Monday, 9 April 2007
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Leading article: He who pays the piper calls a dubious tuneMonday, 9 April 2007
The official reasoning seemed to be that the stories of the 15 would get out sooner or later, probably sooner, and there was nothing anyone could do about it. The rulebook might say that serving personnel were not allowed to enter into financial arra...
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Leading article: The most crucial contest for a generationTuesday, 10 April 2007
Of the 12 candidates registered, only four have a chance of reaching the second round. The others, representing the further reaches of left and right, the urban and rural, can be enjoyed as features of the rich landscape of French politics. Their onl...
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Letters: Cricket World CupMonday, 9 April 2007
The extremely high cost of match tickets has priced out most of the local population which always forms the bulk of the support, and the result is new stadiums which are at times nearly empty. Draconian rules prevent fans from taking food and drink i...
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John Lichfield: Our Man In ParisMonday, 9 April 2007
The building is new by Paris standards but the internal plumbing - like the plumbing throughout the city - is a rusting, rotting mess. Unwelcome liquids cascaded down upon the BBC bureau from the apartments upstairs the other day: probably the 20th t...
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Hermione Eyre: A foul trap for all the cyber-innocentsTuesday, 10 April 2007
Joining Facebook is a bit like applying a leech to your lifeblood. This is a social networking site with more than 10 million members worldwide, which only goes to show what danger there is in numbers. You begin casually, just browsing. But you can't...
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Charles Nevin: Consolation from the great stage of foolsMonday, 9 April 2007
Besides, the sun is shining and there is much to distract the reader's eye - the promise of spring, the flicker of dappled light, the song of the birds - in this all-too-brief moment snatched from the many competing demands of the modern bank holiday...
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Russell Brand lets loose on MSNBC hosts in promo interview for Messiah Complex tour
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We never knew Nigella Lawson - and we still don’t
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The Daily Cartoon
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Should we intervene? Our response to the Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson assault is shocking too
Stig Abell -
This isn’t ending world hunger. It’s just a sham
Ian Birrell
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Russell Brand lets loose on MSNBC hosts in promo interview for Messiah Complex tour
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Our love for the NHS blinds us to its failures. Morecambe Bay is yet another wake up call
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The Girl Guides have nothing to do with religion and they never have done
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Fifty signs of getting older? They missed a few
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Letters: Islam and assaults on women
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The problem with the Taliban peace talks is not women, it’s their absence
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