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Letters: Politics and science

In responding to Johann Hari's important and perceptive article, Peter Mandelson ("Company money for universities", Letters, 18 November) avoids the key issues raised by Hari in favour of trotting out the usual platitudes....

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Philip Hensher: Gaffes that can be a boon to Cameron

Peter Hobbins is a member of the Conservative association in Orpington, Kent, and a local councillor. In the past, he was a Conservative Party candidate, failing to win the Rhondda seat in the 2001 General Election. He was...

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Caroline Spelman: You Ask The Questions

The MP for Meriden and shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary answers your questions, such as 'Aren't you just a one-man band?' and 'Would you do deals with the Lib Dems?' Abigail Burton, Sutton, Surrey The full...

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Pierre Harmel: Former Belgian foreign minister

Pierre Harmel, who died on 15 November aged 98, was a former Belgian foreign minister who authored a 1967 strategy that led the Nato allies to seek detente with the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. His report, entitled Future Tasks of...

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James R. Lilley: CIA operative and US ambassador

James R. Lilley, who died on 19 November aged 81, was a long-standing CIA operative and later the United States ambassador to China during the time of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Lilley, who was born in China to an oilman...

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Call for government to assist recovery

Published Date: 23 November 2009 INDUSTRIAL leaders today urged the government to use next month's Pre-Budget Report to help industry recover from the recession while paving the way for a more "balanced" economy. The...

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Scotsman Archive: Scottish Nationalists 23 November, 1934

Published Date: 23 November 2009 SIR Alexander MacEwen, addressing a meeting in Dunfermline last night under Scottish National Party auspices, asked if Scotland was not fit to be trusted with the powers which were to be given...

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Midwives struggle to find work as Scots posts dry up

Published Date: 23 November 2009 NEW midwives and staff wanting to return to work are struggling to find jobs in Scotland, it was claimed yesterday. A one-year guarantee of a job in the NHS currently operates for newly...

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'Lesbians massaged PM's feet at orgy'

SCANDAL-hit Silvio Berlusconi staged an orgy at which two lesbians massaged his feet, a call girl claims in a sizzling book. Patrizia D'Addario, 42, says she was invited to the Italian PM's bedroom. He changed into white silk...

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Poor health habits of NHS staff damaging patient care, audit finds

David Rose, Health Correspondent Health trusts must do more to help doctors and nurses exercise and give up smoking and heavy drinking, says the Government. NHS organisations will be expected to improve access to intervention...

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