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Premier League: Manchester United v Everton - as it happened | Tom Lutz

Everton face the imposing challenge of a visit to Old Trafford to face the Premier League champions in today's late kick-off. Rio Ferdinand is still out for United, but Nemanja Vidic is expected to return to shore up the...

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Peter Mandelson bets on two sure-fire losers

A faint smile flickered across the lips of the Son of Heaven as Barack Obama left the Great Hall of the People in Beijing with a flea in his ear. The creditor-in-chief to America had given his suppliant a humiliating lecture...

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Lib Dems can keep fraudster's £2.4m

The Liberal Democrats have received a boost to their election plans after the donations watchdog ruled they could keep a £2.4m gift from a company owned by a convicted fraudster. An investigation by the Electoral Commission...

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A short guide to protectionism

1 Smoot-Hawley The most famous act of protectionism took place in the 1930s when the US government, facing the early forces of depression, legislated to impose tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods – some significantly. The act...

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The queen of crime

When Maj Sjöwall and her partner Per Wahlöö started writing the Martin Beck detective series in Sweden in the 60s, they little realised that it would change the way we think about policemen for ever I t might count as one of...

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Letters: We certainly do want fewer people in jail

Nick Cohen suggests that Nacro, the crime reduction charity, no longer criticises government policy because it "has become dependent on the state" (" How the government buys the silence of charities ", Comment). He argues that...

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Richie Foran on mission to deliver silverware

Published Date: 22 November 2009 ALL TALK of the "luck of the Irish" is best suspended in conversation with Richie Foran, especially when he considers the bitter-sweet experiences engendered by cup football. When it comes to...

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Strong leaders needed from top to bottom

Published Date: 22 November 2009 SFA must stop fluffing its lines and find a manager who commands total respect, argues Tom English LAST AUTUMN in his office at Hampden, George Burley was talking about the bruising few months...

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Lady Ashton... well, at least she's not Tony

As Baroness Ashton of Upholland, the European Union's new High Representative for Foreign Affairs, this weekend surveys her grand suite of offices, with a special corner for her life-sized Dalek, she might still be wondering...

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I'm a showbiz legend in my own lunchtime... and lunch has to be at celebrity restaurant The Ivy

It was over lunch at The Ivy in 1993 that I persuaded the legendary Beatles producer Sir George Martin to work on a Larry Adler album I was trying to get off the ground. Klass act: Myleene and Jonathan Shalit at a party in July...

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