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Was Shakespeare a Jewish woman?

Number 788 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No is asked by the Jewish Book Council, itself reporting Matthue Roth’s article at My Jewish Learning, which is headlined merely, “Was Shakespeare a Woman?” (The answer is still no.)
Thanks to Anthony Cox.
Number 789 was asked by Nile Gardiner:
Is Hillary Clinton becoming an [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Tuesday, 17 April 2012 at 9:43 pm

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Who wants to tax and spend? The IMF, that’s who..

Since Christine Lagarde took over the IMF at the turn of the year, they’ve made it more and more obvious that they thought a number of countries including the US, Germany and (by implication) the UK, were tightening fiscal policy too fast.

By Jonathan Portes | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators -, Econoblog | Tuesday, 17 April 2012 at 4:22 pm

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The Banned List: scientifically proven to make life better

The time has come to add another 10 items to the Banned List. I told Padraig Reidy that the Committee would not accept “drink the Kool-Aid” because, although it is a cliché in America it is simply baffling to most people over here, who have forgotten the story of Jim Jones in Guyana, and is [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Tuesday, 17 April 2012 at 11:17 am

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Captain of the Bounty

Nazir Ahmed, a Rotherham councillor elevated to the peerage by Tony Blair, has been suspended from the Labour Party while it investigates allegations that he offered a $10m bounty for the capture on war crimes charges of Barack Obama, George Bush or Blair — select any two at random, according to different reports of what he [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Monday, 16 April 2012 at 10:00 pm

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John Prescott says Twitter holds Press to account

John Prescott, writing in the May edition of Reader’s Digest (there is an extract here, but you need to subscribe for the whole article), has an interesting argument that the Leveson inquiry ought to hear:
Power in the media has shifted dramatically in recent years. Internet tools such as Twitter and Facebook have created a speedy check and balance on our newspapers — a [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Monday, 16 April 2012 at 5:17 pm

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Ann Widdecombe on hating the coalition, doing Big Brother and her rude autobiography

“If they had offered me the Lords, which they did not, I would have taken it.”

By Matt Chorley | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators -, iPolitics | Sunday, 15 April 2012 at 11:47 am

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Nick Clegg: Uncut. The bits that wouldn’t fit

Despite everything, he seems in good spirits, allowing himself to dare to believe the Lib Dems might be turning a corner, and at the very least voters might be willing to listen to them again.

By Matt Chorley | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators -, iPolitics | Sunday, 15 April 2012 at 8:00 am

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Machine politics? The machine has broken down

Phil Collins wrote an interesting column in The Times yesterday (pay wall) about the persistence of machine politics in the Labour Party. He took in the failure to organise the Bradford West by-election, the allegations of attempts to fix the Birmingham mayoral selection and this:
The ultimate objective is the pathetically trivial one of gathering sycophants [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Saturday, 14 April 2012 at 5:31 pm

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Was Winston Churchill to blame for Titanic?

Lovely. Number 785 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No was asked by The Sun nearly three weeks ago. Thanks to Stuart for spotting it.
Meanwhile, catching up. Number 786 was asked yesterday by Charles Garcia on CNN:
Is Castro Cuban-Americans’ Hitler?
Thanks to James Whetlor.
Number 787 has been turned out by the automatic [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Saturday, 14 April 2012 at 11:23 am

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The European Central Bank shows its true colours

What stunning self-righteousness. And what hypocrisy too. Where is the punishment for the creditors of those Irish banks – many of them German financial institutions? If Joerg Asmussen is so keen that sinners pay for their mistakes, why is he apparently content for those profligate lenders to get off free of charge?

By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators -, Econoblog | Friday, 13 April 2012 at 8:33 pm

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