1 to 10 of 2064
Matthew d'Ancona says David Cameron's talk is of "clearing the battlefield". Which is a nice way of saying, "everything looks like a shambles now, but just imagine what it will be like the week after next when all this bad stuff is out of the way". D'Ancona reports what I had heard, which is that No [...]
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What a wonderful way to end this momentous series in the 50th year of Doctor Who. From the start of the episode you know this is going to be a good episode that will make the audience forgive past mistakes such as Dinosaurs on a Spaceship or the so-so Ring of Akhaten.
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The UK Independence Party is on 19 per cent, the highest share recorded by any pollster, in a ComRes poll for tomorrow's The Independent on Sunday, shared with the Sunday Mirror.
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We have a ComRes opinion poll in The Independent on Sunday tomorrow, shared with the Sunday Mirror. The results will cause a bit of a stir. As well as asking people how they would vote, and who would be the best prime minister, we asked if people agreed or disagreed with the following: If a referendum were [...]
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A tight game could be in prospect here. Northampton have been keeping things very tight of late and it's seen them through to the play-off final.
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Falling a bit behind in the series of the book, Questions To Which The Answer Is No. This is number 947, asked by Huffington Post (alien fish, pictured). Number 948 was asked by Mary Riddell: Will Ed Miliband be the Doctor Who of politics? A bit baffling, that one (unlike all the others). Will he reverse the polarity of the neutron [...]
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Nigel Lawson, Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1979-81 (second from left in picture), told Treasury civil servants at a seminar organised by the Mile End Group two weeks ago (but online only today): There's a reason why you today can feel confident ... Based on the example of what we did in the 1980s, squeezing public [...]
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Let's talk book blurbs, those quotes you get, usually from other writers, that are meant to entice you in. When do they work, and when do they go wrong - when a quote is underwhelming, or over the top, done to death, or even comes from beyond the grave...
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I know Dan Lepard nabbed it first for his wonderful book on baking but I'm eternally jealous, as it combines a perfect wordplay and one of my favourite things, so I'm going to pretend it's not stealing and use it just this once.
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Much has been written this past week about a Syrian rebel named Khalid al-Hamad, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Sakkar, and who gained notoriety after a video emerged of him appearing to eat part of a dead pro-government fighter's lung.
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