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Out of control

  • 29 April 2002

Poem of the month by Dennis O'Driscoll

Suicide Bomber

  • 22 April 2002

Public Bespoke

  • 15 April 2002

Musharraf threatened India with the atom bomb. Voice coach Philippa Davies described the effect of techniques making politicians sound "significant and secret" as "an auditory cuddle"

Cut!

  • 01 April 2002

"Body Worlds" preserves "plastinated" corpses. EMI is cutting rock acts, Consignia is cutting jobs. A Labour "stalking-horse" was suggested

Kama Sutra Chameleon

  • 25 March 2002

Back-bench MPs were said to be considering Tony Blair's future. A new translation of the Kama Sutra is out this week

Your Country Needs You

  • 18 March 2002

A new government initiative to market rural areas was launched by Joan Collins. Its slogan is "Your Countryside, You're Welcome"

Eddie Willing and Able

  • 11 March 2002

"Working and playing hard is fun as long as it's rewarding" - Prince Edward, on giving up his TV company job to help the Queen with her jubilee

Rats!

  • 04 March 2002

Spring has come early, and rats are breeding throughout the year. Tony Blair asked that the next hundred years be spent "as far as possible" under a Labour government (with apologies to Robert Browning)

Her Moles Go Marching On

  • 25 February 2002

(with apologies to Anonymous)

The Popular Will

  • 18 February 2002

Will Young won Pop Idol after eight million phoned the programme. He is a politics graduate - unlike George Bush

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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