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Get Off Of My Cloud

  • 03 July 2000

Tony Blair and William Hague are both openly consulting religious thinkers. It's 40 years since Mick Jagger and Keith Richards met up as teenagers

Keep It Up

  • 26 June 2000

British lovers were said to be the best in Europe, averaging 21 minutes a session. Women were said to be fed up with new Labour

Tony Blair's 115th Dream

  • 19 June 2000

The Millennium Bridge wobbled. An anti-hunt bill was suddenly introduced - with apologies to Bob Dylan

Knee Jerk

  • 12 June 2000

Austin Mitchell described the Blair administration as "government by knee jerk". The number of army deserters has risen sharply, because of bullying

Worm Perfect

  • 05 June 2000

A French scientist reckons humans have only 28,000 genes, rather than 100,000. This puts them only 9,000 ahead of worms. Gordon Brown accused Oxbridge of elitism

My Cherie Maman

  • 29 May 2000

Stevie Wonder - to whom, apologies - is 50 this week. Leo Blair is 0.

Nero Tolerance

  • 22 May 2000

The film Gladiator opened. William Hague claimed that a "sociological" justice system was not severe enough on the poor and unemployed

We Can Hack It

  • 15 May 2000

Labour suffered some electoral reverses. A computer virus affected 20 per cent of the world's computers

Not For Turning Out

  • 08 May 2000

There was the usual handwringing about low turnout in the council elections

Mandy Boy

  • 01 May 2000

Peter Mandelson is said to be about to be recalled from Northern Ireland to resume control of new Labour's elections (with apologies to Frederick Edward Weatherly)

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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