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What\'s the significant link between a thinktank and a petrol tank? Ask John Prescott • Copenhagen is coming, and as we continue to debate what is and isn\'t true about...
Labour opens new front in battle with the City
Gordon Brown threatens transactions levy on top of Alistair Darling\'s pre-budget report super-tax on bonuses Gordon Brown is planning to escalate Labour\'s growing war with the City by threatening two more levies on banks in additi...
Doctors doubt effectiveness of Tamiflu
Review published in British Medical Journal accuses flu drug manufacturer Roche of withholding evidence from trials Roche, the manufacturer of Tamiflu, has made it impossible...
The last resort
Deborah Orr spends a day with the mental health workers who routinely face the most challenging of decisions: when should a patient be sectioned? Ten of us are hanging about on an inner-city street corner, waiting for Natasha Sloman to get off the phone. The bed...
More young adults fail to flee the nest
Thirtysomethings unable to get toehold on property ladder choose to stay in family home, says ONS The meals are hot, the fridge is always full and the rent is free. So is it any surprise that more twenty- and thirtysometh...
Letters: Levelling the bankers' bonuses
Peter Preston ( The rewards of banking , 7 December) has a point: bankers are human too. Most of them want exactly the same as us: a decent quality of life. But bankers are not islands: they have to deal with (or are inconvenien...