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McCain tries to steal message of change from Obama

guardian.co.uk     7 hrs ago   61 related          

US election: McCain tries to steal message of change from Obama, but delivery falls flat • Republican nominee reaches out to independent voters • Militaristic tone dominates night devoted to 'peace' Link to this video...                    

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Martin Kettle: Change offered by McCain but no outline of how to achieve it

guardian.co.uk     7 hrs ago   16 related          

John McCain certainly seized his moment. In what was clearly the most important speech of his political career, the Republican presidential nominee put himself boldly at odds with the politicians and the politics that...                    

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Simon Jenkins: The great hope of local politics has become Margaret Thatcher in a kilt

guardian.co.uk     12 hrs ago   32 related          

The wax is melting. Like Margaret Thatcher before him, Salmond's downfall will date from the day he began to meddle with Scottish taxes. On Wednesday Salmond rose in the Scottish parliament and proposed a "local" income...                    

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Obama and the shy conservatives

agoravox.com     18 hrs ago          

The "Shy Conservatives" may sound like an endearing breed, but in their quiet way they have frustrated liberal hopes and confounded pollsters on both sides of the Atlantic for some years. In the general election of 1992,...                    

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Wisdom teeth

newstatesman.co.uk     yesterday          

Can't find an NHS dentist? Don't despair, it may soon be easier than you think. Private dentists, it seems, are flocking back to the fold patient: How much to have this tooth pulled? dentist: £180. patient: £180 for just...                    

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Gordon Brown proves the Peter Hennessy theory: politicians fail through their strong points

guardian.co.uk     yesterday          

Andrew Sparrow: I've heard it before, but there's a particularly good version of it in Sue Cameron's column in the FT today – the theory that politicians ultimately fail not because of what they are bad at, but because of...                    

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Lord Waldegrave to be Eton provost

guardian.co.uk     03-Sep-2008          

Former Thatcher-government minister Lord Waldegrave has been chosen as the new provost of Eton College, it was announced today. The appointment of the 62-year-old, who was an Eton and Oxford scholar, has been given the...                    

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Where were you when you heard about...

gracchii.blogspot.com     02-Sep-2008          

I was half asleep. To be fair I remember being half asleep and my brother coming into my room and saying Diana's dead and we went down and watched it on TV. I can't remember anything else about it- apart from the fact...                    

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People: Adam Sherwin

timesonline.co.uk     02-Sep-2008          

D:ream scenario for particle physics switch-on Excitement is growing before the big switch-on for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, where the world’s most powerful particle physics experiment will take place...                    

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Marsh on Monday: Economic malaise comes back to bite Britain's Brown

marketwatch.com     01-Sep-2008          

Once again, an ambitious ex-chancellor of the exchequer takes over for a retiring prime minister and is hit by economic malaise. For Gordon Brown, it will be a slow process, and the outcome, unfortunately for him, seems...                    

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