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Dish of the Day: The Reluctant Vegetarian's recipe for Triple the Greens Risotto
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"I'm not going to do ANYTHING for you"
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Nadine Dorries's new business: an engineering consultancy that has become a media consultancy
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Vote for a Stepping Stone
Sunder Katwala makes a good point about the launch of the first Yes campaign for the referendum on the Alternative Vote (right):
Curious that a six-strong steering group does not seem to contain even one person who is actually in favour of the Alternative Vote as their preferred electoral system.
All its members are supporters of proportional [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 11 September 2010 at 3:28 pm
Three Sorry Stories
I know this is old; I meant to note it at the time and then lost it. Kenneth Morgan’s historical take on Conservative-Liberal coalitions, in a letter in August’s Prospect, is a gem:
25th June 2010
Dick Leonard’s summary of past Lib-Con coalitions (July) deals admirably with those of 1895 and 1931. Both ended up with Liberals [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 10 September 2010 at 6:27 pm
Must watch (if you dare): Kings of Leon new single Radioactive
The Kings of Leon are back with a new song, and next month a new album entitled Come Around Sundown. With any luck this will finally eradicate the image of X Factor contestant Jamie Archer singing Sex on Fire to a Simon Cowell physically oozing with smarm.
The tune appears to be carrying on the commercially [...]
By Simon Rice | Notebook | Friday, 10 September 2010 at 2:18 pm
Cowgirls, fashion week and ‘Kissing Cousins’
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By Alice-Azania Jarvis | Digital Digest, Notebook | Friday, 10 September 2010 at 2:07 pm
Wayne Rooney must rally on Saturday
A verbal rollicking awaits Wayne Rooney on Saturday. As he stands facing the light at the end of the tunnel, waiting to wander out onto the field to face Everton, Goodison Park will morph into a cauldron filled with caustic ribald remarks, reminding him of the self-inflicted tawdry tabloid story that will have shattered his [...]
By Giles Lucas | Sport | Friday, 10 September 2010 at 1:11 pm
Kings of Leon’s new album: top of the pops or genuine rock?
Right, OK, so they sold out a little (a lot!) in a very successful attempt at commercial recognition, but is the Kings of Leon’s up-coming album destined to be another gravy train release crammed with high production values and mindless faux Americana “Sex on Fire” song writing? Let’s hope not.
While the newer, perhaps more chart-guided [...]
By Gareth Vipers | Arts | Friday, 10 September 2010 at 12:17 pm
Must watch: The best campaign speech of the year
If you haven’t yet seen this video, you must stop what you’re doing and watch it right now.
By Larry Ryan | The Foreign Desk | Friday, 10 September 2010 at 11:35 am
The Paranoid Style
The Times carries a leading article today (pay wall), with the headline above, that is worth quoting in full — for the purposes of criticism, review and reporting current events.
Tony Blair’s memoirs have broken sales records, with 92,000 copies sold in the four days after publication. Yet Mr Blair cancelled a book signing and the launch party this [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 10 September 2010 at 10:18 am
Tony Blair: Britain’s Sarah Palin?
Number 384 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No is asked by Julie Weiner at Vanity Fair. “To be fair”, a phrase horribly over-used by Tony Blair in his book, she is comparing the response to A Journey to that to Going Rogue. But the answer is still No.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 10 September 2010 at 9:54 am
Games review roundup: Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions; Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep; Tetris Party Deluxe; Ninety Nine Nights 2
A weekly review roundup of the newest games available, this week featuring: a personality crisis for everyone’s favourite wall-crawler in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions; a Japanese take on Disney in Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep; falling blocks by the dozen courtesy of Tetris Party Deluxe and button-mashing sword slashing from Konami’s Ninety Nine Nights 2.
By Michael Plant | Games, Notebook | Friday, 10 September 2010 at 9:30 am
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