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Institute of Directors backs Gordon Brown's tax cut plans

Truly, something very odd is happening to our politics. The Institute of Directors has just come out in favour of Gordon Brown's plans for unfunded tax cuts.The IoD used to be one of the most Thatcherite business organisations....

Political briefing: Tough times for Two Musketeers

Gordon Brown has used the economic meltdown to take some of his past spending excesses and bury them under the wider crisis. Yesterday David Cameron used the crisis to bury an irksome commitment of his own, to match Labour's...

No escape from friendly fire for Fabio Capello

Graphic: the history boys do battle in Berlin If he were the demonstrative kind, Fabio Capello would have been unsure whether to laugh or cry. Half an hour before the injury that claimed Theo Walcott last night, the England...

Referee rebukes Broad for 'wide ball' protest

Stuart Broad had his first brush with officialdom at the conclusion of England's 54-run defeat to India on Monday and, judging by the aggressive and slightly confrontational way in which the fast bowler plays cricket, it is...

One rule for Lloyds, one for everyone else, signals Darling

Published Date: 19 November 2008 By ROSS LYDALL AND BILL JAMIESON ALISTAIR Darling yesterday effectively slammed the door on a rival bid to keep HBOS an independent bank, when he set tough conditions on any alternative rescue...

Britain re-establishes high-level intelligence links with Syria

Richard Beeston, Catherine Philp and Oliver August Britain re-established high-level intelligence links with the Syrian authorities as David Miliband made his landmark visit to Damascus yesterday, according to senior Syrian...

David Prosser: Deflation is scary. So too is a policymaker in a blind panic

Outlook Here's a thought about the terrifying spectre of deflation now looming large if the much bigger than expected fall in inflation seen last month is a taste of things to come. It may not be so terrifying.

ECB's Trichet says UK must respect EU budget rules

LONDON (Reuters) - The government must respect European Union budget rules when considering a fiscal stimulus plan for the economy, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said on Tuesday. Answering questions at an...

James Crabtree: President-elect Obama is modeling his presidency after Abraham Lincoln

This morning's papers are full of the Clinton saga - the one which will never die - reborn. Beneath it, though, is a more interesting story, of Obama's reading habits, the renewed influence of authors in the Oval Office, and...

Cricket: England accept power of spin and call in Graeme Swann to turn the tide

England will accept the inevitability of India tomorrow and choose a specialist spin bowler for the first time as they seek to recover from 2-0 down in the seven-match one-day international series. And if the selection of...

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