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Saturday 21 November 2009

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Saturday, 21st November 2009

The White House pushes the Afghan decision down the road again

Coffee House James Forsyth 6:50pm There will be no decision from the White House on Afghan strategy this coming week. The Obama administration has told
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The smoking iceberg?

Melanie Phillips Melanie Phillips 6:24pm Data that has been hacked from the Hadley Centre’s Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia University – one of
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An important member of the class of 2010

Coffee House James Forsyth 5:15pm Dominic Raab, who has just been selected for the safe Tory seat of Esher and Walton, will be a formidable
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Where to start cutting

Coffee House David Blackburn 3:30pm Michael Portillo believes that a future Tory government, like those that came before it, will not succeed in cutting public
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A charisma free zone

Rod Liddle Rod Liddle 2:32pm I’ve just been looking up the history of Lady Catherine Ashton, who was appointed last week to the post of
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Money talks in Afghanistan

Coffee House Peter Hoskin 12:05pm Afghan politics stinks; we all know it.  But it's still shocking to read how the former governor of Helmand, Sher
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Behind the closed doors of Brussels

Coffee House Peter Hoskin 10:26am Today's Times carries a cracking account of all the wheeling and dealing that went on during the EU jobs fair
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Friday, 20th November 2009

The XI of the Decade

Alex Massie ALEX MASSIE 11:19pm It's that time of year and that time of the decade. So, what's the best XI of the last ten
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There is more shopping in three streets in London than in Birmingham and Manchester combined

Coffee House James Forsyth 7:27pm Prospect magazine’s In Fact column always contains some thought provoking numbers. This month, I was particularly struck by this statistic:
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Petraeus 2012 Watch

Alex Massie ALEX MASSIE 7:15pm Previously, I've argued that even if General David Petraeus does have political ambitions there are any number of obstacles that
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