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Mar 13, 2013
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LIFE & ARTS
Mar 8, 2013
Hovering parents, unite!
Claire Perry MP says we devote too much time to parenting. But isn’t that better than not enough?
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LIFE & ARTS
Mar 1, 2013
Welcome home! You’re downgraded
On return from holiday the house was intact but the country was in a shambles
Mar 1, 2013
Beware of misreading Eastleigh result
The by-election is a political, not electoral, problem for David Cameron
Feb 27, 2013
By Gove, now that’s what I call history
The fact that the English are champion invaders appears to drive their new history curriculum
- Richard Evans Little England folly
- Gove admits to ‘flaws’ in exam plans
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LIFE & ARTS
Feb 15, 2013
Horses for (main) courses
There’s nothing like a good food scare to send angsty parents scurrying back to the natural food counter
Feb 13, 2013
Barclays and the new moral bankers
As the bank seeks to repair its image, Robert Shrimsley imagines the speech its chief, Antony Jenkins, didn’t give
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LIFE & ARTS
Feb 8, 2013
Are we being served?
Even great shops won’t withstand real technological disruption as people will trade convenience for experience
Feb 6, 2013
Of crisps, crusades and Christianity
The new militancy of Christians might prove to be a double-edged sword
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LIFE & ARTS
Feb 1, 2013
The qualms of Nick
If you have the cash and a dearth of good state school options, you have a moral obligation to educate your children privately
Jan 30, 2013
Cameron’s special leave to Romania
A little reverse psychology might dissuade immigrants from embarking
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LIFE & ARTS
Jan 25, 2013
A frosty week, particularly for parents …
The spawn logged on to their school websites only to face the mortifying news that lessons would continue as normal
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LIFE & ARTS
Jan 18, 2013
Be careful what you pray for…
There are many reasons people become football fans. Yet to witness the desperate devotion around us is to feel we are in the midst of a religious cult
Jan 16, 2013
PM prepares to talk tough but say little
The UK prime minister is putting the finishing touches to that speech
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LIFE & ARTS
Jan 11, 2013
Undeserving affluent, unite!
If I disguise myself as triplets and rent out two more addresses, I can keep the whole £33.70… Robert Shrimsley considers the loss of his child benefit
Jan 9, 2013
Comeback time for the Thin Grey Duke
Could John Major, inspired by David Bowie, be next to break his silence?
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LIFE & ARTS
Jan 4, 2013
Happy New Year, onesie and all…
It was a good break and a welcome week of atrophy, but it’s now time to go back to the real world and into work attire...
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LIFE & ARTS
Dec 21, 2012
Why it’s curtains for Gilbert and Sullivan
Civility, understatement and gentle mockery of authority now seem hopelessly old-fashioned in a way they didn’t only a few decades ago
Dec 19, 2012
Turing case cracks the apology code
Instead of feel-good gestures, we should learn lessons from the scientist’s treatment
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