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‘I can’t go into specifics about what we’re doing wrong.’

It’s time we bank customers started talking to each other in the queue by Matthew Parris

‘I went into the war as a student and came out as an artist’ by Harry Mount

A woman of substance by Mary Wakefield

The Tory lesson

6 March 2010

There is something distinctly Orwellian about Ed Balls’s latest wheeze. As of this week, parents requesting that their child be sent to a particular school are being informed by text…

Michael Foot, R.I.P.

6 March 2010

Portrait of the week

6 March 2010

Why does it take a crisis to sting Cameron into action?

6 March 2010
James Forsyth

Britain must be saved from the financial abyss

6 March 2010
Allister Heath

Let’s set schools free

6 March 2010
Michael Gove

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Why does it take a crisis to sting Cameron into action?

6 March 2010
James Forsyth

The bar of the Brighton Metropole hotel was packed on Saturday night, with the sort of people locals would want to avoid. It was the Tory spring conference, and the…

Brown is not the problem — it’s his thuggish henchmen who need to be reined in

27 February 2010
Martin Bright

To win the election, the Tories must learn to fight dirty

20 February 2010
James Forsyth

The war over Joanne Cash — and what it tells us about Cameron’s Conservatives

13 February 2010
James Forsyth

The Tories cannot continue to fight the election on the vague promise of ‘change’

6 February 2010
James Forsyth

Cameron and Osborne must listen to their backbenchers — or face revolt

30 January 2010
James Forsyth

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Chess

6 March 2010

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Build-a-Bear Workshops are like crack dens for five-year-olds

13 March 2010
Toby Young

My son Ludo will be celebrating his fifth birthday this weekend with a party at the Build-a-Bear workshop in Westfield. Those of you who don’t have a small child will…

The Wiki Man

13 March 2010
Rory Sutherland

Ayn Rand’s books are deliciously anti-statist, but her philosophy is borderline Nazi

6 March 2010
James Delingpole

What Cameron needs to do is appeal to the people who like the same music as him

6 March 2010
Hugo Rifkind

Parents are offered their first choice among second-rate schools

6 March 2010
Toby Young

High Standards

6 March 2010
Roger Alton

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Our man in the car park contemplates the grotesqueries of ‘the beautiful game’

13 March 2010
Martin Vander Weyer

A dark hour imprisoned in a gridlocked multi-storey car park close to Old Trafford on a home-match evening gave me an opportunity to ponder what was once called ‘the beautiful…

Is now the time to buy back into China?

13 March 2010
Jonathan Davis

Cult collectibles from Barbie to Gaga

13 March 2010
Jasmine Birtles

Poor prospects in the sell-us-your-gold rush

13 March 2010
Dominic Midgley

Blue-chip opportunities despite euro turmoil

13 March 2010
Ian Cowie

Trust in a market where it pays to deceive?

6 March 2010
Martin Vander Weyer

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