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Is this what the Labour counterattack will look like?

Coffee House Peter Hoskin 3:03pm The Standard's Paul Waugh blogs on how Labour might outflank the Tories on spending cuts, in rhetoric if not in
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Yes, that's the damn point!

Trading Floor Tim Worstall 2:44pm Ross Clark has a nice piece about how appallingly run the nationalised industries were. OK, no need really to rehash
Continue reading... 2:44pm Ross Clark has a nice piece about how appallingly run the nationalised industries were. OK, no need really to rehash
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Prem Sikka

Trading Floor Tim Worstall 2:35pm Prem's an accounting professor at the University of Essex and is rapidly carving out a minor career as a leftist
Continue reading... 2:35pm Prem's an accounting professor at the University of Essex and is rapidly carving out a minor career as a leftist
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The Tories should move all their MPs to Witney or Tatton

Coffee House James Forsyth 2:16pm One of the underappreciated factors in Obama’s success is that his campaign was not based in the Washington area. This
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Should the Tories fear these poll numbers?

Coffee House Peter Hoskin 12:48pm Courtesy of Political Betting, the headline figures from the latest MORI poll: Conservatives -- 40 percent (down 5) Labour --
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Credit where credit's due

Coffee House James Forsyth 12:41pm Today’s news that the Tories will no longer pledge to match Labour’s spending plans will, I’m sure, be welcomed by
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The Tories shouldn't let Brown provoke a split

Coffee House Fraser Nelson 12:13pm Is the Tory right secretly gunning for Cameron? Rachel Sylvester today raises this prospect, and you can take as read
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Osborne delivers a clear Tory message

Coffee House Peter Hoskin 11:33am This from George Osborne, speaking on the Beeb just now: "Spending restraint under Conservatives, tax rises under Labour" This bluntly effective message - that
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Cameron dumps Labour spending plans

Coffee House Peter Hoskin 10:54am I wrote earlier that David Cameron needed to do more to to outline how the Tories will respond to the
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The social effects of recession

Coffee House James Forsyth 10:42am David Brooks has a typically masterful column in the New York Times this morning on the social consequences of recessions.
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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

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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

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