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Wednesday 19 November 2008

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Business

The entrepreneur’s art: buying, building, selling

Judi Bevan meets David Young, who served in Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet before chairing Cable & Wireless and creating his own successful private-equity business

What the US Treasury needs: magician and economic genius

James Doran assesses the qualities needed to be Obama’s Treasury secretary at a time of unprecedented crisis, and wonders whether the front-runners measure up

City Life

Are the Turks ready to be part of Europe? Brussels says no but Kylie says yes

He’s the voice of the crash, but the words are all his own

Financial crisis has transformed Robert Peston from egghead to celebrity, says Dominic Midgley, but the BBC business editor indignantly denies he’s a government mouthpiece

Arts

Taking risks

Charles Spencer on his addiction to buying CDs

Horribly powerful

The Baader Meinhof Complex
18, Key Cities

Books

‘The college of God’s gift’

Dulwich College: A History, 1616-2008, by Jan Piggott

Put a brave face on it

It’s official: make-up is recession-proof, says Lindy Woodhead

In a rich man’s world

Peter Grogan on Britain’s last remaining ‘private bankers’

Want to cut taxes? First cut spending. Here’s how

After a week of clamorous competition between the parties over tax cuts, Fraser Nelson offers a guide to paying for them: a programme of spending cuts that would preserve core services but shave off the fat of the Brown years. All that is needed is political will

Fraser Nelson