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The coach, the boxer and the gorilla
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Is President Obama actually a harbinger of the Apocalypse?
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Are we really this stupid?
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Seefeel return after 14 year hiatus
The electro-shoegaze return band with their first new material in 14 years. And rather good it is too.
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Monday, 26 July 2010 at 12:38 pm
Why breaking up Barclays Bank doesn’t look so clever
So now we know. Barclays is Britain’s strongest bank, and by quite some way. Even under a stressed scenario considered by Europe’s banking watchdogs it would have a tier one capital ratio of 13.7 per cent. You wouldn’t want to describe any bank as rock solid given the carnage of the past few years, but [...]
By James Moore | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Monday, 26 July 2010 at 11:53 am
Mash-ups, Mad Men and Miller
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By Gillian Orr | Digital Digest, Notebook | Monday, 26 July 2010 at 11:40 am
Tips for all you cycling gals (circa 1936)
Fantastic bit of British Pathé newsreel here in which Evelyn Hamilton – by all accounts the Victoria Pendleton of her day – offers advice for city riding that is just as useful today as it was in the Thirties. The narration is great, too (“riding without the handlebars about as clever as giving a balloon to [...]
By Simon Usborne | Cyclotherapy, Notebook | Monday, 26 July 2010 at 11:30 am
StarCraft 2 launch prompts midnight store openings
Such is the demand for the PC-only title that selected stores throughout the country will be opening at midnight in order to meet demand for its release.
By Michael Plant | Notebook | Monday, 26 July 2010 at 11:07 am
Iraq Inquiry Coverage Prebuttal Service
Hans Blix, the former UN weapons inspector (below), is to give evidence to the Chilcot inquiry tomorrow. I wonder if he will still disagree with the invasion of Iraq in March 2003? After the space given by the BBC to a diplomat who so disagreed with the war that he resigned a mere 18 months [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Monday, 26 July 2010 at 10:19 am
Jones and Bleakley: Separated at birth?
Today’s Red Top papers have been commenting on the similarities between the Beeb’s recently axed One Show presenter, Christine Bleakley, and her newly revealed replacement, Alex Jones.
With its usual astute powers of observation, The Sun remarked: “Alex Jones, 32, has the same big smile, brunette locks and glam style as the Irish beauty…but a Welsh [...]
By Matilda Battersby | Arts, Notebook | Monday, 26 July 2010 at 10:12 am
More green ink on Kelly
Today’s green ink correspondent for the Mail on Sunday is Glen Owen. Even by the standards of David Kelly conspiracy theory reporting, he has written a remarkable article. The essence of it is this: A Russian man says that another man who he says works for MI5 said David Kelly was murdered; the other man [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 25 July 2010 at 9:45 pm
A quiet corner of a quiet English village
Today we come from farm and fell
Wild flowers and rushes green we twine
We sing the hymn we love so well
And worship at St Oswald’s shrine.
So begins the rushbearing hymn, sung each year in the Lake District of Grasmere as part of the rushbearing festival. Grasmere is famous for the tomb of William Wordsworth (and wife, [...]
By Alan Cleaver | Notebook | Sunday, 25 July 2010 at 6:20 pm
Is Norman Tebbit more tolerant of gays than Labour leaders?
Number 375 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No is asked by Left Outside at Liberal Conspiracy.
Thanks to Graham, who suggests that Left Outside should ask Michael Portillo what he thinks of the question.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 25 July 2010 at 4:07 pm
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