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Lee Rigby named as victim of Woolwich attack

Drummer Lee Rigby. Photo: Ministry of Defence

The Ministry of Defence has named the solider killed in Woolwich yesterday as Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Rigby, 25 and father of… Continue reading

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David Cameron or his party - which are the real the loons? Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth - WPA Pool/Getty Images

Hunting the home counties for Conservatives’ ‘swivel-eyed loons'

The Westminster pundits have all been obsessing over Andrew Feldman’s alleged ‘swivel-eyed loons’ comment about the Tory party’s grass roots. But what about the ‘loons’ themselves? Few in SW1 bothered… Read more

George Osborne's property bubble will lead to disaster

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Imagine, if you can bear it, that you are a first-time buyer in the UK. You go to look at a 500-square-foot box masquerading as a two-bedroom flat in an… Read more

Why does the BBC so love lefty journalists?

Tony Hall Is Named As The New Director General Of The BBC

My response to the appointment of Ian Katz, deputy editor of the Guardian, to the editorship of BBC2’s Newsnight has been one of disbelief and amusement. Of course there’s nothing… Read more

Congratulations, Rob Ford: you’ve finally made me despise you

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The first thing you see after leaving the baggage carousel at Toronto’s Pearson airport is an enormous photograph of Mayor Rob Ford. In it, the former high school football coach… Read more

Less alcohol, fewer drugs: how the British seem to be shedding their harmful habits

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Gripped by his habitual despair, the French novelist Gustave Flaubert wrote to a friend in 1872, ‘I am appalled at the state of society. I’m filled with the sadness that… Read more

Dan Brown's latest conspiracy theory - and the powerful people who believe it

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You know Inferno, the new Dan Brown novel, the one that’s had such fabulously bad reviews? Well, it’s not really about Dante’s Inferno at all. What it’s really about — spoiler… Read more

When the bloke in the bar turns out to be a paedophile

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To the British tabloids, he was ‘the Pied Piper of paedophiles’, the UK’s ‘most wanted child abuser’. But we all knew him as Willem: the fat, jolly, occasionally lecherous Dutchman… Read more

How to make money from spread betting

‘All spread-betting firms are bookies, whatever gravitas they may attempt to assume’

Well, there are two ways. You can own a chunk of a successful spread-betting firm or you can be a spread-better and get things right. Miraculously, I have managed to… Read more