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Ten things we’ve learnt from the World Cup so far
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1. It’s the dullest start to a World Cup in living memory: even Italia ‘90 wasn’t this bad. Stale football, with little flair, too many mistakes, and too much fear. Come on guys, this is the WORLD CUP. 2. The standard of refereeing...
Game over?
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So it looks like the game’s up – the Liberals’ wooing of Labour, and the subsequent resignation of Gordon Brown, was to no avail… and may well have been simply a canny negotiating tactic to get more out of the Tories. The elec...
The end of the party
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This time yesterday, Gillian Duffy was an ordinary pensioner from Wigan. By mid-afternoon, the prime minister was in her house, begging for his political future. Her ordinary, white front door was broadcast live on TV across Britain and the world, vi...
Whatever it is, I agree with Nick
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So, that was it. The debate was a novelty, but once the sheen had worn off a little, it was a slightly dull affair. The debate’s being analysed to death, with Nick Clegg grabbing the plaudits in what you would have thought was an Obama-esque di...
Don’t expect fireworks
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You can’t move for Lloyd Bentsen these days (there’s eight words that I never thought I’d write). The former US vice-presidential candidate’s put-down of Senator Dan Quayle in the 1988 VP debate has been played and re-played o...
Don’t mention the war. Please.
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What is it with UKIP and Belgium? After the Farage-van Rompuy kerfuffle, we now have William Dartmouth having a pop (scroll to 1:45): Quite what the Second World War has to do with easing red tape for micro-enterprises, well… your guess is as...
6Music is just the tip of the iceberg – it’s public service broadcasting that needs our support
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The BBC is a far-from-perfect organisation: it has over-stretched a little in recent years, its quality (particularly in its news broadcasts) has been diluted by trying to fill a 24-hour news channel; it has become too interested in the sensational,...
Much ado about nothing?
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So it seems that ‘Bullygate’ is not having much impact, based on the latest polls – ICM (Guardian) has the Tory lead down to seven points (in polling completed on Sunday evening): Meanwhile YouGov’s daily poll (for the Sun...
Let’s not be beastly
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Politics is a blood sport – but I fear that some nasty and base elements, outside the established limits of the game – are entering a British general election campaign in a way rarely seen before. Yesterday, the Observer relaunched with big fanfa...
