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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
