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Can comedy influence politics? Yes, of course it can!

Just a little update to my post asking why the UK doesn't have a Tina Fey yesterday. She's been doing a brilliant impression of Republican running mate Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live in the US and, as the race for the White...

Congress Charges Commission

Faced with an imminent financial meltdown and a looming depression, one might have expected Congress, inspired with a rush of patriotism, to have stepped vigorously to the plate to pass Paulson's rescue package without delay.

Queen's composer attacks 'dumbing down' of British society

The Queen's composer has launched a stinging attack on the "dumbing down" of British society, singling out the commercialisation of art and Damien Hirst for particular criticism. In a speech to the conference of the British...

PETER OBORNE: Day that Britain changed forever

Yesterday's nationalisation of the banking system was a momentous day in British history. It came at the end of an equally momentous three weeks which have changed the rules by which we live. Now, a time of worrying uncertainty...

Strictly Come Dancing exclusive: John Sergeant on becoming an unlikely sex symbol

With a bulgy tum, thinning hair and the face of a grumpy little troll, John Sergeant has everything it takes NOT to be a sex symbol. She describes him as the viewers’ darling and gushes: “The one adjective on every woman’s lips...

Jonathan Rutherford: A new kind of politics is needed now that neoliberalism has ended

Our economy is plummeting into the unknown. Both the New Labour government and the new Conservatives are products of the neoliberal era that is disintegrating around us. The old glory of New Labour will bring life to a zombie...

Don Shiach: Educationist and writer who became a successful dealer in movie memorabilia

Don Shiach was a writer, educationist and cinephile who latterly developed a successful business as a dealer in movie memorabilia. He had started his career as a teacher and was very committed to egalitarian politics,...

Michael White's political briefing: When did the age of irresponsibility start? Discuss

Series: Michael White's political briefing During yesterday's session of PM's question time the Tory MP Andrew Mackay innocently asked Gordon Brown when exactly he thought the "age of irresponsibility" had begun. Before the...

Philip Stephens: A return to sobriety

Oct 8, 2008

In return for the bail-out of UK banks, the government is demanding – and here the voters will cheer – a radical change in culture. The champagne days are over but at some point the government will face a reckoning

Latin American leftists taunt Bush on bailout

By Tyler Bridges - With the Bush administration's Treasury Department resorting to government bailout after government bailout to keep the U.S. economy afloat, leftist governments and their political allies in Latin America are...