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Andrew Neil offers a despairing snapshot of cancelled trains, ludicrously expensive rail tickets, hell at Terminal 5, non-existent customer service. Does anyone want to fix this?
Meet James Purnell: the best hope Labour has of avoiding disaster
Fraser Nelson says that the 38-year-old Work and Pensions Secretary is the best candidate to succeed Gordon Brown. Already surging ahead at his department, he has the gift of sounding like an ordinary human being — and he understands the Cameron Conservative party
I never want to be as insecure as Olivier
Tim Walker talks to Greta Scacchi about her new role in The Deep Blue Sea, the gaucheness of Bill Murray — and being offered the lead in Basic Instinct
C’mon Cherie: even Goering stuck up a bit for Hitler
Rod Liddle says it is no surprise that Gordon Brown has ended up as surly and suspicious as he has: the memoirs of John Prescott, Lord Levy and Cherie Blair are appalling acts of treachery and avarice
The secret letters of the Jonestown death cult
Thirty years after the mass suicides and murders in Guyana, Barry Isaacson unveils a cache of letters he found in his LA home, mapping the pain of one of the families
Arts
Moving and magical
Roberto Alagna
Barbican
Simon Boccanegra
Royal Opera House
The Merry Widow
Coliseum
Books
1968 and all that
Allan Massie remembers 1968
But what about justice, fairness and honesty?
Alan Judd reads James Griffin's account of human rights
Style & Travel
Meet James Purnell: the best hope Labour has of avoiding disaster
Fraser Nelson says that the 38-year-old Work and Pensions Secretary is the best candidate to succeed Gordon Brown. Already surging ahead at his department, he has the gift of sounding like an ordinary human being — and he understands the Cameron Conservative party
Fraser NelsonI never want to be as insecure as Olivier
Tim Walker talks to Greta Scacchi about her new role in The Deep Blue Sea, the gaucheness of Bill Murray — and being offered the lead in Basic Instinct
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