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...Another suggestion being made that the government could nick Labour’s idea about windfall tax, extend that as well....
...These qualities feature in the set pieces of the great 20th-century party laureates — F Scott Fitzgerald, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green....
...Readers will not be revealed until the performance itself but past celebrity guests include Ian McKellen, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jarvis Cocker, Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave....
...Ed Balls and Nick Clegg have had the chance to settle political scores with tales of life not quite at the top....
...Jonathan Swift or Evelyn Waugh, perhaps. Imagine an innocent and ignorant bystander being made secretary of state for energy by virtue of a sequence of accidents and misunderstandings....
...The slickly superficial dialogue, of which there is a great deal, is somewhat Waugh-esque, but while the compulsive obliquity of the verbal exchanges in Waugh throbs with unarticulated meaning, Edward and...
...Helen Boaden that there was a Newsnight investigation pending which might cause him to scrap tributes to Jimmy Savile. 11.56: Rippon’s fate will await the review of the affair by former Sky News head Nick...
...Westminster veteran journalist Paul Waugh predicts Scrooge crossed with Thatcher: “Bah, handbag.”...
...It’s not a bad answer, and one which could equally apply to David Cameron (brief spell in television PR) and Nick Clegg (brief spell as Brussels lobbyist)....
...As Paul Waugh points out today, David Miliband has questioned whether anyone really knows who is pulling ahead in the Labour leadership race....
...Hislop has skilfully renewed the magazine with his own contemporaries, including his own schoolfriend, cartoonist Nick Newman....
...UPDATE: Timothy Johnston (see comments below) has helpfully pointed out that, as Paul Waugh says in the Evening Standard, the Chilcot inquiry will not rule on the legality of the war. it will instead rule...
...It is also fresh evidence that the Labour team may not be able to deliver a deal even if Nick Clegg wanted one. I’m still hearing from a handful of Labour people who back coalition....
...He was Mark Gerson, whose best-known subject is Evelyn Waugh – standing between two stone sphinxes, ratting tweed suit slightly crumpled, a mixture of infinite sorrow and mischief in the eyes....
...- Political Betting Agent Ashdown’s dead letter drop – Paul Waugh...
...Nick Clegg unveils Liberal Democrat manifesto before campaigning in Oldham.Ed Balls and Andy Burnham hold Labour press conference while Gordon Brown campaigns in West Yorkshire.David Cameron to attend a...
...William Boot demanded of the Daily Beast’s foreign editor on being invited to report on an African civil war in Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s immortal 1938 comic novel of journalism....
...Ben Brogan in the Telegraph MPs are under stress, say academics – PA Charlie Whelan denies bullying allegations – The Independent Hold the doors for the Dear Leader – Paul Waugh Blog The genius of the National...
...– Alastair Campbell blog Cameron runs away from Paxo – Paul Waugh in The Evening Standard...
...On the leaders’ debate: Cameron warns of “sluggish” debate – The FT Big match build-up – Adam Boulton on Sky Feeling queasy – Nick Robinson’s newslog What if it’s too boring for words – Benedict Brogan in...
...The curious non-resignation of Joanne Cash, PPC for Westminster North: Paul Waugh charts the aftermath. Here is his original story. Do northerners like the Tories? Nick Robinson visits Pendle....
...in 1991 of a McDonald’s training video showing a preternaturally enthusiastic McDonald’s trainer encouraging a goofily bright-eyed trainee to “make your McDonald’s the cleanest in town”, Joe Pickett and Nick...
...Paul Waugh has more details....
...Those who wanted to hear regret, says the BBC’s Nick Robinson, will be disappointed. 5.14pm: Well, there you have it. He’s sorry – for being divisive – but firmly believes the war was right....
...Auberon Waugh, in The Sunday Telegraph eight days after the disaster, wrote – wrongly – of supporters “rioting outside the gate” before kick-off....
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