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Barking Blondes: When to vaccinate
Dr Ron Schultz, professor and chair of pathologi...
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Doctor Who 'The Name of the Doctor' - Series 7, episode 13
What a wonderful way to end this momentous serie...
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UKIP Surges to Record High
The UK Independence Party is on 19 per cent, the...
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Cameron’s possibly winning position
My article in The Independent on Sunday today is part of a continuing series explaining why popular attitudes towards Europe might not be such a problem for David Cameron as might be assumed.
Since May 2010, when the general election coincided with the start of the euro crisis, most opinion polls, including our ComRes today, have [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 19 May 2013 at 2:57 pm
Barking Blondes: When to vaccinate
Dr Ron Schultz, professor and chair of pathological sciences at The University of Wisconsin, joined us on the radio show a few months ago, via Skype.
By Joanne Good and Anna Webb | Notebook | Sunday, 19 May 2013 at 5:00 am
“Clearing the Battlefield”
Matthew d’Ancona says David Cameron’s talk is of “clearing the battlefield”. Which is a nice way of saying, “everything looks like a shambles now, but just imagine what it will be like the week after next when all this bad stuff is out of the way”.
D’Ancona reports what I had heard, which is that No [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 18 May 2013 at 9:54 pm
Doctor Who ‘The Name of the Doctor’ – Series 7, episode 13
What a wonderful way to end this momentous series in the 50th year of Doctor Who. From the start of the episode you know this is going to be a good episode that will make the audience forgive past mistakes such as Dinosaurs on a Spaceship or the so-so Ring of Akhaten.
By Neela Debnath | Arts | Saturday, 18 May 2013 at 8:00 pm
UKIP Surges to Record High
The UK Independence Party is on 19 per cent, the highest share recorded by any pollster, in a ComRes poll for tomorrow’s The Independent on Sunday, shared with the Sunday Mirror.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 18 May 2013 at 7:27 pm
Poll alert
We have a ComRes opinion poll in The Independent on Sunday tomorrow, shared with the Sunday Mirror. The results will cause a bit of a stir.
As well as asking people how they would vote, and who would be the best prime minister, we asked if people agreed or disagreed with the following:
If a referendum were [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 18 May 2013 at 10:27 am
iBet: A tight game between Northampton and Bradford
A tight game could be in prospect here. Northampton have been keeping things very tight of late and it’s seen them through to the play-off final.
By Gareth Purnell | Sport | Saturday, 18 May 2013 at 2:01 am
Was An Alien Space Fish Just Filmed Outside The Space Station?
Falling a bit behind in the series of the book, Questions To Which The Answer Is No.
This is number 947, asked by Huffington Post (alien fish, pictured).
Number 948 was asked by Mary Riddell:
Will Ed Miliband be the Doctor Who of politics?
A bit baffling, that one (unlike all the others). Will he reverse the polarity of the neutron [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 17 May 2013 at 9:37 pm
Economic History Lesson
Nigel Lawson, Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1979-81 (second from left in picture), told Treasury civil servants at a seminar organised by the Mile End Group two weeks ago (but online only today):
There’s a reason why you today can feel confident … Based on the example of what we did in the 1980s, squeezing public [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 17 May 2013 at 2:14 pm
Dish of the Day: Short & Sweet
I know Dan Lepard nabbed it first for his wonderful book on baking but I’m eternally jealous, as it combines a perfect wordplay and one of my favourite things, so I’m going to pretend it’s not stealing and use it just this once.
By Lily Vanilli | Dish of the Day | Friday, 17 May 2013 at 1:00 pm
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