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This’ll Warm Your Cockles
It’s so easy, too easy to moan about anything and everything… part of the British disposition and I have to give it to us, we’re damn good at making a fuss.
By Catherine | Notebook | Friday, 19 November 2010 at 12:38 pm
Football’s obsession with youth is in danger of becoming unhealthy
England’s lackluster performance against France should serve as a valuable lesson that youth is no substitute for experience and younger does not necessarily mean better.
By James Goyder | Sport | Friday, 19 November 2010 at 12:31 pm
Adriana sensitively exhumed
Kaufmann and Gheorghiu were not the only star attractions of this early and clearly expensive Christmas gift from the Royal Opera. Cilea’s Frenchified melodrama hasn’t been seen in the house since 1906 and the dusty wing space of Charles Edwards’ extraordinary set looked like it might actually have been excavated from the theatre as it [...]
By Edward Seckerson | Arts | Friday, 19 November 2010 at 10:51 am
Games review roundup: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood; God of War: Ghost of Sparta; Sonic Colours; The Fight: Lights Out
A weekly roundup of our bite-size games reviews, this week featuring cloak & dagger warfare in Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood; a journey into Greek mythology with God of War: Ghost of Sparta; everyone’s favourite high-speed hedgehog in Sonic Colours and bare knuckle brawling in The Fight: Lights Out.
By Michael Plant | Games, Notebook | Friday, 19 November 2010 at 9:56 am
Why learning languages matters
Ask most adults if they think that being able to speak another language is a good thing and they will invariably answer ‘Yes’ and then add, ‘ but I was useless at it at school’. Ask them why it’s a good thing, and they start to flounder. Vague answers about how the economy needs people who speak other languages is the most common response, followed by how useful it is to be able to “get by” on holiday abroad.
By Dr Shirley Lawes | Battle of Ideas | Friday, 19 November 2010 at 6:00 am
World’s Biggest Liar crowned
The World’s Biggest Liar contest has been held in Cumbria – and Essex resident Paul Burrows won it with his claim that Cumbrians had stolen the mountains and lakes from his home county.
By Alan Cleaver | Notebook | Friday, 19 November 2010 at 1:16 am
Has Bill Cash become a Europhile?
It hardly counts, because it is Alex Singleton, but he asks number 436 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 18 November 2010 at 6:50 pm
The Gumpathon team complete their epic journey
The ‘Gumpathon’ marines who were featured on these pages last month have completed their epic 3,500 mile coast to coast run across the United States.
By Simon Rice | The Foreign Desk | Thursday, 18 November 2010 at 5:17 pm
UFC 123 preview: Rampage-Machida
A look ahead to UFC 123 which takes place in Auburn Hills, Michigan on Saturday.
By Adam Williamson | Sport | Thursday, 18 November 2010 at 4:44 pm
Alex Ferguson thought Brian Clough was ‘rude’
Terror causes the evacuation of a Wild West community after word spreads that Big Fergie is heading for town. Only the intrepid saloon keeper stays put, cleaning and re-cleaning unused glasses in the hope that his customers will return.
By John Roberts | Sport | Thursday, 18 November 2010 at 4:33 pm
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