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Sunday, 4th January 2009

Another Brown job

Coffee House Fraser Nelson 12:56pm Will anyone take Gordon Brown’s claim to create up to 100,000 jobs seriously? As a statistician will tell you, “up
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Brown smiles for the camera

Coffee House Peter Hoskin 10:59am Optimism, optimism, optimism.  That's the line that Gordon Brown pushes in his interview with the Observer today.  He quotes Barack
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The moral battleground

Melanie Phillips Melanie Phillips 12:53am And so now begins the second and most difficult stage. Inside Israel, there is both determination and dread as
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Saturday, 3rd January 2009

This is the end

Coffee House Peter Hoskin 6:58pm Thanks to David Brooks's Sidney Awards, I've just caught up with Michael Lewis's article 'The End', which appeared in Portfolio
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Risk management

Coffee House James Forsyth 6:17pm The Tories keep telling us that they are on an election footing. If they are, part of that must be
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The Great War's toll

Coffee House James Forsyth 5:01pm I’ve been reading Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Dire Warning by John Lukacs about Churchill’s speeches in May 1940.
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Notebook

Clive Davis Clive Davis 4:15pm I can only remember one occasion when the Rembrandt was almost empty the whole week - apart from Mondays,
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How Labour might spin a second bail-out

Coffee House James Forsyth 2:45pm A second bank bailout would, as Pete noted earlier, be a hinge moment in British politics. Anthony Wells has shown
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Oborne: Talks have begun about a Lib-Lab coalition

Coffee House James Forsyth 12:02pm Peter Oborne’s column today is explosive stuff. He writes that secret talks have already begun between Labour and Liberal Democrat
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A second bailout?

Coffee House Peter Hoskin 11:35am So there we have it.  The first substantial rumblings that Alistair Darling's going to sanction a second banking bailout, after
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The natural order of things

Matt Ridley says that Darwinian selection explains the appearance of seemingly ‘designed’ complexity throughout the world — not just in biology but in the economy, technology and the arts

Matt Ridley

Onward Christian Zionists

Rod Liddle on the crazed, quasi-fascist evangelicals in Britain and America who believe war in Gaza heralds the Second Coming of Christ

Rod Liddle

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