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Sunday 7 September 2008

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Business

Pound sold to highest bidder

Matthew Lynn on domain name sales

King coal prepares for a comeback

Neil Barnett says the miners’ union that took on Margaret Thatcher and lost is now talking surprisingly good sense about Britain’s future energy security

Nice pork, pity about the pizza

Judi Bevan finds her local Lidl discount store full of bargains — but not Boden-clad middle-class shoppers

City Life

The credit crunch reaches the home of the rotten apple and the ‘Rolexo’ watch

New Deal economics: lessons from Herbert Hoover

Bill Jamieson says calls for a Rooseveltian New Deal to stave off US recession are misinformed; it was FDR’s much-maligned predecessor who set the course for recovery

Arts

Marriage lines

The Archers Omnibus (BBC Radio 4); Sunday Worship (BBC Radio 4); The Reunion (BBC Radio 4)

Creative differences

Marcus Berkmann on Walter Becker's new album

Books

Life and Letters

Breaking the rules

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

Charlotte Metcalf finds a friend on the Mamma Mia! island

The skinny on sportswear

James Sherwood seeks suitable jogging attire

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