own love (and sex) stories

Infusing his speech with the type of language that has emerged in the Occupy protests, President Obama on Tuesday delivered his most pointed appeal yet for using taxes and regulations to level the economic playing field.

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Obama Strikes Populist Chord With Speech in Heartland

The Queen meets Australian actor Geoffrey Rush, who played the speech therapist who treated her father King George VI in the film The King’s Speech.

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Queen meets King’s Speech actor

Chris Huhne apologises to Theresa May for pointing out similarities between her speech, and one by UKIP leader Nigel Farage, to a journalist.

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Huhne sorry for May cat tip-off

A self-styled “lord” whose home was used for scenes from The King’s Speech has been jailed for a multimillion pound fraud, it can be revealed.

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Self-styled lord jailed for fraud

Ed Miliband vows to build a new kind of Britain in his speech to the Labour Party conference.

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The system has failed – Miliband

Energy Secretary Chris Huhne will say he is determined to “get tough” with the six biggest energy companies, in his speech to the Lib Dem conference.

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Huhne pledges energy price action

UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage accuses David Cameron of a “mass deception” over Europe, in his speech to the party’s autumn conference.

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UKIP: Tories misled voters on EU

Forty-eight years ago Sunday, when Martin Luther King Jr. was about to make his historic speech on the National Mall, I was huddled close to the statue of Abraham Lincoln, tapping on a portable typewriter, making last-minute changes to my own speech. As the newly elected chair of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, speaking at the March on Washington was one of my first important actions. Dr. King spoke tenth; I was sixth. Today, I am the last surviving speaker from the march. When I think back on that day, and the hundreds of thousands of people who responded to the call to march on Washington, there is no question that many things have changed. Then, Martin Luther King Jr. was a controversial figure taking risks so that his voice might be heard. Today, the mere mention of his speech — and its powerful “I have a dream” refrain — evokes hope for the future, stirring memories of the past and mandates for change, but the context in which Dr. King delivered those words was quite different. Read full article > >

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What would Martin Luther King Jr. say to President Obama?

President Obama’s speech on the Middle East and North Africa is being dismissed by his critics as more of the same, an indication of the inherent pessimism on all sides when it comes to US engagement with the region. Yet Obama’s speech demonstrated a humble and measured approach that could perhaps signal a shift in American policy towards the Mideast. Although there was no grand change in policy, the speech presented a fresh approach to dealing with the United States’ allies in the region. The President did not throw traditionally allied Arab leaders “under the bus,” but the message was clear: accept change and work toward reforms or the United States will side with the people against you. Perhaps the administration has now learned the lesson of the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, when an uncertain State Department wasn’t sure whether or not to fully back the protesters or try to mediate a solution to keep Mubarak in power, until the endgame was clear.

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Obama’s Move to a Populist Foreign Policy

British movie The King’s Speech is the big winner at this year’s National Movie Awards winning three prizes.

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King’s Speech wins trio of awards

President Obama struck many of the right notes on immigration reform in his speech Tuesday, delivered along the U.S.-Mexican border in El Paso, Texas.

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Opinion: Immigration timing suspicious