Monday, 18 April 2011
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Leading article: Europe shuts its eyes to the migrant challengeTuesday, 19 April 2011
But Italy's conduct has been just as bad. The Italian government, desperate to see the 25,000 or so migrants who have arrived in the country from North Africa in recent months move on, has issued thousands of temporary residency permits, which allow ...
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Leading article: This vote is too important to be distorted by party politicsMonday, 18 April 2011
Within hours, the Conservative leader, David Cameron, had piped up in defence of Mr Osborne, saying he had been right to speak about the way the Yes campaign was funded, but calling for a reasonable argument on both sides. The impression was left of ...
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Leading article: The unique usefulness of a maverickTuesday, 19 April 2011
While a double-act with Mr Miliband was not obviously the most comfortable perch for Mr Cable – who was making his first public appearance since his caustic criticism of Mr Cameron's immigration speech last week – his contribution served to underline...
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Andy McSmith: Reid was so conservative he made Cameron look like RobespierreTuesday, 19 April 2011
The Prime Minister read his speech briskly, like a man who needed to be somewhere else urgently. Lord Reid of Cardowan took a perambulating stroll in and around his text, savouring the pleasure of appearing alongside a Prime Minister for the first ti...
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Will the last person to leave the Church of England please turn out the lightsMonday, 18 April 2011
It's not the archaism of state occasions that makes me doubt the relevance of the CofE, nor the sight this Lent of a dozen or more clergy crossing the floor to join the Roman Catholics that has made me despair of its future. Nor is it the statistics ...
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Letters: Cycling CampaignMonday, 18 April 2011
The helmet is not tested for impact with motor vehicles, neither is it guaranteed for such an event. So it is impractical to assert that it saved a life. Sheer luck played its part. Compulsory helmet legalisation will lead to the increase of head inj...
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Leading article: Castro the younger's big step forwardMonday, 18 April 2011
In an address that could be as significant for Cuba as Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin was for the Soviet Union, he said the party leadership needed renewal and that those in leading positions, himself included, should be limited to two fi...
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Letters: This generation's only chance to reform votingTuesday, 19 April 2011
AV is not proportional. However, in the meantime it is much better than FPTP and it could easily be converted to proportional STV in multi-member constituencies We thought, before the election, that there would be a good chance that a hung parliament...
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Susie Rushton: Camaraderie goes the distanceTuesday, 19 April 2011
After collapsing two miles from the finish line, Raworth awoke to find herself in a St John Ambulance sick bay, where she had lain unconscious for an hour. Instead of crawling home for a long, cool Lucozade, Raworth continued the race she set out to ...
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Leading article: A world of fine diningTuesday, 19 April 2011
This year's British and European star has to be The Ledbury, tucked away in London's Notting Hill, which bounced on to the list at number 34, as the highest new entry from anywhere. That's the good news for Britain and for the restaurant's Australian...
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Alistair Dawber: Black gold rush was fuelled by enormous untapped potentialTuesday, 19 April 2011
Conservative estimates put about 115 billion barrels of oil beneath the Iraqi desert, ranking the country fourth in the global league table behind Saudi Arabia, Canada and Iran. But even that staggering number does little to explain just how much o...
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Deborah Ross: If you can't afford it, then it's in fashionTuesday, 19 April 2011
Although I am happy to take More Cash Than Dash recommendations, I would like to kick off, if I may, with the new Bugaboo "donkey" pram which costs a minimum of £1,200 and although I do not know what you get for that money exactly, I would certainly ...
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Tom Hadley: Recruitment industry still has a lot of work to doTuesday, 19 April 2011
There are, however, different approaches abroad. I was brought up in France and putting photos on CVs was still happening when I was looking for my first job there 20 years ago. A lot of job seekers look for work in other countries these days, so it ...
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Patrick Cockburn: They denied it was about Iraq's resources. But it never rang trueTuesday, 19 April 2011
Oil companies are intensely interested in what happens in Iraq because it contains some of the world's largest unexploited and under-exploited oilfields. This includes nine "super giants" around Basra each with 5 billion barrels of exploitable crude....
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Leading article: Journey's endMonday, 18 April 2011
But the conjunction of circumstances that led to the complete closure of the M1 into and out of London serves to highlight some critical deficiencies in the infrastructure in one of the most densely populated parts of the country. That a fire could e...
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Julian Baggini: A hard shoulder to cry onMonday, 18 April 2011
The empty road, which used to evoke the longing for escape and travel, now represents release from the constant need to keep moving, whether we want to or not. Not so long ago, motorways were liberators, not oppressors. The most familiar images of th...
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Harriet Walker: Nothing more terrifying than quiet malice of teenage girlsMonday, 18 April 2011
Girls are consistently patted on the back for knuckling down and getting on with their work and enduring the challenges of puberty without jumping on their desks or marking their territory. They are simply quieter than their male peers; female terror...
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Rhodri Marsden: Safety is key, but you can't always avoid the creepsTuesday, 19 April 2011
Only one person at any boy-girl encounter arranged online will be assessing whether the meeting place is sufficiently public, keeping one eye on excessive alcohol consumption, waiting for a friend to text at 9pm to check that all is well and planning...
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