It was just like old times. Jeremy Paxman was back where he belongs, on the television toying with politicians for sport, making the prime minister and leader of the opposition look like cubs who’d recklessly wandered into the den of an aged lion – one who had not lost his appetite for raw meat.
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Our columnists give their opinions on how David Cameron and Ed Miliband fared in front of Jeremy Paxman and the TV cameras on Thursday night
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Too often those on either side of the debate speak about it merely in transactional terms, arguing over what it does for and to us. Today we try to bring fresh light to the issue
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The result was not the worst of it. Indeed, buried in the detailed numbers of this week’s Israeli election were odd crumbs of consolation. No, what made Binyamin Netanyahu’s emphatic win so dispiriting were the depths he plumbed to secure victory.
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Robert Chote of the Office for Budget Responsibility and Gavin Kelly of the Resolution Foundation join Tom Clark to discuss George Osborne's budget. Plus: Jonathan Freedland and Larry Elliott reflect on a very political chancellor Continue reading...
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Decode the motive behind almost every paragraph and you would have a complete set of Labour attack lines that refuse to go away
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Economics editor Larry Elliott and Executive editor Jonathan Freedland discuss George Osborne's final coalition budget. With the general election just weeks away, it was packed with offers to voters such as a further rise in the tax allowance, money of...
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Students at Harvard Business School probably know little of Millwall Football Club. Nevertheless the corporate titans of the future might do well to learn from the luckless London team, now sunk at the bottom of the English game’s second tier and set to be relegated to its third.
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In all those sci-fi horror stories foretelling the end of the world, the imagined reaction was never boredom. Panic and hysteria, yes. Sex with strangers, most certainly. We could picture all that at the moment doomsday loomed. But inertia, inattention and a shrugging desire to turn over to the other channel – well, HG Wells never foresaw that.
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