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‘He’s been ranting without notes for half an hour.’

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

‘I went into the war as a student and came out as an artist’ by Harry Mount

A woman of substance by Mary Wakefield

The Tory lesson

6 March 2010

There is something distinctly Orwellian about Ed Balls’s latest wheeze. As of this week, parents requesting that their child be sent to a particular school are being informed by text…

Michael Foot, R.I.P.

6 March 2010

Portrait of the week

6 March 2010

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

6 March 2010
James Forsyth

Britain must be saved from the financial abyss

6 March 2010
Allister Heath

Let’s set schools free

6 March 2010
Michael Gove

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

6 March 2010
James Forsyth

The bar of the Brighton Metropole hotel was packed on Saturday night, with the sort of people locals would want to avoid. It was the Tory spring conference, and the…

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

Cameron and Osborne must listen to their backbenchers — or face revolt

30 January 2010
James Forsyth

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Bridge

27 February 2010

Chess

27 February 2010

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

6 March 2010
James Delingpole

‘I am Howard Roark in a world of Ellsworth Tooheys…’ I tweeted in a fit of depression the other day, though I rather wish I hadn’t. I’m not an architect…

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

High Standards

6 March 2010
Roger Alton

So I’m supposed to take this online persecution on the chin, am I?

27 February 2010
Toby Young

Ancient & modern

27 February 2010
Peter Jones

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Trust in a market where it pays to deceive?

6 March 2010
Martin Vander Weyer

I can’t claim to have invented the off-balance-sheet sleight-of-hand used by the Greek government, under the guidance of Goldman Sachs, to beggar itself so spectacularly. But I was certainly a…

A VAT rise may be no laughing matter, but it’s better than the alternatives

27 February 2010
Martin Vander Weyer

If you don’t want to be treated as crooks, stop mugging your high-street customers here please

20 February 2010
Martin Vander Weyer

The euro may be heading for cataclysm, but that’s no reason to be rude about pigs

13 February 2010
Martin Vander Weyer

Gallantry is a finite resource

13 February 2010
Elliot Wilson

Billions more mouths to feed

13 February 2010
Dominic Midgley

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