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Brown admits comprehensives failed urban Britain

Gordon Brown’s desire to have it both ways is quite incredible. In his conference speech Brown took a personal and...

ComRes has Labour within one point of the Tories

The consensus in Westminster is that the Tories are back on the front foot following the PBR and the Damian...

Ken Livingstone: I favour 75 percent tax

Ken Livingstone tonight made two quite remarkable statements tonight at the latest Soundings / Comment is Free debate on ‘Who owns...

Profiting from profit-making

School reform is by some margin the best Conservative policy, but could it be better still? The Independent today runs...

The new crew

Elections have consequences as John McCain likes to say. So it would be unrealistic of us hawks to expect the...

Arts

Life lessons

Talking to my dentist, as one does, we discover a mutual enthusiasm for Radio Three’s Composer of the Week (Monday to Friday) and especially its presenter, Donald Macleod.

Apocalypse now

The TV programmes you watched as a child are like acid flashbacks.

Books

The power of the evasive word

The Economist Book of Obituaries, by Keith Colquhoun and Ann Wroe

Deadlier than the male

When does a novel stop being a novel and become a crime story? It’s often assumed that there is an unbridgeable gap between them, but that’s not necessarily so.

Style & Travel

Pink and potent

Never gamble your pension on a food fashion.

Stocking- filler fizz

Stuck for stocking-filler ideas and feel like raising an insouciant middle finger to the credit crunch?

Brown has played into the hands of the Tory Bullingdon Boys he loathes

Fraser Nelson says that the Pre-Budget Report killed off New Labour without landing a punch on the Tories. It has paved the way for a new Conservatism, in which Cameron woos aspirational voters, focuses on government debt and looks for responsible spending cuts

Fraser Nelson