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�It�s only that little bald guy with the inferiority complex.�

The global warming guerrillas by Matt Ridley

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

Is it really racist to want an English-speaking cab driver? by Rod Liddle

Game without frontiers by Deborah Ross

Horse power by Jeremy Clarke

It’s time to tackle student Islamists

30 January 2010
Michael Burleigh

What would a Conservative administration do about the radicalisation of Muslims at British universities? It is a question voters must be asking, given the swell of disturbing reports about student…

Confessions of a middle-class anarchist

30 January 2010
Harry Mount

Should we break up the banks?

30 January 2010
Ken Costa and Mark Bathgate

For Pakistan, America is the enemy

30 January 2010
Christina Lamb

We should not absolve Islam of the crimes committed in its name

30 January 2010
Rod Liddle

Time for a Major re-think

30 January 2010
Peter Oborne

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

30 January 2010
James Forsyth

When David Cameron and George Osborne move between their suite of offices at the eastern end of the parliamentary estate and the Commons chamber they do so with a pomp…

The Tories plan a radically different education system, with new schools

23 January 2010
James Forsyth

Labour’s cycle of deceit?

16 January 2010
James Forsyth

This election is the most important since 1983. Seldom has so much been at stake

2 January 2010
James Forsyth

What Cameron really needs to think about over Christmas is why he wants to be PM

19 December 2009
James Forsyth

The unspeakable truth is that we lost in Iraq. We must not lose in Afghanistan too

5 December 2009
James Forsyth

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Competition

30 January 2010
Lucy Vickery

In Competition No. 2631 you were invited to submit a poem on a subject of your choice in which the last two words of each line rhyme. There was an…

30 January 2010

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Chess

23 January 2010

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The Wiki Man

30 January 2010
Rory Sutherland

I’m not frightened of flying. Or spiders. Nor, like one friend of mine, do I have a crippling fear of tomatoes. But I do suffer from mild koumpounophobia — the…

Defining yourself these days as ‘upper class’ is the kiss of death in every walk of life

30 January 2010
Toby Young

The purpose of being unable to remember what’s on the tip of your tongue

30 January 2010
Matthew Parris

Will a Brown bombshell at the Chilcot inquiry win Labour the election? Place your bets

30 January 2010
Hugo Rifkind

Three tips on how to survive an apocalypse

23 January 2010
Hugo Rifkind

Spectator Sport

23 January 2010
Roger Alton

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Reputations rise and fall, but Lord Richardson deserves a City statue

30 January 2010
Martin Vander Weyer

When I first met the former Bank of England governor Gordon Richardson, at a bankers’ jamboree in Japan, I remember thinking that he was smaller than I had imagined. So…

How the brewers of Smethwick became the plaything of Barbados billionaires

23 January 2010
Martin Vander Weyer

Be thankful for Cheshire salt: at least we don’t have to buy the stuff from Russia

16 January 2010
Martin Vander Weyer

Taking a stick to the City hasn’t worked, so why not try knighthoods as carrots?

9 January 2010
Martin Vander Weyer

A decade to forget? No, remember Viagra, the iPod and the death of good manners

2 January 2010
Martin Vander Weyer

City Life

19 December 2009

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