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The Lefties it's OK to love

In this week's NS, the left told us which Tories they love. But is that love reciprocated?

The isolation of day-to-day life feels harder than ever to beat

Reaching out to other human beings ought to be the easiest thing. Why do I find it so difficult?

My zero tolerance for these politicised police chiefs

They have forgotten their most important directive: they police with our consent.

A black and white issue

The culling of badgers is irrelevant, malicious and ineffective.

Cameron in trouble? Oh, please. . .

Until someone can show me that the Prime Minister has broken a law, I'm happier not to join in all the shouting.

I want to be a camera

Listening is more important for a writer than the active imposition of "a greater truth".

Miliband matters as much as Hague did

No one cares how Labour chooses its shadow cabinet. They've already chosen a man who will never be prime minister.

Greeks bearing debts

The euro was a bad idea in 1999, and it's a disaster now.

The New Towns have made us a better nation

If Labour wants something to be proud of, it should look no further than Britain's New Towns.

The Laws and coming out

It is impossible to detach consideration of David Laws’s misdeeds from the cultural acceptance of homosexuality.

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