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It's not cricket!

  • 03 February 2009

If you are planning a long journey with Andy Burnham, take a supply of comics, colouring books and cartons of juice to keep him occupied

Emma Thompson and me

  • 20 January 2009
  • 1 comment

When Tony Slattery and Stephen bloody Fry turned up and started mwah-mwahing and calling one another “darling” I became grateful for the jets passing overhead

No time for comedy...

  • 06 January 2009

The economic crisis, the relentless attacks on Gaza and a very real threat to trainspotting. Jonathan Calder returns with his unique perspective of the world

Stalin's lovechild

  • 08 December 2008
  • 2 comments

The rozzers enter Westminster without a warrant, help themselves to the contents of an MP’s office and Labour’s leading London politician complains the Mayor has not been supportive enough

Aaronovitch and me

  • 25 November 2008
  • 2 comments

The Stiperstone's most famous resident on his love of good music and dislike of David Aaronovitch. Plus the strange story of making Simon Hoggart cry

Tory MP: Ferry political prisoner

  • 11 November 2008
  • 2 comments

Until now, Kawczynski has been as keen on locking up people as any Tory backbencher. Only this summer he moaned the government is “simply not building enough prisons”

Manners and the super-rich

  • 27 October 2008

Magnates and oligarchs now spend most of their time on their yachts - hence Roman Abramovich’s strange rolling gait when he visits Stamford Bridge

Labour's private school heroes

  • 13 October 2008
  • 5 comments

Jonathan Calder looks down with bafflement from the top of the Stiperstones at the Labour Party's attitude to education

Labour's film stars

  • 30 September 2008

I have been told that Glenda Jackson, an obscure backbencher who was briefly a transport minister, appeared in a film once. It sounds unlikely to me

The truth about Darling

  • 15 September 2008
  • 1 comment

'Darling may be miserable, but the trajectory of his career will keep anyone with a long memory laughing through the recession.' Plus paedophiles, penguins and Telford

David Blanchflower

Cameron flip flops

Flipping Tory policies prove a flop

Interview

Clive James

The NS interview: Clive James

Political speeches

Our top ten

Great political speeches

Film review

Invictus

Invictus (12A)

Andrew Stephen

The real Salinger

The real reason Salinger sought  escape

Mark Watson

Preparing for fatherhood

Immaculate conception

John Gray

A cure for genocide?

Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity

Simon says relax

Charity singles

Simon says relax

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