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Simon Jenkins: Trim the fat and cut the crap. Tough times demand an austerity Olympics
When Keynes proposed saving the economy by getting the unemployed to dig holes and then fill them again, he might have been thinking of the Olympics. Gordon Brown has 500 peo...
When Keynes proposed saving the economy by getting the unemployed to dig holes and then fill them again, he might have been thinking of the Olympics. Gordon Brown has 500 peo...
Hugh Muir's Diary
If recession is our fate, as Gordon Brown and the Bank of England\'s governor Mervyn King now believe, then...
If recession is our fate, as Gordon Brown and the Bank of England\'s governor Mervyn King now believe, then...
Seumas Milne: Not the death of capitalism, but the birth of a new order
As the dust of the credit crash clears and the real world recession kicks in, the ideologues of capitalism are scaring themselves with spectres. "He\'s bac...
As the dust of the credit crash clears and the real world recession kicks in, the ideologues of capitalism are scaring themselves with spectres. "He\'s bac...
Hugh Muir's diary
"Our failure to resource the asylum processes has caused untold human misery," said Phil Woolas, the immigration minister. ...
"Our failure to resource the asylum processes has caused untold human misery," said Phil Woolas, the immigration minister. ...
Simon Jenkins: Denial of the right to die is sheer religious primitivism
The Crown Prosecution Service is considering, yet again, whether to prosecute and possibly imprison otherwise law-abiding Britons for helping their loved ones to die. ...
The Crown Prosecution Service is considering, yet again, whether to prosecute and possibly imprison otherwise law-abiding Britons for helping their loved ones to die. ...
John Harris: We're all going to be keeping down with the Joneses now
Behind London\'s Royal Exchange, someone recently created an art installation titled In Loving Memory of the Boom Economy. A mock-up of the roads...
Behind London\'s Royal Exchange, someone recently created an art installation titled In Loving Memory of the Boom Economy. A mock-up of the roads...
Jonathan Freedland: All sides are behaving as if Obama has it in the bag. And yet, and yet ...
A little shudder went through me every time they said it. "President Obama\'s first priority will be this," they would begin. Or, "The Obama administration will find t...
A little shudder went through me every time they said it. "President Obama\'s first priority will be this," they would begin. Or, "The Obama administration will find t...
Hugh Muir's Diary
There will be a new age of transparency, says Gordon. Shine a light on government. Shine a light on the financ...
There will be a new age of transparency, says Gordon. Shine a light on government. Shine a light on the financ...
George Monbiot: If an hour is a long time in politics, we must start thinking in centuries
The problem is simply stated. As Gordon Brown - discussing what he perceives to be an improvement in his political fortunes - says, "an h...
The problem is simply stated. As Gordon Brown - discussing what he perceives to be an improvement in his political fortunes - says, "an h...
Michael Tomasky: The Republicans have lifted the lid off their rightwing id
A year or two ago, if you\'d told me that Barack Obama would be leading John McCain by a seemingly comfortable margin with two weeks to go and asked me wh...
A year or two ago, if you\'d told me that Barack Obama would be leading John McCain by a seemingly comfortable margin with two weeks to go and asked me wh...
Mark Lawson: Books of the dead funny
There is nothing inherently funny about death. Although there\'s a verbal echo between the words "humorous" and "posthumous", they h...
There is nothing inherently funny about death. Although there\'s a verbal echo between the words "humorous" and "posthumous", they h...
Larry Elliott: Green New Deal calls not just for tougher controls of global financial system but for large-scale investment in renewable energy
Well, it was nice while it lasted. The action by the world\'s central banks to prevent a death spiral in global financial markets prompted a relief rally, but it lasted j...
Well, it was nice while it lasted. The action by the world\'s central banks to prevent a death spiral in global financial markets prompted a relief rally, but it lasted j...
Simon Jenkins: It's a bull market for humility, and shares in kindness are soaring
This week I dropped in on an estate agent to test the state of the market. Everyone in the place stopped dead. Beaming smiles spread across faces. Two sales...
This week I dropped in on an estate agent to test the state of the market. Everyone in the place stopped dead. Beaming smiles spread across faces. Two sales...
Martin Kettle: TV debates rarely swing it, but let voters test the timber
Too much media coverage of the American election for you? It wasn\'t always this way. Sometimes the complaints went in the opposite direction. Doing some homew...
Too much media coverage of the American election for you? It wasn\'t always this way. Sometimes the complaints went in the opposite direction. Doing some homew...
Hugh Muir's diary
We sympathise with Lord West of Spithead, for the task of being Gordon\'s oracle on counter-terrorism is difficult, and it do...
We sympathise with Lord West of Spithead, for the task of being Gordon\'s oracle on counter-terrorism is difficult, and it do...
