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Dish of the Day: Lily Vanilli's recipe for making a human brain cake
A slight deviation from style this week and admi...
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Owen Howells: From the UK to Australia and back again (and again!)
Owen Howells is a DJ/producer who grew up in Aus...
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Justice for sale but who pays for the cost?
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IMF Annual Meeting: don’t expect salvation
So far at the IMF, so true to form. All agree that the world will get poorer if everyone tries to devalue their currencies at once (actually a logical impossibility) and if all try to deflate at the same time. All agree on the need for coordination and all agree on the need for leadership.
Yet [...]
By Sean O'Grady | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Friday, 8 October 2010 at 6:35 pm
Miliband fails first test by miscasting Alan Johnson
Not the least skill required of a political leader is judgement, and especially judgement in the people around him. On that basis, Ed Miliband has flunked his first serious test in appointing Alan Johnson as shadow chancellor. I would even go so far as to say that Labour would be far better served by Mr [...]
By Sean O'Grady | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Friday, 8 October 2010 at 6:30 pm
Why I’m scared of James Blunt
Without meaning to I think I just entered into a terrifying and legally binding contract with James Blunt.
Earlier this afternoon an envelope arrived on my desk containing the posh troubadour’s latest album ‘Some Kind of Trouble’. Not the best freebie in the world I know but the odd James Blunt album is kind of an [...]
Liverpool must win the court battle
Liverpool must win the High Court case next week in order to accept the £300m bid from Boston Red Sox owner John W Henry and his consortium. And in doing so they will finally be rid of the current owners, fellow Americans Tom Hicks and George Gillett.
Henry has proved what he can [...]
By Gary Newbon | Sport | Friday, 8 October 2010 at 3:16 pm
Cycle Show (porn, basically)
No time this year to get to the Cycle Show in London nor even to write very much except to recommend it to anyone who likes perving on hot bikes.
So yeah, go there. It’s at Earls Court in West London and is open today till Sunday. They’ve got test areas, gear and loads of bikes [...]
By Simon Usborne | Notebook | Friday, 8 October 2010 at 2:28 pm
Premier League melting pot: Internationals from 60 nations (and 60 England internationals) have played in 2010-11 season so far
The Premier League remains global football’s major melting pot, and research by sportingintelligence into the make-up of this season’s teams so far only emphasises the point.
Among the players involved in games so far in the 2010-11 season, there have been full internationals representing 60 different countries from across Europe, Africa, North America, South [...]
By Brian Sears | Sport | Friday, 8 October 2010 at 1:03 pm
Q&A on Financial Fair Play and the mountain Manchester City have to climb
Uefa’s Financial Fair Play regulations won’t wipe out the tradition of benefactor involvement in football. They will merely lead to bans from European competition for clubs whose owners want to spend lots of their own money building up those clubs. Those who want to spend freely can do so, but be [...]
By Nick Harris | Sport | Friday, 8 October 2010 at 12:53 pm
Fox set to win aircraft carrier skirmish?
There was a crunch meeting about defence spending yesterday and lots of differing reports about what went on. This is how I understand it – after his tough talking and that leaked letter, Liam Fox looks likely to be able to declare a victory, of sorts…
David Cameron is poised to approve the £5.2bn construction of two new [...]
By Michael Savage | Eagle Eye | Friday, 8 October 2010 at 11:26 am
Games In Brief: Supercalifragilistic singing tips from Disney
There is no shortage of karaoke titles on the market for vocal show-offs with a video games console. But while existing titles encourage wannabe singers to compete against all-comers, none of them offer much help to those who are a bit too shy to get on stage. Until now…
By Michael Plant | Games, Notebook | Friday, 8 October 2010 at 11:04 am
Games review roundup: Pro Evolution Soccer 2011; Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light; Enslaved: Odyssey to the West; Face Training
A weekly review roundup of the newest games available, this week featuring the silky skills of Pro Evolution Soccer 2011; the ‘Children of Hope’ in Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light; a digital Andy Serkis monkeying around in Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and facial exercises courtesy of Nintendo’s Face Training.
By Michael Plant | Games, Notebook | Friday, 8 October 2010 at 10:12 am
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