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World Refugee Day: Thousands of displaced Syrians live on a knife edge
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The day the police came for the man who now runs the Care Commission
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Million pound investment to bring Liverpool homes back into use
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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
Anorexia – The Everlasting Illness?
Treatable? Yes. Curable? God only knows. Here lies perhaps the most stark contrast between physical illness and mental illness, especially in terms of how much hope we can place on being better, on being free, on being – the word so many dread or dream of – recovered.
Anorexia, along with the whole shebang of Eating [...]
By Ilona Burton | Notebook | Friday, 10 September 2010 at 1:07 am
The Friday Playlist: Monarchy mix
This week’s playlist is more mix than mixtape and it’s compiled by the mysterious electro-pop duo Monarchy.
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Friday, 10 September 2010 at 12:00 am
Left Foot Forward’s false claim Ed M is members’ darling
Left Foot Forward, the blog that is not supporting Ed Miliband for Labour leader, has an interesting article about “media manipulation” today. Its opening sentence is:
Ed Miliband’s leadership campaign may not have the money that his older brother David’s does, but he is sure that the support of 4,500 volunteers has made up for it.
The [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 9 September 2010 at 10:02 pm
Nick Brown and the whip hand
As the fastest riser at no 7 in the Total Politics media blogs chart (respect to Iain Martin, straight in at no 3), despite my specific instructions to readers not to take part in unrepresentative voodoo internet polls, I had better write something.
I have had my nose in a book for the past week, so [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 9 September 2010 at 6:21 pm
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