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Business

Private education

School fees: a luxury you can’t afford

Safe as houses: why Nationwide survived

Matthew Lynn says Britain’s largest building society prospered by refusing to follow fashion — while its bolder, greedier rivals have all gone bust or been taken over

The No. 1 tax detective agency

Ross Clark takes a look at the TaxPayers’ Alliance

A riposte to the Archbishop

Leading hedge-fund manager Paul Marshall says Rowan Williams was wrong to scapegoat share traders

‘Business only thrives when society thrives’

Judi Bevan hears the views of Paul Myners, the left-leaning millionaire art collector who has just become Gordon Brown’s City minister

Arts

In the doldrums

Hole in the Wall (BBC1, Saturday); American Future: A History (BBC2, Friday); John Adams (More 4, Saturday)

Fickle fortune

Tulips in Winter (BBC Radio 3); Soul and Skin (BBC Radio 4)

Books

The Best of Punch Cartoons

The Best of Punch Cartoons, by Helen Walasek

Call of the wild

One Highlands estate is to become a wilderness reserve, writes Lisa Marie Johnson

To the manner born

James Sherwood discovers a new meaning to the phrase ‘fashion house’

Amid the financial turmoil, Peter versus George is the key battle

Stand by for a mighty clash between two politicians, says Fraser Nelson. The now infamous dinner between Mandelson and Osborne was a cordial parting for power-brokers of different generations who will fight each other savagely for electoral advantage

Fraser Nelson

Maybe Polanski was right to flee America

P.G. Morgan goes in search of the truth about the great director’s flight from the US courts — and uncovers some uncomfortable truths worthy of a scene in Chinatown

P.G. Morgan

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