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The single, brilliant idea
Great oratory is the mark of a great leader. Sophie Elmhirst asks politicians, historians and the writers who worked for Clinton and Blair to reveal the secrets of the perfect speech
The real reason Salinger sought escape
The seclusion of J D Salinger and Glenn Gould was a result of psychological damage.
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MPs prepare to vote on electoral reform referendum
Commons expected to approve plans to hold a referendum on the alternative vote system
Banks still not lending enough, warn MPs
Failure to increase lending to small businesses is causing "widespread dismay", says report
Women on hunger strike at Yarl's Wood detention centre
Detainees protest at poor living conditions.
Cameron launches attack on "secretive" Brown
Tory leader will criticise PM as a "shameless defender of the old elite"
Forget Blair – it’s Brown or bust
"Brown can't win" will become a self-fulfilling prophecy unless Labour casts it aside.
Who’s going to “do a Portillo” this time round?
The Tories are aggressively targeting Ed Balls's seat
Leader: It need not be a nightmare on Cameron Street
On electoral reform theTories are once more the party of the status quo
Continental drifters
One of the great cultural shifts of the 20th century was the influx of black American intellectuals into Europe. Their legacy is still with us.
Invictus (12A)
Mandela the Magnificent? Not on this evidence.
To have and to Holden
Leo Robson explains how fans’ devotion to Salinger’s cult anti-hero is misplaced.
Simon says relax
On Helping Haiti's "Everybody Hurts".
Start the world, we want to get on
The Copenhagen debacle gave little grounds for hope of concerted action against climate change, but Anthony Giddens sees a chance for a new beginning
China in their hands
Washington and Beijing are blaming each other on climate change
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Expensive but indispensable: welcome to the commentariat
Press Gazette's editor gives his take on the magazine's top 50 comment writers.
How electoral reform changes the 2005 result
Who would have won and lost from electoral reform in 2005.
Flipping Tory policies prove a flop
At long last David Cameron has admitted large spending cuts cannot be made next year but is George Osborne on board?
India on target for 7.2 per cent growth
India’s economy is to grow at a rate of 7.2 per cent in the year ending March 2010, driven by strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
British Airways posts smaller than expected £50m loss
Bank of England stops £200bn quantitative easing programme
The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has halted its £200bn quantitative easing (QE) programme.
Church of England sells stake in Vedanta
The Church of England (CoE) has said it has sold shares worth £3.8m ($5.9m) in Vedanta Resources after lobbying from groups such as Survival International and ActionAid over the company’s human rights record.
SAP chief resigns unexpectedly
SAP chief executive Leo Apotheker has abruptly resigned from the company after his contract was not renewed by the board in a management reshuffle.
Former Merrill Lynch top boss to head CIT Group
Former Merrill Lynch chief executive John Thain has been appointed the chief executive of US commercial lender CIT Group with an annual package report
Xstrata resumes dividend payouts
The Anglo-Swiss mining group Xstrata has reinstated dividend payouts after a break of a year-and-a-half. A final dividend of 8c per share will be paid
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