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Harry Mount

We’ve had the spill, now let’s ‘drill baby drill’

Ever since offshore oil was discovered in the Gulf Coast in the Fifties, the economy around Louisiana has relied on black gold

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Agflation, slowflation: the recession dictionary

The fun to be had in coining terms will stop abruptly if the Bank of England gets things wrong

80:20 - Do these magic numbers really rule our lives?

The Chancellor made a big point of the importance of an 80/20 split in his Emergency Budget speech this week. Harry Mount looks behind the theory to find why this ratio is thought so central to modern existence

Never mind GCSEs, judge students by their howlers

Another summer, another sun-dappled shot of pretty 16-year-girls hyperventilating at their GCSE results

Get set for the micro-speech

Head down to a Pecha Kucha night where anyone can give a talk so long as it's quick. But, says Harry Mount, the ultimate faux pas is to be boring

Cancel the Priory - Susan needs the folks back home

The best thing for Susan Boyle would be to return to her beige, pebble-dashed, semi-detached house in West Lothian and never appear on television again


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