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The Philistine Liberation Organization
Following my boast about my role in founding the Philistine Society, John Palmer has drawn my attention to the existence of a rival body, the PLO, which appears to be based in Ontario.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 21 November 2010 at 11:42 am
Fans or financiers: who should own football?
Unless they were incognito and silent, financiers were not much in evidence at this early morning session at the Battle of Ideas festival entitled Fans or financiers: who should own football? Maybe they thought they’d get a rough time. After all, there’s little love lost between fans and the wealthy businessmen who own football clubs but apparently care little about its history, nor the game itself.
By Jo Phillips | Battle of Ideas | Sunday, 21 November 2010 at 12:00 am
Lib Dems suffer from “unfair” cuts
Labour has a one-point lead over the Conservatives, with the Liberal Democrats at their lowest level in a ComRes poll since the election, according to a survey for the Sunday Mirror and The Independent on Sunday tomorrow.
Con 37% (+2)
Lab 38% (+1)
LD 13% (-3)
Other 12% (-)
(Change [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 20 November 2010 at 6:30 pm
The Goose Plot
The Daily Mail’s serialisation today of Anthony Seldon and Guy Lodge’s Brown at 10 brings together two of this blog’s favourite themes: ultra-contemporary history and How Journalism Works.
First, the journalism. Today’s publication explains the timing of yesterday’s revelation of Harriet Harman’s “goose plot” against Gordon Brown by The Times (pay wall). This is known in [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 20 November 2010 at 5:57 pm
Jack Straw on Deception and Regrets
Jack Straw has given an online interview to Andrew Sparrow of The Guardian, in which he says roughly what would be expected about his role in the plotting against Gordon Brown, the Iraq war and torture. But I thought he had interesting things to say about his decision to return Augusto Pinochet to Chile in [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 20 November 2010 at 4:28 pm
Catch-Up Service no 96
Quotation of the day, from Anne McElvoy in next month’s Prospect (subscription), is on the struggle of political leaders to avoid becoming “the accompaniment of things that would have happened anyway” (Hans Magnus Enzensberger). Apposite in a week in which David Cameron agreed to advance at least £7bn to help bail out friends and trading partners [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 20 November 2010 at 12:35 pm
What science can and cannot tell us
Science clearly plays a key role in modern society. It was one of the few areas spared drastic cuts in George Osbourne’s spending review, after having provoked hundreds of scientists to take to the streets the week previously under the slogan “Science is Vital”. But there’s something more to the current debate than the traditional support for scientific R&D. Indeed, it would have been embarrassing for a government of any colour to cut back the science budget given the increasing importance that politicians claim to place on science in their decision making – so called “Evidence-Based Policy”.
By Robin Walsh | Battle of Ideas | Saturday, 20 November 2010 at 6:00 am
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By Laura Davis | Notebook | Friday, 19 November 2010 at 6:17 pm
Chelsea’s 165-match ‘bounce-backability’ record
Chelsea head into Saturday’s game at Birmingham on the back of last weekend’s 3-0 home defeat to Sunderland but with an astonishing “bounce back” record to their name.
By Brian Sears | Sport | Friday, 19 November 2010 at 5:55 pm
Why West Ham are averse to visiting Liverpool
West Ham rest at the foot of the Premier League table, glancing nervously upwards.
They catch sight of their next hurdle. Oh no. Surely not. Of all the places they don’t want to go on Saturday at tea-time it’s Anfield. And where are they going? Yes indeedy; red peril ahead.
Any ground would pose problems [...]
By Brian Sears | Sport | Friday, 19 November 2010 at 5:52 pm
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