Morning Call: pick of the papers
The ten must-read comment pieces from this morning's papers. 1. They’re out to get Cameron, but let’s not laugh too soon (Independent) After plebgate and traingate the left longs to see Cameron...
View ArticleCameron's housing benefit myths debunked
New report shows that the number of working people claiming housing benefit has risen by 86 per cent in three years.Tweet David Cameron and George Osborne are fond of describing housing benefit as a...
View ArticleGreg Smith: "It's absolutely gotten worse since the financial crisis"
Business quote of the day."It's absolutely gotten worse since the financial crisis." Greg Smith, former Goldman Sachs banker who has written a book about the way his former firm rips clients...
View ArticleIn defence of Caitlin Moran and populist feminism
Some educated women seem to want to keep feminism for themselves and cloak it in esoteric theory. Feminism has a lot to answer for. In precise terms, it is called upon to answer for 3.3 billion very...
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"Girls": All-consuming narcissism and entitlement are essential to its success
These "Girls" are a voice of their generation, not the voice of their generation.HBO’s new blockbuster for the chattering classes, Girls, opens with 24-year-old Hannah Horvarth getting cut off...
View ArticleThe Mitchell saga shows Tories in a branding emergency
It is a bad sign when what a politician actually said matters less than the kind of things people expect him to say. Why did Andrew Mitchell have to resign from his post as Conservative chief whip? The...
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An evidence-based alcohol policy is receding into the rear-view mirror
Minimum pricing takes a back seat to multibuy bans – and may not even work anyway.Friday brought the news that the government is going to be stepping up it's alcohol strategy and moving beyond the...
View ArticleAmazon accused of using tax loophole
Company charges 20 per cent VAT on ebooks.Amazon is charging British publishers to cover 20 per cent VAT costs on ebooks - despite the online giant paying only 3 per cent under its Luxembourg-based tax...
View ArticleWhat we learned when we met Malala Yousafzai
While travelling through the Swat Valley in 2010, we interviewed the young school girl standing up to the Taliban. We don't expect to switch on the news and see that someone we know has been shot,...
View ArticleeBay accused of tax avoidance
eBay joins the growing list of firms using overseas tax havens to avoid corporation tax. eBay has become the latest in a string of multinational companies to face scrutiny over the use of canny...
View ArticleThe emperor's new stats release
All is not as it seems in last week's employment figures.George Eaton mentioned it over at the Staggers, but the "record high employment" in the last set of jobs figures isn't quite as good as it...
View ArticleNorman Tebbit is confusing the coalition with the Tories
It is Tory ministers, not their Lib Dem counterparts, who are responsible for the "omnishambles". Close but no cigar, Norman Tebbit When you say: This dog of a coalition government has let itself be...
View Article3D printing is enough to make anyone lose their cool
“Oh My God: a chain mail glove!”Wargamers were clearly very excited at the 3D Printshow this weekend. And who can blame them? Dressing up for an evening in would be a lot easier when the outfits were...
View ArticleStudents are leading the way on international development
The Warwick International Development Summit provides a platform for the spread of innovative new ideas.International development nowadays often appears to be a topic that many governments profess to...
View ArticleCameron's "rehabilitation revolution" will struggle at a time of cuts
The PM's "tough and intelligent" approach is welcome. But it is hard to see it working when so many local services are being cut back.David Cameron has today announced that he is to "put rocket...
View ArticlePeter Rippon is unlikely to be the only BBC casualty of the Savile scandal
The question director general George Entwistle must answer is why he still ran the Savile eulogy. A former editor of Panorama said last week that it "beggars belief" that the person who put the eulogy...
View ArticleBP reaches $26bn deal with Russian oil titan Rosneft
State-owned champion becomes world’s largest oil producer.BP today agreed to sell its 50 per cent holding in its Russian joint venture TNK-BP to Rosneft for a cash-and-shares deal worth a reported...
View ArticleRecession fears loom as Japan posts worst September trade figures in 30 years
The Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute and weak global markets hit exports. Japanese export figures for September registered their sharpest decline since the aftermath of the March 2011 tsunami, with overseas...
View ArticleLiveblog: The third and final presidential debate
Nicky Woolf liveblogs tonights debate.10:48PM That was a definite Obama win - so much so that even Fox News is admitting right now that "the President did a good job." If that doesn't scream...
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Barack Obama on Mitt Romney's foreign policy. "The 1980s are calling, they want their foreign policy back." Barack Obama smacks down Mitt Romney in last night's third and final presidential debate.
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