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The five must-read blogs from today, including how Miliband can fill the vacuum.
View ArticleWhere does the European impasse now leave Britain?
One month on, Cameron's veto looks an even greater folly.
View Article"Divide and rule"? Diane Abbott was right
The privileged will do anything to distract attention from their own power.
View ArticleFear and optimism mingle uneasily in Tahrir Square
Looking ahead to the first anniversary of the Arab Spring, Egyptians hope to finish in 2012 what they began last year.
View ArticleDiane Abbott, Paul Flynn and Labour's queasy tolerance of the intolerable
Some in the party complacently assume historic anti-racist credentials are a permanent inoculation against racism.
View ArticleEd Miliband cannot be radical and cautious at the same time
The Labour leader indulges contradictory positions in his entourage. He needs to choose a course and stick with it.
View ArticleLabour needs an argument about the state not just the deficit
It's time to start a blunter conversation about tax and spending choices.
View ArticleDid no-one spot that Britain is leaving the EU in five years' time?
It didn't get much attention but a draft European treaty leaked last week maps out a course that, if pursued, will surely push the UK out of the Union.
View ArticleA diet is for life
Feeling a bit on the porky side post-Christmas? Thought of taking that new wonderdrug that friends say will help you shed your flab in a fortnight? Dont believe the hype, urges Felicity Cloake.
View ArticleRun with the dogs tonight
Leo Hollis moves to the suburbs and discovers a new kind of vibrancy.
View ArticleShe knew she was right
The Iron Lady is a ghoulish spectacle when its subject is still alive, writes the former foreign secretary Douglas Hurd. Nonetheless, this film about Margaret Thatcher aims high and is almost a...
View ArticlePity the Billionaire: the Hard Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the...
Misreading how America bought in to the Tea Party.
View ArticleEndeavour (ITV1)
When you've run out of ideas, dont write a prequel, suggests Rachel Cooke.
View ArticleGod need not be the enemy of science
New atheists like Richard Dawkins are wrong to insist that modern science can no longer be reconciled with religious belief, argues Mehdi Hasan. In fact, there are many distinguished scientists who...
View ArticleThe NS Interview P J ORourke
The great gonzo satirist and former writer for National Lampoon and Rolling Stone talks libertarianism, American satire today, Barack Obama, Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.
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