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New body scanners are a step too far for airport securityI cannot help but see a comical element in the newest frenzy for security created by the ‘Osama to Obama’ message, in which a voice presumed to be...» Read Article |
David Cameron is far from the British ObamaIt seems perfectly obvious that David Cameron just doesn’t fit. This is a man, a face, an accent, in fact an entire genetic make-up, who has somehow...» Read Article |
Expectations of beauty affect both the sexesIt has been said a thousand times and will be a thousand more, but beauty is a fickle thing. Everybody wants to be it, and most will do anything to ge...» Read Article |
The much-abused musical is the modern heir of operaMany people who know me are aware of my deepest and most shameful passion. I persist in indulging in something that is still looked down on, even disa...» Read Article |
I’ll make up my own mind, thanks, Mister MurdochSky and NewsCorp are slowly destroying impartial, intelligent news. Partisan hackery will result. Back in August, James Murdoch, son of media tycoon R...» Read Article |
Gordon Brown should take heart from the 2009 AshesIt seems impossible but I suppose some of you must have missed our nation’s most spectacular victory in the summer. The cataclysmic feat of the Engl...» Read Article |
The Noughties have been a truly terrible decade for us allThe Noughties were a terrible decade, good riddance! Matt Urwin So we’ve come to the end of the Noughties. The decade that brought us America’s fi...» Read Article |
Christmas is a commercialised secular holiday, and so what?I can already hear the keyboards clicking away; the sound of a thousand middle class hacks blurting out another addition to their annually expanding c...» Read Article |
Love it or hate it, Lotto has made millions for good causesIt is a familiar situation; the family congregates and the television blares, whilst all eyes divert frantically from the television screen before the...» Read Article |
Does the Lisbon Treaty spell death for the European Union?Czechia locuta est: causa finita est. The first of December marked the entering into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, the final piece in the European Un...» Read Article |
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