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‘Have you noticed how chocolate bars seem smaller compared with when you were a kid?’

‘I want to stand for parliament’ by Freddy Gray

A diet of unrelenting mush by Ben West

Critical lesson by Jeremy Clarke

Day one: getting us back in business

13 March 2010
Allister Heath

Dear Treasury Permanent Secretary,

Good news: the nightmare is over. We both know that Gordon Brown is one of the greatest economic vandals ever to have resided in Downing Street.…

How to start saving Britain in ten minutes

13 March 2010

‘It’s the PM for you.’

13 March 2010
Chris Mullin

When ‘Yes, Prime Minister’ means anything but

13 March 2010
Antony Jay

How to spot Sir Humphrey’s schemes

13 March 2010

Community spirit

13 March 2010
Ed Howker

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The words ‘hung parliament’ remind MPs that their own parties are coalitions

13 March 2010
James Forsyth

MPs have a new favourite game: Hung Parliament. To solve this communal Rubik’s Cube you have to work out how a coalition could be put together if no party wins…

Why does it take a crisis to sting Cameron into action?

6 March 2010
James Forsyth

Brown is not the problem — it’s his thuggish henchmen who need to be reined in

27 February 2010
Martin Bright

To win the election, the Tories must learn to fight dirty

20 February 2010
James Forsyth

The war over Joanne Cash — and what it tells us about Cameron’s Conservatives

13 February 2010
James Forsyth

The Tories cannot continue to fight the election on the vague promise of ‘change’

6 February 2010
James Forsyth

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Bridge

6 March 2010

Chess

6 March 2010

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It’s time we bank customers started talking to each other in the queue

13 March 2010
Matthew Parris

I’ve been interested in informal banking ever since, frustrated in a long Lloyds bank queue in the West End, I persuaded some American tourists queuing with me to exchange their…

Build-a-Bear Workshops are like crack dens for five-year-olds

13 March 2010
Toby Young

The Wiki Man

13 March 2010
Rory Sutherland

Ayn Rand’s books are deliciously anti-statist, but her philosophy is borderline Nazi

6 March 2010
James Delingpole

What Cameron needs to do is appeal to the people who like the same music as him

6 March 2010
Hugo Rifkind

Parents are offered their first choice among second-rate schools

6 March 2010
Toby Young

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Our man in the car park contemplates the grotesqueries of ‘the beautiful game’

13 March 2010
Martin Vander Weyer

A dark hour imprisoned in a gridlocked multi-storey car park close to Old Trafford on a home-match evening gave me an opportunity to ponder what was once called ‘the beautiful…

Is now the time to buy back into China?

13 March 2010
Jonathan Davis

Cult collectibles from Barbie to Gaga

13 March 2010
Jasmine Birtles

Poor prospects in the sell-us-your-gold rush

13 March 2010
Dominic Midgley

Blue-chip opportunities despite euro turmoil

13 March 2010
Ian Cowie

Trust in a market where it pays to deceive?

6 March 2010
Martin Vander Weyer

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