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The price of resisting
On New Year’s Eve, as people across the world ...
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The 2010 "Questions to Which the Answer is No" Awards
After a mid-year round-up of the best to date of...
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Justine Henin returns to tennis with more of a squib than a bang, but it's good to have her back
Of all the tennis players there are to watch in ...
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New Year’s Resolution: lose weight, become miserable
Working my way through about our third bag of chocolate eclairs since Santa came to visit, sitting for hours on my somehow extraordinarily magnetic beanbag, laptop open and TV blaring – pretty much heaven for a few hours each day before my boyfriend is back at work and I have to face oncoming exams, essays [...]
Advice for Ed Miliband: Don’t Fall Off the Roof
There is more stuff on the internet today:
Alastair Campbell, on hype. “Provided he doesn’t fall from a roof, he [Ed Miliband] should get a fair hearing” for his speech in Oldham today. (Photograph of Miliband on roof: Martin Argles, Guardian.)
Paul Corrigan, the Labour former special adviser who does a better job explaining Andrew Lansley’s NHS [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Monday, 3 January 2011 at 3:50 pm
The Ashes: Patience is a virtue
The difference a touch of equanimity can achieve certainly paid dividends for the respective teams and finally we have a day where we can say that neither England nor Australia dominated proceedings. But it was the tourists who emerged on top after taking the Aussies from 105-1 to 134-4 as the weather, which resembled that of Scarborough rather than Sydney, took a heavy toll on proceedings.
By Alexander Penny | Sport | Monday, 3 January 2011 at 3:38 pm
Ed Balls and Kneejerk Magnacartaism
Ed Balls, on the detention of nine terrorist suspects, talking sense in the midst of a kneejerk magnacartaist meltdown.
What was clear back in 2005 is there were people who were a real threat but couldn’t be charged. And what did you do? And I understand why those decisions were made. I think the jury’s still [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Monday, 3 January 2011 at 2:08 pm
Deer Fairs
Some things on the internet at which I looked today:
Christian Wolmar, on the “steep rale fare rises”,* which he seems to accept will not stop the growth in rail use, especially with petrol so expensive.
Fraser Nelson, on why Lib Dems can save their seats only by joining the Tories: “If you support Cameron’s govt, why [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 2 January 2011 at 11:36 pm
The Ashes: Time for heroes to become legends
It would take some going to top the performance that England produced in Melbourne last week, but what better way to end an Ashes series than rubbing the hosts noses in the dirt whilst they are on the ground. Aside from the anomaly in Perth, the tourists form has been nothing short of flawless since [...]
By Alexander Penny | Sport | Sunday, 2 January 2011 at 5:17 pm
Watch this, er, space
Grant Shapps, the housing minister (right), does not emerge well from the application of the principle that “Everything before the ‘but’ is bullshit“:
This government absolutely supports peoples’ aspiration to own a home. But we also believe that [property] should be primarily thought of as a place to be your home.
Choice timing for Shapps’s Observer interview, [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 2 January 2011 at 4:29 pm
How the Baby Boomers Stole Their Children’s Future
I have an article in The Independent on Sunday in which I observe that David Willetts, who started the year as author of The Pinch, a polemic subtitled How the Baby Boomers Stole Their Children’s Future, ended it as universities minister, engaged in stealing our children’s future and requiring them to pay for it at 9 [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 2 January 2011 at 2:35 pm
The price of resisting
On New Year’s Eve, as people across the world celebrated together, Jawaher Abu Rahmah lay alone, struggling for breath in a Ramallah hospital. The day before, the people of her village, Bil’in, in the West Bank, had marched to Israel’s wall, which cuts through half of the village, to non-violently demonstrate against the theft of their land, just as they have done every Friday since construction on the wall began in 2005.
By Jody McIntyre | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 2 January 2011 at 10:05 am
Marcus Pook
It’s unlikely you’ll know who Marcus Pook is – and indeed I barely knew him – but his death on Boxing Day at the age of 51 deserves to be marked on this blog.
It was here last Summer that I wrote from the Ride Across Britain, a 1,000-mile, nine-day ride that tested the mettle – and, [...]
By Simon Usborne | Cyclotherapy, Notebook | Saturday, 1 January 2011 at 6:38 pm
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