guardian.co.uk Society:
Cash incentives alone won't solve childcare – perhaps Gordon Brown should look at Germany's response to a 'stove premium'While Gordon Brown has had to rethink his plan to abolish tax relief on childcare vouchers, family policy in Germany took a different turn right from the start. It's the better-off who benefit most from t (Read More)
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Film and biographies mark 250th anniversary of passionate 'Ode to Joy' poetHe is the "rebel from Arcadia", the author of the lyrics to the modern European anthem, Ode to Joy, and a passionate champion of free spirits. But for some time Germany seemed to forget all about the man who was arguably the country's most famous Rom (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
With no signs of green shoots, Mervyn King is right to be downbeat - whatever the Queen saidSo: the government has a fiscal plan, confirmed by the Queen, under which it will halve the budget deficit in four years and eliminate it in due course. It will happily be committed by legislation to do so.Of course, it may not be th (Read More)
The Local - Germany's news in English:
A panel of top economists believes Chancellor Angela Merkel's new centre-right government should take back its "gift baskets" of tax relief in light of Germany's huge public debt. (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
-15 Westwood; -13 McGowan; -10 McIlroy, Noren, Harrington; -9 Garcia, Ogilvy; -8 Aiken, Oosthuizen, ScottLee Westwood is now a firm favourite to win the European Tour money list tomorrow after Rory McIlroy endured a poor end to his third round at the Dubai World Championship.McIlroy was joint-leader when he birdied the 15th (Read More)
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Was it Thomas Cromwell's machinations, a frustrated MP's diaries, or a novelist's treatment of his father's suicide? We asked a few people…Peter Carey – novelistKamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury) has huge ambition and an author equal to the task. Travelling from Nagasaki to Guantánamo, this very beautiful novel se (Read More)
The Guardian:
In putting fans and tradition before profit, the Bundesliga upholds values the Premier League has lostRobert Enke had been capped eight times at the time of his death and had not quite cemented his position as Germany's No1 goalkeeper. Watching the sincere and moving tributes from team-mates and taking note of the fact that (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Guido Westerwelle is making his mark as Germany's new foreign minister by blocking a controversial appointment by the lobby of Germans expelled from Eastern Europe after World War II. (Read More)
The Guardian:
Halfway through a 50-year project to raise football's profile in America – and on the day David Beckham plays in the MLS Cup final – the men in charge are delightedThe American investors who are investing abroad should invest here." So said Sepp Blatter last summer when the Fifa president visited the United States and saw t (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
The pastry for apfelstrudel has to be rolled so thin you could read a newspaper through it. Or cheat and use filo - nobody will knowThere is apple in neat, thin slices; golden sultanas the size of pistachios; the warm Christmastide note of ground cinnamon and drift upon drift of snow-white icing sugar. There are crisp lea (Read More)
The Guardian:
Rangers extended their lengthy unbeaten domestic record with a considerable degree of comfort as they secured the victory they required against Kilmarnock to go back to the top of the SPL.Three goals in 28 first-half minutes from Kris Boyd, Kenny Miller and Steven Whittaker snuffed out any hopes their Ayrshire opponents car (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
This is an enjoyable conspiracy thriller in the manner of John Frankenheimer's Seven Days in May, starring the fetching Romola Garai as Anne, politically naive movie star and adopted daughter of a rich Tory MP with a country estate in Norfolk, who, in the long hot summer of 1939, stumbles across an establishment plot involv (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
London Children's Film Festival, LondonIs it wrong that the prospect of a Tim Burton Bedtime Stories Pyjama Party is as appealing to adults as it will be to movie-loving kids? With a sweet-making workshop and screenings of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and Corpse Bride, it's just one of loads of great activities over th (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Are Herman van Rompuy and Cathy Ashton the best of all available choices as the European Union council president and the high representative on foreign policy respectively? Undoubtedly not. Yet they are competent people and they are the choices that the EU has now made. Were Mr van Rompuy and Baroness Ashton chosen in the m (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Unless they end in promises, and a treaty within months, Ed Miliband believes the Copenhagen talks will be a disaster. But can the British energy secretary, in Denmark for a frantic round of pre-summit diplomacy, win the argument?It's breakfast time in the biggest of Copenhagen's Scandic hotels. Over the obligatory croissan (Read More)