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Sport on TV: Fighting to make ends meet, especially if they're broke
Sunday 27 January 2013
"Behind every great man..." giggles Maria Fletcher in Fighter's Wives – The World of MMA (Five, Thursday), and behind the facade of long blonde hair and pneumatic cleavage you might expect the scheming devices of a footballer's wife. But these women who watch their husbands getting regularly beaten to a pulp need to be clever and calculating in a different way.
Jenny Colgan: Warm and friendly, but Maeve Binchy's stories were never merely cosy
Wednesday 01 August 2012
She was a commercial novelist with an unfussy style that helped her sell millions
Comic strip for intellectuals: Gaiman announces surprise Sandman prequel
Friday 13 July 2012
Neil Gaiman, the comic book writer, novelist and screenwriter, is to return to the series that helped launch his career with a new edition of The Sandman in time for the celebrated work’s 25th anniversary.
The Wind through the Keyhole, By Stephen King
Saturday 28 April 2012
This annex to his 'Dark Tower' series shows a great popular artist who shuns sentimentality
Stephen King: Markets are driven by a future view – and now reality is starting to bear on it
Monday 15 August 2011
Economic Outlook Never assume August is going to be a quiet month. In the first week, we seemed to be on the verge of a financial apocalypse.
Stephen King: Unemployment picture shows that the US economy has lost its vigour
Monday 11 July 2011
The US is limping along. And, as time goes by, the limp is becoming ever more pronounced. The rot set in long before the financial crisis
Stephen King: The eurozone must replace its blank cheques with some real representation
Monday 04 July 2011
Economic outlook: Faced with the loss of fiscal sovereignty, governments could more easily sell 'local austerity' rather than 'Brussels austerity'
Stephen King: Western nations may be forced to sell off some of their prized assets
Monday 20 June 2011
Economic outlook: We have been relying on a pace of economic growth which may now be beyond our reach, a sobering realisation
Stephen King: The UK's monetary independence is a blessing for the eurozone
Monday 16 May 2011
Economic outlook: The devaluation of the pound has had an impact. Oil prices, for example, recently hit a record in sterling terms
Invisible Ink: No 76 - Muriel Gray
Sunday 08 May 2011
Fondly remembered as a TV presenter, this cropped-blonde Scot was a tough-talking broadcaster and journalist in a time of Eighties "yoof" programming, and later appeared on our screens marching up mountains, enthusing about fell walking. What few viewers suspected was that Muriel Gray had a secret life as the author of several terrific (and terrifically creepy) supernatural thrillers.
Stephen King: US policymakers' failure to act has merely justified the S&P downgrade
Monday 25 April 2011
If the US does not ultimately deliver austerity, it may have austerity imposed through the back door
Stephen King: Inflation targeting simply has not worked and now is the time to let go
Monday 11 April 2011
The new behemoths bend, twist and warp prices in ways that make the control of inflation more difficult
Stephen King: More Keynesian than Keynes was – and more wrong than right this time
Monday 04 April 2011
But George Osborne's numbers are also based on some very optimistic assumptions regarding a pick-up in trade
- 1 British business: We need to stay in the European Union - or risk losing up to £92bn a year
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You thought Ryanair's attendants had it bad? Wait 'til you hear about their pilots
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Sam Wallace: The second coming of Mourinho will be a reunion that can only end in tears
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Civil partnerships amendment 'could wreck' gay marriage Bill, Government sources warn
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It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more
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