03.09.08

Employment is falling, inflation rising, the pound collapsing, business confidence evaporating, the unions striking and banks busting

13.08.08

When chief constables said yesterday that they wanted to charge football clubs the full cost of policing games, I wondered about the approval which...
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06.08.08

Parents used to worry when to tell their children not to believe in Father Christmas. After yesterday, they ought to worry when to tell them not to...
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30.07.08

Let me see if I can get Harriet Harman’s proposed reforms to the murder laws straight. She wants to make it harder for men to get away with murdering...
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23.07.08

I first met Anthony Browne, Boris Johnson's new policy director, in the newsroom of The Observer in 2002

16.07.08

Here's a prediction about Harriet Harman's proposal to ban age discrimination in the workplace

09.07.08

When Saddam Hussein's Iraq invaded the Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran in 1980, Henry Kissinger looked at the two ghoulish combatants and said: "It's a pity...
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02.07.08

Never have I seen my working-class neighbours as angry as they are about the motiveless murder of Ben Kinsella

25.06.08

On Friday evening, a warm glow of self-satisfaction will spread through Hyde Park as tens of thousands join Nelson Mandela in celebrating his 90th...
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18.06.08

The British are a stoic people, not given to hanging civil servants from lampposts. We barely raised a murmur at the billions Whitehall wasted on the...
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11.06.08

That the rules in Westminster and Brussels are so broadly drawn and so feebly enforced that freeloading is not technically theft in no way makes the...
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04.06.08

He may be paid £6 million a year but I can't bring myself to join the chorus of complaint about Jonathan Ross: he strikes me as a natural...
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28.05.08

Planting your own vegetables in small London gardens is a near pointless gesture - you need an allotment to produce enough to cut your shopping bill...
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21.05.08

For the past few months, people in authority have been telling us not to let the murders of Steven Bigby and Jimmy Mizen stop us from realising that...
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14.05.08

I've seen the onset of recessions from the late Seventies on but have never seen people expect the worst with such certainty and fatalism as they do...
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07.05.08

The London Left should return to its old principles and treat people equally regardless of colour and creed - or else the BNP may do better next...
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30.04.08

Boris is ahead by a mile. No, it's neck and neck. Livingstone can do it. Don't be ridiculous. The Lib-Dems are in freefall. Wait a minute, they're...
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23.04.08

Schadenfreude is an apt reaction to the news that Deutsche Bank is going to purge the expenses of its lavishly paid financiers

16.04.08

The London media world of Natasha Collins and Mark Speight is mine to an extent and I know its codes and taboos

09.04.08

The Labour tribe has many prejudices against the privileged but not the one that would help Britain most