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MPs have voted to curb their pay, but they're keeping the allowances they get for furnishing their homes. A review by the Commons Members Estimate Committee had recommended the additional costs allowance (ACA) be replaced and an end to the so-called "John Lewis list" - the use of public money to pay for items like new kitchens and household goods such as TVs. However, MPs voted by a majority to keep them. Do you trust them to spend your money on themselves?

Plus: Should drug cheats be banned from the Olympics?

The build-up to the Beijing Olympics in a month's time has been dominated by Dwain Chambers' efforts to overturn his two-year Olympic ban for taking drugs. But, according to a British Olympic Association by-law, Chambers has also been banned from the Olympics for life. That life ban has now been challenged in the courts. Has he served his time, or are we right to say the Olympics is no place for a convicted drug cheat?

And: Should there be age ratings on children's books?

Publishers have announced plans to put age advisory labels on the covers of children's books, but it's been criticised by more than 2,000 people on a website - including some of our most prominent children's authors like JK Rowling.

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