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Paul Vale: The Modern Warfare 2 outcry is woefully predictable
As laughable as it was predictable, MP Keith Vaz has criticised the publication of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, a new game from Activision that features scenes of violence and places gamers in scenarios where they are asked to decide whether to kill civilians in order to infiltrate a group of Russian terrorists.
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Bruce Anderson: The EU battle isn't over for Cameron
Monday, 9 November 2009
Although a short-term crisis has been averted, a longer term crisis is inevitable
Dr Lorna Robinson: 'Latin inspires and enthuses children'
Monday, 9 November 2009
The Romans may have sailed from Britain's shores more than 1,500 years ago but Latin is far from a dead language when it comes to teaching and inspiring children in primary schools.
Don't call me an alcoholic
Monday, 9 November 2009
Simon Carr: Binge-drinking, I can remember, was once praised as being safer than steady soaking
Philip Hensher: But that was in another country...
Monday, 9 November 2009
Sometimes, when I'm in Berlin, I seem to glimpse the ghost of a different city inhabiting these same streets. In Prenzlauer Berg, behind the gleamingly restored Jugendstil apartment blocks and chic restaurants serving Sunday brunches, there rises up a shabby, grey street with a single cellar bar; behind the lavish grandeur of Unter Den Linden, the sight of a pathetic shop, its wares pushed to the front, two quiet assistants following passers-by with their eyes. Friedrichstrasse, going in the direction of Kreuzberg, has a slight kink; in the mind's eye a cabin rises up, a barrier, a 10-foot wall, the sign "YOU ARE NOW LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR".
Helen Croydon: You won't get me back into flatties
Monday, 9 November 2009
All this heel bashing is a conspiracy against the feminine power a stiletto can yield
Ed Mayo: We need action to break up the big beasts of the corporate world
Monday, 9 November 2009
When the credit crunch first hit, many people felt like bewildered observers. As the implications for national debt, public services and pensions become clear, it is evident we have been mugged by the capital markets.
John Rentoul: Defeat from the jaws
Monday, 9 November 2009
I am completely with Amol Rajan in his contempt for The Sun's "shameful" attempt to exploit a mother's grief in order further to humiliate the Prime Minister.
Amol Rajan: Neither Brown nor we deserve this propaganda
Monday, 9 November 2009
Iain Dale is essentially right and more measured than I am prepared to be.
Niel Bowerman: It falls to my generation to avert climate catastrophe
Monday, 9 November 2009
How old will you be in 2050? I will be 63. I don’t yet know what the world will look like in the year 2050, but I do know how my world looked back in 1987, so let me begin there.
John Reid: The enduring implications of the fall of the Berlin Wall
Monday, 9 November 2009
The fall of the Berlin Wall, on November 9, 1989, was one of history’s truly epochal moments. During what became a revolutionary wave sweeping across the former Eastern Bloc countries, the announcement by the then-East German Government that its citizens could visit West Germany set in train a series of events that led, ultimately, to the demise of the Soviet Union itself.
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A short-term crisis has been averted, but a longer term crisis is inevitable
• Simon Carr: Don't call me an alcoholic
Binge-drinking was once praised as being safer than steady soaking
• Philip Hensher: Berlin... but that was in another country
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