Friday, 14 March 2008
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Leading article: As the credit crunch bites with new vigour, a 'barbaric relic' is revivedSaturday, 15 March 2008
The price of gold has breached the $1,000 per troy ounce mark. It is at record levels, though it would need to double again before it exceeded, in real terms, the previous peak of $850, reached in 1980. It is possible, however. Then, as now, the worl...
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Leading article: Playing for the highest stakesSaturday, 15 March 2008
In recent days, news has reached the outside world of serious disturbances in Tibet, the remote mountain region that has long resented subjugation to the Han Chinese. A failed revolt in 1959 led the Dalai Lama to flee. Reports speak of cars and shops...
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Leading article: A valuable declaration of intent from BrusselsFriday, 14 March 2008
One of the topics under discussion in Brussels is EU energy policy. The presidents and prime ministers of member states are searching for an agreement on how to proceed with the liberalisation of the EU's energy market. This is an agenda very much in...
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Letters: Tory voting rulesSaturday, 15 March 2008
Your readers may think it is fair that sitting candidates should get a preference over other candidates, even if the other candidates are better. But the Conservative party, intent on compounding matters and devaluing my vote, has told me that even i...
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The Weasel: A Futurist in my kitchenSaturday, 15 March 2008
First to appear was my version of the Cubist Vegetable Patch (a demanding arrangement of fried carrots, fried celery, pickled silverskin onions and cold boiled peas). Then followed Mrs W's interpretation of the Bombardment of Adrianopolis (deep-fried...
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Leading article: At the racesSaturday, 15 March 2008
In the end, what had been sold as potentially the most exciting Cheltenham Gold Cup for more than 40 years failed to live up to its billing. There was no dead heat, nor the hoped for noseband-to-noseband last furlong. Denman won fair and square, by s...
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Letters: Gay rights in IranFriday, 14 March 2008
Consistently, for the past week or more, The Independent has taken the lead in covering this story. You've argued this young man's need for British asylum with logic, with courage, and with heart. I hope and pray that Mr Brown's government is simila...
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Leading article: Treat incapacity benefit with careFriday, 14 March 2008
Even so, they are not having it easy. Last month the Health Secretary provoked some derision with his call for GPs to sign "well-notes" to replace what he called the "sick-note culture". In his Budget this week, the Chancellor drew the opprobrium of ...
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Leading article: Boring, boring, boring...Friday, 14 March 2008
To criticise the Chancellor for being boring, however, whether in his monotonal Scots presentation or in the downbeat, rather nit-picking contents of his Budget is to take negativity too far. Yes, it was a tad turgid, but boring is exactly what Mr Da...
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