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Mary Dejevsky: A little voter fraud goes a long way
There's something delightfully quaint about voting in Britain: the makeshift notices that appear overnight, the empty school halls where assembly was held only the day before.
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Terence Blacker: Could there really be life after Piers?
Friday, 7 May 2010
It is a strange, heady moment. We are at a time of change, yet no one quite knows what that change will bring. It happened in 1979 and in 1997 and, in some form or other, it will happen in 2010: a big electoral shift will seep into the culture, changing attitudes to more or less everything.
Rupert Cornwell: Election lessons for America
Friday, 7 May 2010
Even more blatantly than in Britain, US politics does not reflect what the public wants. It detests the petty hyper-partisanship of Congress
Michael McCarthy: Chalk – the great giver of wildlife richness
Friday, 7 May 2010
I have a great fondness for maps. I buy a map whenever I travel anywhere and I keep it, and I can browse through maps like you can browse through magazines, letting the imagination wander over this river and that wood, or this village and that lane; but my favourite map doesn't have rivers or woods marked on it, or villages or lanes, although, very faintly, it does have major towns.
Michael McCarthy: Return of the native: the great secret of 20th-century botany
Friday, 7 May 2010
The Silverdale Lady's Slipper is one of the very few examples of what is perhaps our most spectacular wild flower, a bloom very unlike the pale pastel spikes of the other British orchids. Cypripedium calceolous is an exotic, almost outlandish confection of banana yellow and maroon which might seem more at home in the tropics.
Sean O'Grady: Soon there will be nowhere left for the losses to go
Friday, 7 May 2010
The echoes of 2007 and 2008 are striking, and terrifying. Instead of worthless mortgage-backed securities backed by sub-prime mortgages, we now have worthless Greek government securities backed by a sub-prime economy. Instead of the litany of famous Wall Street names that went under then – Bear Sterns, AIG, Merrill Lynch, Fannie Mae, Freddy Mac, and of course Lehmans – we now have great civilised nations with glorious histories being picked off by the markets, with the predators showing the same habit of successively picking off the weakest member of the pack first: Greece, then Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Italy and maybe even the UK.
The Sketch: Witney witnesses a very polite exercise in Conservatism
Friday, 7 May 2010
The ballot-counters sit facing their observers across the tables. Up in the bar, behind the glass wall, observers look down. I look up, observing the observers observing the observers. But who's observing me?
Daniel Howden: Choice of deputy will reveal Jonathan's gameplan
Friday, 7 May 2010
Despite the reverence for the dead that saw even the Niger Delta militants Mend pay their respects to Umaru Yar'Adua, few observers in Nigeria are wasting any more time on a president who was at death's door for much of his time in office.
Johann Hari: Deniers - apologise for Climategate
Thursday, 6 May 2010
At last! The controversy is over. Forget the general election for a moment; this is even more important. It turns out the "scientific" claims promoted for decades by whiny self-righteous liberals were a lie, a fraud, a con - and we don't need to change after all. The left is humiliated; the conservatives are triumphant and exultant.
Amol Rajan: The post-Obama Obama is called... Castro?
Thursday, 6 May 2010
I suppose we've long passed the stage where a politician who is young, telegenic, and offering change gets compared to Barack Obama. Sometimes this activity descends into farce.
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• Terence Blacker: Could there really be life after Piers?
Imagine if Cowell and Morgan become joke figures
• Tom Sutcliffe: There's merit in pretension
An interesting moment occurred during my tour of Artangel's latest project
• Rupert Cornwell: Election lessons for America
Even more blatantly than in Britain, US politics does not reflect what the public wants
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