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Sign up for no-strings misery
Internet dating used to be such a sweet and innocent thing. Those who made initial tentative forays into that terrifying arena about ten years ago were nervous, they were slightly ashamed, and they’d invariably begin the “About Me” section of their profiles with the phrase “I can’t believe I’m doing this.” Then they’d delete the [...]
By Rhodri Marsden | Notebook | Thursday, 1 July 2010 at 11:27 am
Blair hating update
Bouyed by the success of its green-ink supplement last week, the Daily Mail has gone one further and printed an entire edition thus today (although it shows up in black and white in scans, right).
I refer the honourable reader to the reply I gave some moments ago. (Although I realise that this once-sacred piece of [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 1 July 2010 at 10:48 am
Trouble at the box office for Tom Cruise
Knight & Day has now been in cinemas for exactly two weeks, in which time it has managed to make a total of $44 million at the global box office. Since the film’s production budget was $117 million, and tens of millions more were spent on marketing it, this is not exactly an unqualified success
By Guy Adams | Arts, The Foreign Desk | Thursday, 1 July 2010 at 6:53 am
World Cup – Trouserless Mayor Celebrates English Flop
A bad time to be an England player, a good time to be a trouserless mayor
By Neil Forsyth | Sport | Wednesday, 30 June 2010 at 10:02 pm
World Cup: Wazza and CR7? Give me El Gringo and Piquenbauer
Its doubtful that Wayne Rooney or Cristiano Ronaldo will hold many fond memories of South Africa after both were held accountable for their nations’ early exits.
Both players have been among the most consistent performers of football’s elite for the past the five years and will be for at least the next half a decade. Failing [...]
By Tim Sturtridge | Sport | Wednesday, 30 June 2010 at 8:28 pm
Fiona Banner’s brilliant, brutal art
Just as Tate Britain revealed Fiona Banner’s Duveen Galleries commission this week – to fill the vast neo-classical space at the front of the London gallery – many art critics and correspondents braced themselves for sensationalism. As a true-blue former YBA, Banner caused a ruckus when in 2002 her artwork, ‘Arsewoman in Wonderland’, was [...]
By Arifa Akbar | Arts | Wednesday, 30 June 2010 at 7:10 pm
Getting closer to the truth on torture
The cloud of linguistic and moral confusion that was the “War on Terror” seems finally to have cleared.
The Government’s announcement that it will hold a judge-led inquiry into allegations that the Secret Intelligence Services were complicit in the torture of terrorism suspects is a welcome one.
However, less welcome is the lack of clarity (or should [...]
By Samuel Muston | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 30 June 2010 at 6:25 pm
Irish eyes aren’t smiling yet
We were told to expect a rapid turnaround because of Ireland’s willingness to take the bitter fiscal medicine early
The coalition Budget’s toll on jobs
Assuming that the coalition job losses by 2015 will be 61% greater than under Labour’s plans, that works out as between 417,000 and 493,000 more jobs losses as a result of Mr Osborne’s avoidable austerity.
Was it really necessary to turn an insult involving coconuts into a criminal prosecution?
Though not in the conventional sense, of course, the Telegraph provides my esteemed colleague John Rentoul with further ammunition for his outstanding series, regarding Questions in headlines to which the answer is No.
The funny thing is, though the tone of Elizabeth Grice’s piece suggests she would answer ‘no’ herself, her comrades at the Telegraph clearly [...]
By Amol Rajan | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 30 June 2010 at 1:12 pm
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