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Cameron injects some anger into a playful PMQs

Lloyd Evans

In a way it’s heartening to the PM getting so easily fired up. He may even enjoy these flashes of temper. But he doesn’t enjoy them half as much as Labour.

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Cameron gets tough with the eurozone

James Forsyth

Today’s PMQs will be remembered for one thing, Cameron saying that the eurozone had to ‘make up or it is looking at a potential break-up’. This is a distinct

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Englishmen rule

Leah McLaren

I discovered I was pregnant the same day I met the Queen. It was one of those lightless December afternoons when the sky clamps down on London like the lid

Night and Day

Spotify Sunday: The essential Bob Marley

David Rodigan

Here, to mark the release of the documentary Marley, are ten essential tracks by...  

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Shelf Life: Laurent Binet

The Spectator

The latest intellectual maverick to win the 2010 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman, Laurent Binet certainly isn't shy, especially when it comes to his literary tastes. A single paragraph

Books

Burroughs’s beat

Benjamin Eastham

William S. Burroughs is, alongside Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, the third part of the Beat generation’s holy trinity. Yet while those two were long ago ushered into the

Arts & Culture

A man of courage and conviction

Jerry Hayes

Whatever you might think about Peter Hain, he has proved himself to be a man of great personal courage and conviction. Of course, when it comes to being a

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Tailored Scotch

Dave Broom

While it is an accepted fact that a true gentleman will make his tweed jacket last a lifetime - there is nothing more likely to raise the eyebrows of

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