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iBet: Bolton are in worse shape than Chelsea
Bolton v Chelsea, Premier League, Sky Sports 1, kick of 8pm
Lay Bolton at 4.8 to one with Betfair
Much has been written about Chelsea’s crisis of confidence – but Bolton are in even worse shape. Only West Brom are below Bolton in the six-match form table – a period when they have only won one league [...]
By Gareth Purnell | Sport | Monday, 24 January 2011 at 12:35 pm
They say we have freedom, but what about the scars?
There is a reason we must remember people like Patrice Lumumba. Malcolm X described him as “the greatest man who ever walked the African continent”. He fought for freedom, independence and justice, and was a passionate and formidable opponent of colonialism and racism. So, why was he killed?
By Jody McIntyre | Notebook | Monday, 24 January 2011 at 11:36 am
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By Alice-Azania Jarvis | Digital Digest | Monday, 24 January 2011 at 11:29 am
Busting Balls
In his Daily Mirror article today Balls shows why he was such a great choice for shadow chancellor for Labour – a typically, ahem, “Ballsy” performance. Not sure, though, whether he’s proved conclusively that he’d be such a great choice to be the real thing.
By Sean O'Grady | Econoblog | Monday, 24 January 2011 at 11:16 am
Games review roundup: LittleBigPlanet 2; Mass Effect 2; Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective; Ilomilo
A weekly roundup of our bite-size games reviews, this week featuring a world of imagination in LittleBigPlanet 2; universe ending action from Mass Effect 2; supernatural sleuthing in Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective and a walk in the park with Ilomilo.
By Michael Plant | Games, Notebook | Monday, 24 January 2011 at 10:01 am
First Listen: Esben and the Witch, ‘Violet Cries’
Stream UK trio Esben and the Witch’s debut album ‘Violet Cries’.
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Monday, 24 January 2011 at 6:00 am
When Francesca met Svetlana, and broke a record at the Australian Open
The fourth round match-up between Francesca Schiavone and Svetlana Kuznetsova on Sunday afternoon at the Australian Open was not on many people’s lists as a must-watch-event.
By Alexandra Willis | Sport | Monday, 24 January 2011 at 1:00 am
“A Python Getting Out of a Box”
Nothing new in Tony Blair’s appearance at the Chilcot inquiry on Friday, but three additions to The Dictionary of Iraq War Quotations. All of them first picked up by Paul Waugh, proving that his journalistic sharpness has not been blunted by his move to Politics Home.
For those of my colleagues in the London-Based Liberal Media [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 23 January 2011 at 10:39 pm
Haggis to save the USA?
Number 491 in the never-ending series of Questions to Which the Answer is No is asked by Rumbold at Pickled Politics.
Thanks to Matthew.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 23 January 2011 at 7:44 pm
Top Secret Satire
High quality satire from the Mail on Sunday today. Simon Walters reports that a former Cabinet Secretary who served under Tony Blair,* “speaking on condition of anonymity”, said it was “unfair” to keep the Blair-Bush memos secret.
I have tried to explain the constitutional principle of confidentiality as it applies to communications between the British prime minister [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 23 January 2011 at 3:55 pm
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