02.09.08

While I was on holiday my application for an absentee ballot in the general election arrived — the US election, that is

26.08.08

What an undiluted pleasure it was to see Mayor Boris cock up the flag-handing-over at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games

19.08.08

No one should be in the least bit surprised that despite massive public opposition the Government is pressing on with its plans for road pricing, with...
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12.08.08

There are few more depressing descriptions in the English language than "cycling campaigner" - or, for that matter, "motoring organisations"

05.08.08

Why does Rowan Williams bow down before those belligerent African Anglican bishops and their conservative supporters who view homosexuality as...
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29.07.08

I like the Met - and I don't mean that with a trace of sarcasm. On the whole it does a good job of policing a vast, tough, often anarchic city. It...
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22.07.08

James Purnell is a coming man at Westminster, and doubtless, following the resounding acclaim for his Green Paper on welfare, he must think he's...
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18.07.08

I've lived in this little quarter of Stockwell for a decade now and, while when I talk to middle-class friends they automatically assume the worst,...
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15.07.08

There's been no confirmation yet but it looks as if the reclusive graffiti artist, Banksy, may have had his real identity revealed as 34-year-old...
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08.07.08

The Tories new proposals for a "swing" duty on fuel leave me feeling a little sceptical

01.07.08

Zaheer Ahmad, the president of the National Association of Muslim Police, has urged the Home Secretary to launch a "critical review" of racism in the...
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24.06.08

So, Boris has dismissed James McGrath, a senior adviser who is - according to him - a "deeply loyal man who is not a racist". How disloyal can you...
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03.06.08

The fact that Saturday's FaceBook-advertised party on the Circle line to mark the Mayor's new ban on drinking on London's public transport got out of...
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20.05.08

A cabbie friend told me he'd been hailed in a central London street by a woman who was in a hurry to get to Heathrow. After five minutes she got a...
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13.05.08

Will Self cannot help admiring enormously the moral dividend that comes with genuine faith

06.05.08

So, having prevaricated until the 11th hour over whom I would cast my first preference for, I caved in, in the booth, and gave Ken my vote

01.05.08

Back in 1985 I was an inpatient at a drug rehab in the West Country and had genital warts that required regular and painful treatments.

29.04.08

Valentine's Day was a suitable date on which to have broken off my 25-year tryst with the metal, steel and rubber object of my affections

22.04.08

The Baftas have been and gone, and the ugly masks have been put on the mantelpieces

15.04.08

That I'm beginning to feel sorry for Gordon Brown is a bad sign - for him. Politicians always know that when they elicit sympathy from the voters...
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