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The wise, the blunt and the Glasgow kiss

  • 07 February 2008

Here is what is shockingly different about Soros: he turned up without a minder, exhibited no pomposity and spoke almost no bollockese

Paradise without the politics

  • 31 January 2008

The truth was, the civil war seemed a million miles away and the most urgent situation "on the ground" was Gore Vidal's lost luggage

Trevor's six-pack

  • 24 January 2008

In my old job at Sky I wasn't recognised often. One woman was convinced she knew me because she thought I worked at M&S in Richmond

What's the point of “church” ?

  • 17 January 2008

The nation's debt crisis may not seem a very spiritual matter, but any free counsel the C of E can give is to be commended

Drink, dictators and belly dancers

  • 10 January 2008
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Hearing the UK and US drone on about democracy in Pakistan makes me sick: Musharraf would remain a dictator even if he donned a tutu

Pens, rulers, fists - and tears

  • 03 January 2008

Being unemployed would be fine if you knew in nine months you'd land a dream gig. So it's a finite period, and you can have a ball, or learn Italian, or watch Jeremy Kyle

The chance to begin again

  • 13 December 2007

A fire, a cat, carols on Christmas Eve and cabbage picked from the garden. Certain rituals cannot be improved upon

I can't play the piano but let me blow my trumpet

  • 06 December 2007

Christmas purists will protest that it's too early to go festive, but it's only once a year and I want to make the most of it

A very predictable furore

  • 29 November 2007

The most irritating aspect of the Nick Griffin-David Irving show is that it's allowed this hoary story to dominate the headlines

The entente was truly cordiale

  • 22 November 2007

Since, as everyone knows, the French are more intelligent than anyone else, it was only fair that they set themselves handicaps, such as the 35-hour week

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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