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Why the St Paul's rebels without a clue can't simply be ignored

18.10.11
However muddle-headed, the St Paul's Square protesters represent a mood of outrage that is sweeping the globe... more

Plan to rebrand Guy Fawkes goes up in smoke

29.09.11
Council chiefs have abandoned plans to rebrand Guy Fawkes Night as 'The Colour Thief: A Winter Extravaganza Celebrating The Change Of The Seasons'... more

Bonfire fright: Council gives Guy Fawkes new name

20.09.11
A London council's plan to rename its official Guy Fawkes night fireworks display was branded 'political correctness gone mad'... more

MPs must not ignore death penalty petition

04.08.11
MPs must not shy away from debating the restoration of the death penalty if a groundswell of voters backs a petition demanding it, the Commons leader has said... more

City Spy: Quango boss may not Wellcome bid

01.08.11
The quango established to tidy up, then flog, Olympic assets is piping up to suggest it can recover at least £1.3 billion for the taxpayer... more

How can we save Parliament Square from this mess?

21.06.11
The peace camp, roadworks and terrorism deterrents have blighted the identity of Westminster and Whitehall... more

Britain is now built on betting, booze and guns

23.02.11
If the British economy were a person, what would he be like? A few decades ago, you wouldn't hesitate. He would wear a bowler hat, his chat would be punishingly dull and he would take the 5.13 from Waterloo home every night smelling faintly of custard creams... more

The better-off go on strike so the poor must suffer

09.11.10
The striking BBC journalists beggar belief — well-paid workers should not use the picket line to get their way... more

Let's do the concert right here

02.11.10
A supermarket, a night club, a ferry — anywhere’s fair game for guerrilla orchestra Spira Mirabilis. Joshua Neicho meets the young players rethinking classical music ... more

Best fireworks displays in London

19.10.10
Wherever you are in London, there’s a fireworks show being planned near you... more

Andrew Marr is wrong — bloggers are good news

13.10.10
Media Analysis: Andrew Marr’s attack reads as if it was made seven or eight years ago, when there were plenty of internet nay-sayers around... more

Bloggers hit back at Andrew Marr's 'drunk people ranting' claim

12.10.10
Bloggers dismiss Andrew Marr's claim that they are 'bald, cauliflower-nosed, young men sitting in their mother's basements and ranting'... more

City Spy: A boast too far for Blair on Bank independence?

03.09.10
One of the (many) contradictions to arise out of Tony Blair’s book A Journey is why, in 13 years, did nobody ever point out that Bank of England independence was not Gordon Brown’s idea as everyone was led to believe but Blair's... more

Keep the police away from our art exhibitions

22.04.10
Ever since the lifting of the Lady Chatterley ban in 1963, the police and public morality have been uneasy bedfellows... more

Don't believe all the e-hype. This isn't an internet election

14.04.10
Media Analysis: This election is being fought very much like every one in the last 30 years or so, through traditional mainstream media... more

MPs accused of expenses fraud face election day in court

30.03.10
Three Labour MPs accused of fiddling their expenses will spend Election Day in court... more

'Thirty years on, we still don't know who abducted our son'

23.12.09
Elderly parents of a teenage boy abducted 30 years ago have issued a final appeal for information about his fate... more

Fireworks displays: Where to see the light fantastic in London

05.11.09
Three days of Guy Fawkes celebrations across London kick off tonight, with dozens of fireworks displays in parks... more

Best bar meals before fireworks in London

04.11.09
Here's our guide to where to warm up before and after this weekend's firework displays.... more

The scariest thing about Halloween

27.10.09
If there's one thing more baffling than seeing the customs of your youth dying before your eyes, it's seeing them resurrected, Night of the Living Dead style, in an unrecognisable form... more

Mervyn’s Premier kicking for banks

22.10.09
Bank of England Governor Mervyn King certainly grabbed the limelight with his Churchillian language about the banking crisis and bailout... more

Bloggers add to the gaiety of the political scene

04.09.09
“All bloggers are gay”. This magisterial judgment, proffered to me by a fellow Westminster journalist not very long ago, summed up the way the mainstream media used to view the upstart “blogosphere”. ... more

The new people power - the rise of the Twittering generation

22.06.09
From brutal pictures of the Iranian election to viral marketing campaigns for the latest pop band, Olivia Cole looks at the growing influence of the Twittering generation... more

Sir Alan Sugar has found a new generation of B'Stards

01.05.09
Ben Clarke, the squat, brace-wearing yuppie parody of The Apprentice, is, at 22, too young to remember the film Wall Street, which was released the year he was born. But the spirit of Gordon Gekko lives on in him, as it does in almost all of this season's vile bodies... more

Health warning: rumours in cyberspace may seriously damage your credibility

15.04.09
Media analysis: One of the major problems in running stories about smear campaigns is obvious...... more

S&P recovery could be Slow & Protracted

01.04.09
Have credit-crunched stock markets reached the bottom and started heading up? Maybe, but it could be a long time before the losses sustained since last October are recouped. ... more

Fuse is lit on London's fireworks fortnight

30.10.08
London's firework season will last almost two weeks this year because of the midweek timing of Guy Fawkes night... more

Oil companies up for grabs but the deals pipeline is blocked

29.09.08
Analysis: Roughneck has acquired the sort of reputation at the racier end of the oil and gas industry that is enjoyed by Guido Fawkes, the notorious Westminster blogger... more

V is for verbose

01.08.06
Natalie Portman shaved off her Star Wars locks for V for Vendetta, but doubts remain about whether it was worth it. Also released is Shooting Dogs and a couple of classics revisited.... more


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