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Drugs rows, Aids denial and the post

  • 05 November 2009

Legalising all drugs would raise billions in revenue

Rory Stewart, Who’s Who and clubs

  • 29 October 2009
  • 1 comment

Stewart is a man of action and a man of letters of a kind you no longer find in British politics

The wrong war, being PC and Bono

  • 22 October 2009
  • 1 comment

Joe Biden could yet rescue the Obama presidency from a military quagmire in Afghanistan

Schools, fools and Rod Stewart

  • 15 October 2009

My modest proposal to undermine public schools

Another Freud, Mrs Brown and cats

  • 08 October 2009

Perhaps David Freud could devote some of his time to getting bankers into useful work

Pangloss, pills and dinner ladies

  • 01 October 2009
  • 2 comments

Gordon Brown should delay the election until 3 June.

Cuts, consultants and book-buying

  • 24 September 2009

The failure to address the underlying causes of crime, drugs and family breakdown costs the UK economy billions

Eat canapé, avoid catastrophe

  • 10 September 2009
  • 1 comment

. . . on the 10:10 luvvies, Keith Waterhouse, and football’s castrati

Sell off the Roads!

  • 03 September 2009
  • 1 comment

. . . on James Murdoch’s bananas, political dynasties and a game of cards

Go on, boycott America

  • 27 August 2009
  • 7 comments

. . . on Lockerbie, knighthoods and the futility of Richard Dawkins

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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