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On Monday we went to the National Theatre to see Alan Bennett's new play, The Habit of Art, about a fictional meeting between WH Auden and Benjamin Britten. It was the performance before press night, so there had been no no (Read More)
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Frances Leviston is charmed by a vision of northern England in a debut collection"O collapser of delicate moods and arch lyrical poignancies! / damper of youthful enthusiasms! / user of out-of-date prophylactic sheaths!" The (Read More)
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Gold was a lousy investment in the 90s … how times change. The humble savings account, meanwhile, more than held its ownGoldIt has been one of the best investments of the past decade, and this week it was hitting new highs. B (Read More)
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On a walkabout in east London, Nick Griffin is a magnet for feelings of grief as well as angerOn Thursday Nick Griffin paid his first official visit to Barking and Dagenham as the newly declared British National party candida (Read More)
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Ian Sansom reads between the lines of three collections of correspondencePity poor Gordon Brown and his letter of condolence. Because what can one possibly say? And how can one say it? It's not as easy as it looks. Take Georg (Read More)
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Tony Blair warned Gordon Brown a week ago that his campaign to become the first president of the European Council was doomed after a decisive intervention by the German chancellor Angela Merkel, according to senior Whitehall (Read More)
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The appointments of Herman Van Rompuy and Cathy Ashton lay bare the rot at the core of the Lisbon projectIt's not often that the front pages of the Daily Mail and the Guardian have identical headlines. Still, both newspapers (Read More)
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Four bridges collapse, main roads are blocked and hundreds are evacuated as 12 inches of rain falls in Cumbria in 24 hoursA policeman swept away and killed during the devastating flooding that hit north-west England was tryi (Read More)
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David Miliband says UK needs more time to shore up Afghan government The Afghan government could fall within weeks if Nato pulled out troops now, David Miliband warned today as he urged British opponents of the war to give th (Read More)
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Neither side stands out as probable winners of this contest if recent form is anything to go by. Bolton have won one of their six home matches while Blackburn have lost all five away from Ewood Park. Both encounters between t (Read More)
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With so much attention on Hull's manager Phil Brown going into their injury-time win over Stoke last time out, the return of Jimmy Bullard went relatively unremarked, but the Londoner's galvanic midfield efforts brought the s (Read More)
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Shadow foreign secretary says French newspapers reported peer got foreign minister post in return for assurance that French MEP would become commission vice-presidentWilliam Hague today suggested the appointment of the Britis (Read More)
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The televising of the Commons, begun 20 years ago, was inevitable – but it has diminished the chamberIs it really 20 years since they fitted new, brighter lights above the chamber of the Commons, drove out those atmospheric, (Read More)
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Pay no attention to the Eurosceptics. Cathy Ashton's posting as EU 'foreign secretary' is a major post-Lisbon developmentThe chorus of ill-informed and patronising calls of "Who?" that have greeted the appointments of the Bel (Read More)
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John Kennedy's retirement was another blow for a Scotland team short on talent and coherencePerhaps it was inevitable, but the confirmation a week ago that Celtic's John Kennedy had been forced to retire from professional foo (Read More)
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• Wenger: 'We cannot accept that. France is embarrassed'• 'My thoughts were for Trapattoni' says sympathetic FergusonArsène Wenger claimed "France is embarrassed" over their progress to the World Cup, as the Premier League's (Read More)
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The UK's constitutional jigsaw still needs to be completed, and politics looks set to become increasingly territorialIt has probably escaped the attention of all but the most assiduous Guardian reader, but this week marked an (Read More)
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Both main approaches to church unity have failed. Perhaps what we need is a flow chartAmong the stranger Anglican blogs out there is The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley, which has published a flow chart that will be helpful t (Read More)
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Discuss all the week's upcoming games and post your own predictions below the lineWelcome back to the NFL talkboard. For those of you who have stumbled upon it for the first time, this is the dedicated space on the sportblog (Read More)
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Health visitors under Conservatives would be encouraged to tell mothers and fathers about websites offering advice on parentingDavid Cameron said yesterday that a Conservative government would promote Mumsnet and other "good (Read More)