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When businessmen issue new shares, they are prey to smooth-talking bankers (6)
What the chancellor and his new opponent do and don’t have in common (7)
Painful cuts at the World Service (9)
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The real job of the Home Office's fancy new interactive crime map is to make the police more responsive to the public's wishes More »
Britain and America's contrasting approaches to growth are a wonderful natural experiment. But it's as premature to castigate Britain for its recent poor performance as it was to celebrate its earlier good showing More »
Andrew Lansley and his imaginary evidence
Bad Science
Too precious to destroy
Philip Pullman
The tyranny of conventional wisdom
Mehdi Hasan, New Statesman
Is the Bank of England trying to inflate away Britain's debts?
Jeremy Warner, the Telegraph
As the left sulks, the centre right have become the optimists
Julian Glover, the Guardian
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