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Sunday 12 October 2008

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Brown gets a poll boost but the Tories are still ten points ahead

James Forsyth says that there are two ways of looking at the polls that show Labour closing the gap on the Conservatives. One is to say that they show that the Brown premiership is reviving. The other is to note that Labour being so far behind in circumstances so favourable to Brown shows how much trouble the party is in.

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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

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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

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Arts

An insidious form of censorship

Dominic Cooke

Dominic Cooke on why we must guard against a self-perpetuating climate of fear and timidity

Books

On stage from the start

Sam Leith

Henry: Virtuous Prince (by David Starkey)

Politics

Politics

Irwin Stelzer

Irwin Stelzer reviews the week in politics

Style & Travel

Call of the wild

Lisa Marie Johnson

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

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