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Thursday 20 November 2008

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The spirit of the game

Now that Andy Murray is out of Wimbledon, we can turn our sporting attention to the coming Test series between...

Cooper spins us a choice

Paul Waugh spots this line in a speech given by Yvette Cooper an hour ago:"David Cameron has said we should...

Is this how Brown plans to get Labour fired up and ready to go?

I’m still sceptical about the idea of Brown going to the country in 2009, but Martin Bright lays out one...

Immigration drops

Back in late summer, the ever-perspicacious Vince Cable, predicted that “if we get into a serious recession, immigration will become...

An admission of failure?

Just following up my post of yesterday evening, it's worth pointing out the story in today's FT that Alistair Darling...

Arts

Power struggle

Boris Godunov
English National Opera

La rencontre imprévue
Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Change of tack

Gethsemane
Cottesloe

State of Emergency
Gate

Books

Surprising literary ventures

On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco (1886), by Anton Chekhov

Recent audio books

To some of us solitude may be sitting on a park bench amidst a bustling city.

Style & Travel

Spain’s secret kingdoms

Few tourists see the buildings, birds and flowers of Leon and Burgos, says Simon Courtauld

Climb every mountain

Jeremy Clarke tries the high life at the Carlton hotel, St Moritz

Thank goodness we can have a run on the pound when we need one

Martin Vander Weyer looks ahead to next week’s Pre-Budget Report and reflects on George Osborne’s contentious remarks about the devaluation of sterling. It looks like Gordon Brown is getting away with his borrowing binge — leaving the Tories isolated

Martin Vander Weyer

I loved Oliver Stone’s Bush film — and I know why the critics hated it

The movie W. did not provide the crude anti-Bush agitprop that the reviewers craved, says Rod Liddle. This was precisely its strength: we need to get inside the minds even of those we most deplore

Rod Liddle

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