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24.09.09
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Brown and Obama bring Gaddafi in from the cold

10.07.09
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My surefire cure for voter apathy

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No doubt many MPs will hope that the plans to overhaul their expenses system, whatever the eventual form of the Bill that gets passed, will help a sceptical public get past its anger and rediscover its faith in the political system. That hope is deeply misguided... more

Forbes family sells £5 million art hoard from their London home

09.06.09
The sons of the late flamboyant publishing magnate Malcolm Forbes are selling £5million of artwork from their London home... more

Go-ahead for Reagan statue

22.05.09
Former US president Ronald Reagan is set to be honoured with a statue in central London... more

Generous spirit behind visions of a bleak future

20.04.09
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The Madoff investors who got what they asked for

17.03.09
There's nothing funny about the Bernie Madoff scandal. Nothing at all. Except it's hard to shake the feeling that some of his victims got exactly what they voted for... more

Mikhail Gorbachev calls for world unity on Standard visit

12.03.09
Mikhail Gorbachev used a visit to the Evening Standard to call for a new era of international co-operation - and urged America to stop acting as the world's policeman... more

Obama lifts ban on federal cash for stem cell research

09.03.09
President Barack Obama plans to lift his predecessor George Bush's restrictions on federal funding for stem cell research... more

Pound rallies against dollar after hitting 24-year low

22.01.09
The pound staged a small rally today, but investors remained extremely bleak in their forecasts for the currency... more

Today will send a message more powerful than ever

20.01.09
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They may be turkeys but banks don't need trussing

18.12.08
We're not going to escape a Dangerous Banks Act - the best we can hope for is that it doesn't make things worse... more

More sex, truths and video tape in Dispersion

03.12.08
Dispersion fulfils one of the criteria laid down for the ICA by its co-founder, Herbert Read, in 1965: to be “an adult play centre”.... more

Obama adviser boosts New York Fed chief's US Treasury chances

20.11.08
Economics: The odds on Tim Geithner becoming the next US Treasury Secretary have shortened after a key Barack Obama adviser said he would be a "superb" candidate... more

Just now, it's OK to be American in Paris

14.11.08
The surrealness of it struck me yesterday at Bon Marché. The man at the exchange counter, usually so surly, asked me my nationality. I got ready to do the usual: bowing my head with shame and whispering so no one could hear: "Americaine".... more

Robin Williams is still a master of comedy

14.11.08
There are better storytellers but Robin Williams oozed the kind of charisma umpteen lesser clowns would kill for at his stand-up gig at the Gielgud Theatre.... more

Yes he did – the day change came to the US

05.11.08
Barack Obama faces a mountain of problems as President - but his runaway triumph today gives his country fresh hope... more

Can Alistair Darling spend his way out of trouble?

21.10.08
By pledging funds for public projects the Chancellor is not only buying himself some time - he is gambling on calming fears and lifting our spirits... more

‘Red Boris’ and a bold gamble for Tory hearts

29.09.08
After Boris’s speech in Birmingham yesterday, it finally seems to be dawning on the brighter members of the Ken Livingstone Fan Club that they were wrong about him... more

Boris should play hardball with Bob Crow

12.08.08
The Tube unions certainly don't try hard to make friends. The threat this week of a series of different stoppages on the Underground suggests the stage is being prepared for a stand-off between the unions and Boris Johnson, who has promised a no-strike agreement... more

Darling offers too little, too late to stop exodus

28.07.08
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Never under-estimate the power of self-belief

23.07.08
Barack Obama arrives in London this weekend, his fight to become President still on. But his moral seriousness puts him in a class apart from our own politicians... more

Applegarth has some more explaining to do

22.07.08
Simon English discusses the book The Fall of Northern Rock, George Soros's latest bets, the price of oil, and the Carter administration... more

BBC in mourning after veteran foreign correspondent Sir Charles Wheeler dies at 85

04.07.08
Veteran journalist Sir Charles Wheeler - one of the BBC's longest serving foreign correspondents - has died from lung cancer at the age of 85. ... more

In the race for Mayor, let's all vote for the trees

04.04.08
Ronald Reagan once said that trees cause more pollution than automobiles do. Some wag responded by putting up signs on trees, begging "Cut me down before I kill again"... more

Off the record

08.02.08
David Smyth asks which US presidential candidate has the best tunes and highlights the hobo set to play a gig at the Royal Albert Hall.... more

Fall of the angels

27.06.07
The new production of seven-hour epic Angels in America forced Nicholas de Jongh to eat his words of praise from 15 years ago... more

Clint's not a cowboy after all

12.10.06
Clint Eastwood, Hollywood's most famous Republican, used to make gung-ho movies, but his latest is anti-war. As he tells Mike Goodridge, he didn't mean it to be unpatriotic.... more

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