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Recession blues

newstatesman.co.uk
13-Nov-2008 18 related
        

Both Labour and Tories have yet to confront the realities of the downturn - least of the full horror of the return of mass unemployment. Martin Bright reports Anyone who has ever experienced the misery of unemployment will have...

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FactCheck: jobs, fuel and spending

channel4.com
12-Nov-2008 1 related
        

The claim "We have created three million jobs in the last 10 years." Gordon Brown, Prime Minister's Questions, 12 November 2008 The analysis Well, it's more like 2.5 million in the last 10 years, but closer enough to three...

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NIGHT PROWLS BOYARDE MESSENGER

blurb.com
12-Nov-2008
        

Boyarde Messenger is acknowledged as one of London’s most exciting ‘up and coming’ photographers. A major solo show of her works Sacred & Profane presented by The Cynthia Corbett Gallery will be exhibited at the prestigious...

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Beyond a joke?

bbc.co.uk
11-Nov-2008 3 related
        

The George Bush presidency has been rich pickings for those in one line of work - comedy. But with Barack Obama's election win steeped in historical significance, is America's new leader beyond comic reproach? By John...

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Just Be Thankful It Is Not Scratch And Sniff

freakytrigger.co.uk
11-Nov-2008
        

This years winner for the Anti-Date Movie Of The Year at the BAFTA’s is already a given, Steve McQueen’s Hunger will kill that burgeoning relationship stone dead. There is nothing like a dirty protest to turn a date off. But...

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Scratching a living

bigblog.com
11-Nov-2008
        

It's as inevitable as a middle-order collapse or a Steve Harmison wide: sooner rather than later a cartoonist puts pen to paper and scribbles a drawing encapsulating the eccentricity, frustration, peculiarity, joy or sheer...

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Linda Colley: Barbara Obama would not have stood a chance of election to the Oval office

guardian.co.uk
11-Nov-2008 281 related
        

The true outsider in this presidential race was not the president-elect, but a white woman with no Ivy League credentials A week has gone by, and it is still lingeringly glad morning. Across the continents, the prospect of a...

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Obama Watch: Wenger’s Wonder, Michelle’s Liz Hurley, John Major And Blacks Before Women

anorak.co.uk
11-Nov-2008
        

BARACK Obama Watch: Wenger’s Wonder, Michelle’s Liz Hurley And John Major… ARSENE WENGER, manger of Arsenal football club on why he is sticking with his policy of picking youth over experience: “You have Barack Obama in the...

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Column: Time to set sights on Olympics 2012

rediff.com
11-Nov-2008 1 related
        

Given our national/media obsession with cricket, it was no surprise that the week-long third Commonwealth Youth Games, which concluded in Pune on October 18, did not make a splash. India topped the medals table with 76, which...

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Can Britain Elect Its Own Barack Obama?

bbcamerica.com
11-Nov-2008 16 related
        

It's institutional racism." MP Adam Afriyie, who, like Obama, is biracial, concurs that there are institutional barriers to a black Prime Minister: "In the U.S. a fresh face like Obama can make it in one electoral cycle. In...

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