Friday 20 November 2009

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Is running a country just too big a job for anyone?

14 November 2009
Hugo Rifkind

You don’t expect people to take their political inspiration from Jon Bon Jovi. Or at least I don’t. Maybe that’s terribly presumptuous of me. Maybe some people do. ‘Tommy used…

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Opportunity knocks

14 November 2009
Jeremy Clarke

I met Combo at dawn. I was standing on the…

Follow the leader

14 November 2009
Taki

New York At an outdoor luncheon party in Sussex celebrating…

Table talk

7 November 2009
Jeremy Clarke

Seven hours between flights at Nairobi airport and nowhere to…

Backing Zac

7 November 2009
Taki

New York ‘Why would he run for Parliament?’ screams the…

Low Life

31 October 2009
Jeremy Clarke

Mvuu Lodge, Liwonde, Malawi I arrived at the jetty in…

High Life

31 October 2009
Taki

New York One felt the backlash against the BNP–BBC fiasco…

7 November 2009

Only a little more than a year ago, Gordon Brown…

31 October 2009

There is a great caterwauling among Conservatives, as James Forsyth…

24 October 2009

When I was asked to write the foreword for the…

17 October 2009

People are missing what is wrong with Sir Thomas Legg’s…

10 October 2009

In the early Cameronian period, which now feels prehistoric, the…

3 October 2009

For years, I kept Labour’s shortest version of its 1997…

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It wouldn’t matter if all the bees died

31 October 2009

The world is going to end in 2012, apparently — hopefully just before the start of the Olympic Games. Armageddon may come about as a consequence of those monkeys firing up the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, where they have al-Qa’eda operatives attempting to create black holes which will swallow the earth whole, or reduce it to the size of an extremely dense tennis ball.

Imagine seven billion of us trying to stand on a tennis ball. You just hope personal hygiene standards won’t be sacrificed. Or perhaps it will be giant solar flares frazzling the earth, or a sudden reversal…

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