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Bernard Crick: Day of the Bollards, when traffic stood still

scotsman.com
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Published Date: 18 November 2008 ONCE upon a time Edinburgh traffic moved, it really did, slowly but surely, long before the confusion and then the disaster struck. Yet the number of Bollards began to grow exponentially, as if...

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Sir David Hare: This knight is haunted by a sense of betrayal

telegraph.co.uk
15-Nov-2008 1 related
        

He spent years raging against the dying of the Left, then thought he’d found a saviour in Tony Blair. From some higher place, above the squeals and burbles of common discourse, comes the reassuring rumble of Sir David Hare’s...

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David Lister: Who cares about yesterday's men?

independent.co.uk
15-Nov-2008
        

Journalists never fare very well with David Hare. The playwright once wrote that "The Independent is staffed by fools who know nothing about art". That was this paper consigned to the cultural dustbin. And in his latest play,...

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Dangerous Satire: The Bidens at the Naval Observatory

redstate.com
14-Nov-2008
        

a mock transcript Joe and Jill Biden dropped in on Dick and Lynn Cheney today at the U.S. Naval Observatory on Thursday. I could argue that the following transcript accurately reflects what was said, and it just might in a...

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Desperate times need desperate measures: why Gordon Brown must cut tax for the poor

newstatesman.co.uk
13-Nov-2008 229 related
        

Few of us who lived through the recession of the late 1970s and early 1980s can forget the misery caused by high unemployment as the Thatcher counter-revolution destroyed traditional working-class communities, especially in...

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Gethsemane - a footnote to Blair and Brown’s legacy

thefirstpost.co.uk
13-Nov-2008 6 related
        

What works. So let's apply the same test to Hare's latest interpretation of what he terms "public events," and we immediately run into trouble. For the programme contains a note by Hare that says his work is "pure fiction"; in...

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Auditors approve EU accounts for first time in 14 years

accountingweb.co.uk
11-Nov-2008 17 related
        

The European Commission finally got its annual accounts past the European Court of Auditors this week, after fourteen years’ worth of attempts. But while auditors concluded the accounts were a “fair presentation” of the...

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Matthews: Palin 'Talking About God,' is 'Troubling'

newsbusters.org
11-Nov-2008 3 related
        

After airing an interview clip of Sarah Palin telling Fox News' Greta Van Susteren that she was looking for guidance from God about running for the national office again, an appalled Chris Matthews called it "troubling," when...

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BBC Presenter Condemns The Queen Mother As 'A Ghastly Bigot'

theroyalist.net
09-Nov-2008 23 related
        

BBC Presenter Condemns The Queen Mother As 'A Ghastly Bigot' Remembrance Sunday usually heralds tributes to all those soldiers and civilians who served their country in times of war. Edward Stourton, a former BBC TV news...

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Lord Levy and a fundraising fiction

timesonline.co.uk
08-Nov-2008 1 related
        

David Hare’s new play draws some awkward parallels with Labour’s money man Lord Levy faced police questions over new Labour’s cash for honours scandal. However, observers are noting parallels with the fundraising problems that...

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