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  • Hugh Muirs diary Cracks blight the assault in the Lords against gay marriage

    o In the titanic battle in the Lords against gay marriage, many have witnessed the apparent union between Lord Dear, the former chief ...

  • Donald Macintyres Sketch David Cameron can be choosy about who he invites to dinner

    Donald Macintyre writes political sketches for The Independent, having been Jerusalem correspondent since 2004, covering Israel and the Occupied Territories, as well as travelling for the paper to Iraq, Turkey, Jordan, Libya and Egypt. As Political Editor and then Chief Political Commentator, he previously covered the John Major and early Tony Blair era. He has written for the Daily Express, ...

  • Our banks are not merely out of control. Theyre beyond control | Joris Luyendijk

    set up after last year's Libor scandal , identifies all the structural problems and nails the fundamental flaw in finance today: "Too many bankers, especially at the most senior levels, have operated in an environment with insufficient personal responsibility." Indeed, as they like to say in the City, running a mega-bank these days is like "Catholicism without a hell", ...

  • Letters Poor students stay near home

    One factor which seems to have been missed in the debate about the fall in applications to Russell Group universities from state school pupils and poor students is the huge increase in pupils choosing to attend a local ...

  • Intervention too much of it abroad not enough of it at home

    "heir to Blair" , he was not being mischievous or opportunistic, but speaking a deep truth. I find it increasingly difficult to tell the two apart.Both are what are known as liberal interventionists, although Tony Blair prefers to be described as a "progressive" and Cameron likes the term "liberal Conservative". It amounts to the same. The distinctive mark of the ...


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Inherit the Wind [DVD]

Inherit the Wind [DVD]

All the names were changed, but the events depicted in Stanley Kramer's Inherit the Wind were based on one of the most spectacular court battles of the first half of the 20th century. The trial is usually referred to as the "Scopes Monkey Trial, "which in a single phrase combines the name of the defendant (Tennessee schoolteacher John T. Scopes), the major bone of contention (whether he ha ... ...

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  • Russell Brand This aint no way to treat a news anchor

    Appearing on the US talk-news programme Morning Joe on Tuesday, Brand offered his hosts an object lesson in the process - criticising his hosts' questions, their manners, their dress, their superficiality and their competence. ("Is this what you all do for a living?", he demanded at one point). The clip of the interview has had 3m views on YouTube.The hosts deserved all the ...

  • MPs are right - banks need tougher regulation

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  • Mr Obamas farewell to arms in Berlin

    When John F Kennedy spoke in Berlin half a century ago and uttered the words "Ich bin ein Berliner", he unwittingly set the standard for every US president who came after ...

  • A state’s duty to protect its soldiers

    The Ministry of Defence had maintained that the battlefield was beyond the reach of legislation, but now families of soldiers killed in Iraq have the right to ...

  • From charmer to bully My encounter with Charles Saatchi

    an opinion about Charles Saatchi , as an adman, an art mogul, an "explosive" husband, a "complex" man. Well I met him once. It was a memorable experience. I've never known a man to change character so dramatically, nor turn from charmer to bully in such short ...

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