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Hillary praised Obama but the damage has not been undone

Hillary Clinton did what her duty compelled to do in terms of supporting Obama and attacking McCain in her speech. But it didn’t inflict lasting damage on McCain; she attacked him on the issues you would expect a Democrat to and praised Obama on the issues you would expect her to.

Department of unusual backdrops

Well, it’s not a moose being killed but it is still slightly odd to watch a politician being interviewed...

Obama set to create domestic spying agency

As part of what will be the most significant reorganization of the US intelligence community in decades, the Obama administration...

It looks like there will be an energetic start to the Obama era

All the signs are that we’re going to get serious energy legislation early in the new Congress. First, as Marc...

Team Obama grows

In contrast to the leak-proof first week, Obama’s transition team has been less successful more recently in keeping a lid...

Arts

Due discretion

During the two previous recessions it was not unknown for Rolls-Royce and Bentley owners to replace their cars covertly.

Glorious gadgets

Is Christmas creeping up on you, unawares? Again? Have you found yourself, even at this late hour, facing a nil-all draw as far as presents bought, and presents asked for, is concerned? Never mind.

Books

Myth-maker at work

The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington, by Jennet Conant

Extraordinarily ordinary

Wartime Courage: Stories of Extraordinary Courage by Ordinary People in World War Two, by Gordon Brown

Style & Travel

Climb every mountain

Jeremy Clarke tries the high life at the Carlton hotel, St Moritz

The mad hatter

Joseph Connolly reveals a life-long obsession with hats

Thank goodness we can have a run on the pound when we need one

Martin Vander Weyer looks ahead to next week’s Pre-Budget Report and reflects on George Osborne’s contentious remarks about the devaluation of sterling. It looks like Gordon Brown is getting away with his borrowing binge — leaving the Tories isolated

Martin Vander Weyer

I loved Oliver Stone’s Bush film — and I know why the critics hated it

The movie W. did not provide the crude anti-Bush agitprop that the reviewers craved, says Rod Liddle. This was precisely its strength: we need to get inside the minds even of those we most deplore

Rod Liddle

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