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Friday 21 November 2008

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Business

Was ABN Amro a deal too far for Fred the Shred?

Matthew Lynn says Royal Bank of Scotland chief Sir Fred Goodwin’s reputation is on the line as he struggles to make a success of a very expensive acquisition

Twelve steps to market meltdown

Stephen Vines says stock markets may seem wildly volatile at times of crisis, but they always follow a pattern

Any Other Business

My hopes for America lie less in Obama- mania, more in Vaud and the Villains

‘These clouds will have a silver lining’

Judi Bevan meets Sir John Parker, who chairs National Grid and the Court of the Bank of England — and takes an optimistic view of the deepening recession

Power struggle

Boris Godunov
English National Opera

La rencontre imprévue
Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Change of tack

Gethsemane
Cottesloe

State of Emergency
Gate

Books

Surprising literary ventures

On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco (1886), by Anton Chekhov

Recent audio books

To some of us solitude may be sitting on a park bench amidst a bustling city.

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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