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Friday 29 August 2008

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A failing mark

Liz Brockelhurst, who marked Key stage 2 papers for a decade, has done a great piece for the magazine this...

Not a great speech but an effective one

On a night which will live long in the memory, Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president. His acceptance...

Tonight's McCain ad

The McCain campaign used to rail against the media’s obsession with Obama but now it feeds it. It has jumped...

A hard balancing act

The expectations for Obama’s speech tonight are a mile high. I’d be tempted to say they’ll be impossible to match...

Is the eco-town coalition collapsing?

Ok, so Tesco's announcement that they're dropping plans to construct an eco-town at Hanley Grange, Cambridgeshire, was couched in diplomatic...

Arts

Senior moments

New Tricks (BBC1); Mutual Friends (BBC1); Masterchef: the Professionals (BBC1)

That was the year that was

1968: The Year of Revolutions (BBC Radio 4); The Golden Notebook (BBC Radio 4)

Books

The peculiarities of a realist

Fine just the way it is: Wyoming stories by Annie Proulx

On home ground

Neil Clark on Cyril Hare’s Tragedy at Law, first published in 1942.

Style & Travel

Acropolis now

Henry Sands says Athens’s new museum is missing its Marbles

Here’s how McCain can beat Obama to the White House

The acclaimed young Republican writer, Reihan Salam, says that McCain can win the presidency if he appeals relentlessly to the non-college-educated white middle class, pursues family-friendly tax reform and stands for global peace through American strength

Reihan Salam