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    21 December 2010 | Simon Tisdall | Guardian

    President Alexander Lukashenko and his black-shirted riot police have reverted to type, cracking heads and arresting opponents while fabricating a landslide election victory. This was ... read more

    21 December 2010 | George Monbiot | Guardian

    The unusually cold winters of the past two years in the UK are the result of heating elsewhere, writes George Monbiot. The weather here is ... read more

    21 December 2010 | Steve Richards | Independent

    In its first six months, the coalition has accelerated with a dizzier speed than Thatcher in 1979 -- and on more fronts. The politics of ... read more

    21 December 2010 | Hugo Rifkind | Times

    The curse of modern life is the impatience that comes with being within reach of information all the time, writes Hugo Rifkind. For instance, it ... read more

    21 December 2010 | Rachel Sylvester | Times

    The Lib Dems now want the Tories to support them in restricting the City's excesses, having backed them on tuition fee increases, writes Rachel Sylvester. ... read more

    21 December 2010 | Nile Gardiner | Telegraph Blogs

    Several polls show that Barack Obama continues his steep downward spiral after his party's humiliating drubbing at the hands of voters in the November midterms. ... read more

    21 December 2010 | Philip Stephens | Financial Times

    Heathrow Airport is a disgrace -- a two-fingered jeer at any notion that London's future is as a global economic hub, writes Philip Stephens. BAA ... read more

    21 December 2010 | Paul Krugman | New York Times

    Free-market fundamentalists have been proven wrong about everything -- yet they now dominate the US political scene more thoroughly than ever, writes Paul Krugman. The ... read more

    21 December 2010 | Robert Peston | BBC Blogs

    The bosses of the UK's biggest banks will be meeting the Chancellor, George Osborne, but hopes of a deal are slim, writes Robert Peston. The ... read more

    21 December 2010 | Daniel Korski | Spectator

    Events this week will give Barack Obama's liberal credentials a significant boost, writes Daniel Korski. On 18 December, the Senate voted in favour of a ... read more

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