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No one gets my vote in this showbiz US election

02.09.08

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

We'll have a better Games without all this ballyhoo

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

Our crush on the car is costing us all too dear

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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My simple plan to make London a real cycling city

12.08.08

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

It's your job to stand up to the bigots, Archbishop

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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Why the Met must come clean about its cock-ups

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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I'm not fooled by Purnell's new welfare conjuring trick

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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Comment: The night my street was turned into a crime zone

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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Banksy lost his street cred the moment he found fame

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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If you want to beat fuel prices just get walking

08.07.08

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

Ghaffur is right - the Met still lags behind on race

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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Only a true hypocrite has never felt racist

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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Boris's Tube ban won't be enough to cure our hangovers

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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If you want to get lost in London, get a sat-nav

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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Salute these mothers who have faith in forgiveness

13.05.08

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

So farewell to Ken's cappuccino fiefdom

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

The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of Aids by Elizabeth Pisani

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.

Final proof I've cracked my addiction to motoring

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

From bonnets to bulletins, the BBC still does TV best

22.04.08

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

If I feel sorry for Gordon he must be in trouble

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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Killer Bimbo quits literary agency PFD

Sue Douglas has parted ways from literary agency PFD. After barely nine months in the job, Douglas, who was once briefly editor of the Sunday Express, has quit as creative director

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