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Tuesday, 18th November 2008

Rhymin' Simon

Clive Davis Clive Davis 10:16am Four-and-a-half decades' worth of lyrics preserved between hard covers. The NY Observer welcomes the chance to wander inside the mind
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Looking at Obama

Clive Davis Clive Davis 9:48am Do British media pundits know anything about the race issue? Marbury assembles the case for the prosecution. [Via Norm]
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Where John Sergeant learned to dance

Clive Davis Clive Davis 9:12am A classic Steptoe moment. Harold is desperate to acquire some ballroom skills.
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The Tory attack operation warms up

Coffee House Peter Hoskin 8:58am There's a punchy op-ed from David Cameron in today's Guardian, centred around this three-pronged attack on Brown's borrowing binge: "But
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Monday, 17th November 2008

Another banana moment?

Melanie Phillips Melanie Phillips 11:25pm With his remarks about the Israeli settlements, Foreign Secretary David Miliband (pictured eating an ice-cream in Damascus) has signalled
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Fantasy foreign policy

Melanie Phillips Melanie Phillips 8:09pm Walid Phares is rightly incredulous at the noises coming out of the Obama transition team about talking to Iran
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Thin blue end of the wedge

Melanie Phillips Melanie Phillips 8:03pm   A Times report says the BNP is planning to seize control of policing when the government introduces direct elections
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Notebook

Clive Davis Clive Davis 6:27pm He had been absent during the events of May 1968, and had showed little interest in the political developments
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Will Bill play ball, so Hillary can be Secretary of State?

Americano James Forsyth 6:27pm Mike Allen reports the latest on the Hillary for Secretary of State story: “Team Obama, after all but offering SecState
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There may be damp squibs ahead

Coffee House Peter Hoskin 4:30pm Just to follow up Fraser's and Daniel's posts, Clive Crook's column in the FT today contains a striking example of
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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

Martin Vander Weyer

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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