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• Mary Dejevsky: Cool realism is a political virtue, too
No ideological vision could have replaced sound judgement in 1989
• Terence Blacker: Reality TV police shows are criminal
For half an hour, the real world is presented in black-and-white terms
• Dominic Lawson: The only options are to double up in Afghanistan or leave
At a risk of sounding callous, the number of casualties is actually small for a war
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5 Michael Brown: Labour are running out of viable options – and people
6 Terence Blacker: Reality TV police shows are criminal
7 Mary Dejevsky: Cool realism is a political virtue, too
8 Leading article: President Obama makes a decent fist of a thankless job
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7 Mary Dejevsky: Cool realism is a political virtue, too
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