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PETER OBORNE: Could the man who came back from the dead now spring a sudden election?

Thursday night's by-election victory for Labour will go down in history as a seismic event. Glenrothes has reshaped Britain's political landscape, marks the final stage of the rehabilitation of Gordon Brown and paves the way...

Waiting game

Soldiers shot 13 people dead in Derry on Bloody Sunday The report of the Saville Inquiry into Bloody Sunday has been delayed until the autumn of 2009, causing huge disappointment to relatives. January 30 1972 - forever Bloody...

Film review: OSS 117: Cairo - Nest Of Spies

Perhaps I shouldn't have laughed as much I did, but this French spy spoof by Michel Hazanavicius punches out cheeky gags and incorrect humour with the gusto of Zucker/Abrahams or Mike Myers in his Austin Powers heyday. There's...

Larry Elliott: Late cut in interest rates shows Bank of England to be way behind the curve

Mervyn King will have the simplest task in the world next Wednesday when he unveils the Bank of England's quarterly inflation report. His statement should be short and concise: eleven words should suffice. "We made a total hash...

The real reason why women buy lingerie

Do you know men who care about their underwear? I don’t. Most men I know treat underwear at par with socks as something you have to wear but which most people will not see properly and which therefore, is not worth spending too...

Barack Obama: All the Presidents' dogs

If you want a friend in Washington,” Harry Truman said, “get a dog.” He was commenting on what a brutal, backbiting, primordial swamp the capital is. But the sentence could just as well be taken to mean: you won't make friends...

And The Winner Is...

As the entries poured in for our game of Trivial Fursuit (bada bing, Allison Y.!), one thing became clear: Those who love Teh Qte are Teh Smrt. Out of over 540 entries in 8 hours, most of you displayed your...

The Lunatics Are Taking Over The Asylum

The doomsters have it. Those people who've been predicting the house price collapse for years have been proven correct. Those people who've been saying the stock market is over-valued and just a gamble have been proven correct....

Financial crisis is great news for Australia

You know how sometimes a mad idea can occur to you in the middle of the night and then develop swiftly from an idea to a theory to a near-certainty? By the time dawn breaks, you realise that you've just...

Wacky World: Obama The Hammer

He's may be the most powerful and popular person in the world after romping to a landslide victory in Tuesday evening's American election, but what we really want to know about Barack Obama isn't what he's going to do to save...