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Crazy or ingenious? An airbag for your head
Helmets divide the bike community. I wrote a col...
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Manchester United fans, get a grip
Last night, around 30 'militant' Manchester Unit...
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A policy obsession with teenage mothers? Yes please!
Whilst many young people are making active choic...
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Is the Big Society the good society?
Mayor Boris Johnson recently bantered good naturedly on affordable housing with some unhappy (i.e. unelected) BNP hecklers. I was in Barking as he steered an unsatisfactory course between condemning the previous government’s “disastrous” immigration policy while putting the narrow economic case for an asylum amnesty. But it was Cllr Phil Waker, Cabinet Member for Housing at Barking & Dagenham that got my attention.
By Dave Clements | Battle of Ideas, Eagle Eye | Saturday, 23 October 2010 at 6:00 am
Will transsexuals destroy women’s sport?
Number 407. Asked on the cover of this week’s Spectator.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 22 October 2010 at 10:59 pm
Why Clegg Changed His Mind
In his interview with The Guardian today, Nick Clegg explains why he ditched his pre-election promise to vote against a rise in tuition fees. This time he does not say that it was because he realised how bad the deficit was only after the election:
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 22 October 2010 at 10:54 pm
What did Ireland get wrong, Rupert?
Ireland has done everything that the economic philosophy of Rupert Murdoch has dictated. Perhaps following that philosophy was what Dublin got wrong.
In an ad agency far, far away…
M&C Saatchi have pulled off quite a coup by persuading Star Wars creator George Lucas to hand over R2-D2 and C-P30 for use in an ad campaign this weekend to promote Currys, of all people.
By Ian Burrell | Notebook | Friday, 22 October 2010 at 6:37 pm
Crazy or ingenious? An airbag for your head
Helmets divide the bike community. I wrote a column about it some time ago. And the debate has come to, er, a head recently with the launch of the cycle hire scheme. I’ve yet to see a cyclist riding a Boris Bike wearing protection.
By Simon Usborne | Cyclotherapy, Notebook | Friday, 22 October 2010 at 3:50 pm
In fear of Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs: Why Manchester City need to abolish capital punishment at home
If Manchester City are serious about being title contenders then they need to stop losing so many games at home, and in particular stop losing at home to London’s big clubs: Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham.
By Brian Sears | Sport | Friday, 22 October 2010 at 2:24 pm
Manchester Music is alive and well…
Think of Manchester music and The Smiths, Joy Division, Happy Mondays and Stone Roses will pop out as the most iconic; post-punk, Factory records and the Hacienda…
By Catherine | Notebook | Friday, 22 October 2010 at 1:52 pm
Manchester United fans, get a grip
Last night, around 30 ‘militant’ Manchester United fans decended on Wayne Rooney’s house to express their anger at his proposed move to Manchester City. Carrying a banner that read “Join City and you will die”, the group demanded Rooney come and talk to them. Understandably he didn’t.
By Simon Rice | Sport | Friday, 22 October 2010 at 1:29 pm
The Sound of Silence
Following the release of the post-mortem report today into the death of David Kelly, confirming his wounds were “typical of self-inflicted injury”, we await comment from Norman Baker, Peter Oborne, Melanie Phillips, Paul Dacre, Richard Ingrams, Michael Howard, Nick Ferrari, Paul Routledge, the nine doctors who wrote to The Times.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 22 October 2010 at 10:47 am
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