Saturday, 6 November 2010
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Leading article: Tread carefully, Mr CameronSunday, 7 November 2010
That is why Mr Cameron's employment of a group of apparently party political image-makers as temporary civil servants is so dangerous to him. There is much more at stake here than a frankly academic dispute about the politicisation of the Civil Servi...
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Leading article: A travesty – but Burma's election should not be totally written offSaturday, 6 November 2010
Twenty years ago, Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy shocked the country's military rulers by winning 80 per cent of the vote. That was not supposed to happen then, and the junta has taken elaborate precautions to ensure that there is n...
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Andrew Martin: We may be useless at DIY, but taking pleasure in housework is a man's rightSunday, 7 November 2010
his inability to wire a plug or countersink a screw. He has in mind mainly DIY skills, but he also damns those men who can't iron a shirt. I can iron a shirt, and anyone who wants to learn can jolly well read my book, How To Get Things Really Flat, w...
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Douglas Alexander: Jobs, not threats, get families off welfareSunday, 7 November 2010
He was right, but it's also true that the tasks confronting Labour are what we came into politics for – to defend the vulnerable and allow everyone the chance to work and realise their potential. Because for Labour, effective opposition will never be...
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DJ Taylor: The West's days are numbered, ask any BBC history hunkSunday, 7 November 2010
First we had Prime Minister David Cameron and President Nicolas Sarkozy announcing the creation of a landmark Anglo-French defence alliance taking in everything from shared aircraft carriers to nuclear warhead development and rapid reaction forces. T...
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Letters: Housing benefit reform and landlordsSaturday, 6 November 2010
It is unjust and economic madness that a family claiming housing benefit can elect to live in a house costing up to £104,000 a year to rent, at taxpayers' expense, while working people have to make choices to live in a home they can afford. The inten...
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Leading article: When victory is won by deceitSaturday, 6 November 2010
Perhaps the new Labour leader wanted to show his confidence in a colleague under attack, or perhaps he believed this ruling to be so unlikely as to be a risk he could ignore. It is, after all, the first time in 99 years that a parliamentary election ...
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Tim Luckhurst: It's time for an outstanding Director-General to bow outSaturday, 6 November 2010
His commitment to Britain's unique model of public service broadcasting is absolute. An excellent journalist himself, Thompson has done much to instil his values in a generation of BBC journalists. So it is a measure of how far his reputation has fal...
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IoS letters, emails & online postings (7 November 2010)Sunday, 7 November 2010
It is true there are more afternoon accidents than morning, but reliance on statistics from 3pm–7pm makes no sense. At 3pm it is still light everywhere in the UK, year round, under BST or GMT, and by 6pm it would be dark in winter everywhere under ei...
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Susie Mesure: Who said the sisterhood was dead? The BBCSunday, 7 November 2010
Or more specifically, her female boss Jay Hunt, the then BBC One controller, who, O'Reilly told a tribunal, "hated women" enough to sack her and three female colleagues. The quartet, all over 40, were shown the door just in time for Countryfile to mo...
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Paul Vallely: Sexed-up contrariness is not journalismSunday, 7 November 2010
There is more to that thought than whimsy. We had several good examples last week of how the news reshapes reality. First, Dr David Nutt, the Government's former chief adviser on drugs, who was sacked last year for being too political, produced a new...
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Katy Guest: Sorry I'm a letdown to the cleverest man in the country...Sunday, 7 November 2010
His disappointment stems (in case you're one of the three people in Britain not following Mr Fry on Twitter) from an interview he gave to Attitude magazine. "I feel sorry for straight men," he said in it. "The only reason women will have sex with the...
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Old foes, nasty news, John Major Syndrome, and an arresting outfitSunday, 7 November 2010
* News from the United States that The National Enquirer may not be that much longer for this world – the firm that owns it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection – has prompted a flurry of nostalgic stories about some of its more lurid headl...
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John Sandwich: The coalition says this will be a priority. That's what the last government said, tooSunday, 7 November 2010
The reason I put the question is that a relative of mine has been badly let down by the medical profession, which originally prescribed him clonazepam (a benzodiazepine, like Valium) as a sleeping aid in 2002. For the past 19 months, he has lived a h...
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Harriet Walker: 'I'm forgoing hedonism for a night of Chinese gooSunday, 7 November 2010
When I saw it on the news, I felt sick and jealous by turns at the thought of how much fun my (slightly skanky) peers were having and how much they all loved each other. Patting strangers on the back and telling them they're beautiful; watching cheap...
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Leading article: Pram warsSaturday, 6 November 2010
If you've ever found any similarity between those giant three-wheel versions and a wheelbarrow, or dared to object at being shoved off the pavement by a proudly pushy mum or dad, now is the time to permit yourself a smug little smile. As bigger, bett...
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Amy Jenkins: Why must a woman's sexual capital be the key to her worth?Saturday, 6 November 2010
If you've made it to being an exception, you've probably also made it to being a dame. However, if you're the 53-year-old presenter of a BBC show called Countryfile, you haven't got a hope in hell. Miriam O'Reilly was just that – and despite being ex...
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Rebecca Front: 'I find myself planning the day around weeing opportunities'Saturday, 6 November 2010
I thought about this the other day when my daughter asked me what my favourite iPhone app was, this being her generation's version of "Where do babies come from?", a question pretty well guaranteeing an embarrassing answer. Imagine, then, her delight...
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Matthew Bell: The IoS Diary (07/11/10)Sunday, 7 November 2010
Married or not, Kate Moss hasn't lost any of her allure. Her latest conquest is the social dynamo and arbiter of all things common, Nicky Haslam, whose face she was spotted chewing off at the launch of Bryan Ferry's new album at the Dean Street to...
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Simmy Richman: Rant & Rave (07/11/10)Sunday, 7 November 2010
"There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability to conceal it," wrote Mark Twain, whose autobiography has finally been published, 100 years after his death, just as he insisted. And who doesn't attempt to conceal those aspects of the...
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John Rentoul: Vince Cable: work on a building site to pay student fees up frontSaturday, 6 November 2010
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