Sunday 7 September 2008

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Brown's sinking, but where are the alternatives?

Peter Hoskin

A handful of Labour ministers have tentatively signalled that they might have designs on the party leadership, but they're unwilling to follow-through and develop those signals into full-blown claims. The result? No alternatives have truly captured the imagination of Labour members or of voters more generally. And that could just about save Brown yet.

Escapist froth

In this week's issue

Labour’s punishment freaks are hounding honest citizens

Ross Clark says that far from keeping our streets safer or cleaner, the government’s new force of amateur policemen are ignoring the worst offenders and pursuing law-abiding innocents instead

Ross Clark

‘Whoever killed Benazir wants to kill me’

Christina Lamb interviews the husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari, who hopes to be named President of Pakistan this Saturday

Christina Lamb

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Arts

Top drama at bargain prices

Lloyd Evans

Lloyd Evans talks to the Donmar’s artistic director Michael Grandage about his Wyndham’s venture

Books

A chilly professional

Jane Ridley

The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby (by Angus Hawkins)

Politics

Politics

Fraser Nelson

Fraser Nelson reviews the week in politics

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