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Nurses, cricket and anti-Semitism

  • 19 November 2009

We should value nurses' distinctive qualities, not force them to take degrees

Lisbon, chaos theory and poppies

  • 12 November 2009
  • 2 comments

The Tories have deluded themselves that Britain can enjoy trading advantages without the drawbacks of reduced sovereignty

Drugs rows, Aids denial and the post

  • 05 November 2009
  • 1 comment

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

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

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