Friday 5 September 2008

 

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CoffeeHouse

Fraser Nelson wondered if Labour’s welfare reform proposals would cost it Glasgow East and critiqued the Tory plan to import...

Comments are working again

Just to say that the comments facility is now working again. I've been assured that any comments made overnight (when...

Couldn’t organise a plot in a parliamentary party

Iain Martin has a quite brilliant line in his column today on Charles Clarke and his plotting : “If this is...

Have the energy companies damaged Brown's hopes even further?

Could the news that the Government won't give cash handouts to those struggling with rising energy bills be another nail...

McCain's speech: the verdict

For his speech last night, John McCain had a walkway built into the floor - perhaps to remind him of...

Arts

Missing the mark

RocknRolla
15, Nationwide

All she needs is love

All she needs is love

The Duchess
12A, Nationwide

Books

Life and Letters

Breaking the rules

Brave new writing

Brave new writing

Fifty years ago, Alan Sillitoe’s first novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, changed the history of English fiction. Richard Bradford explains how.

Style & Travel

Meet the real Donna

Meet the real Donna

Charlotte Metcalf finds a friend on the Mamma Mia! island

The skinny on sportswear

The skinny on sportswear

James Sherwood seeks suitable jogging attire

In this week's issue

Labour’s punishment freaks are hounding honest citizens

Ross Clark says that far from keeping our streets safer or cleaner, the government’s new force of amateur policemen are ignoring the worst offenders and pursuing law-abiding innocents instead

Ross Clark

‘Whoever killed Benazir wants to kill me’

Christina Lamb interviews the husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari, who hopes to be named President of Pakistan this Saturday

Christina Lamb

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