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London’s commuters hit by Tube strikes

admin | September 7, 2010

Travel disruption in London is expected to continue until Wednesday morning after a 24-hour strike by workers on the Tube.

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Tube workers walk out in jobs strike

admin | September 6, 2010

London Underground workers started a fresh wave of strikes, threatening travel chaos for days and costing the economy almost £50 million.

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Ed Balls: a new slump looms

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It’s no use my telling them, of course, but the People’s Party is on the verge of making a historic mistake. They are about to elect one of the two Miliband brothers as their leader, when neither of these perfectly amiable north London intellectuals has ever said anything memorable about anything. (What is the definition [...]

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Millions prepare for Tube strike chaos

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Millions of passengers are preparing for travel chaos because of a strike by London Underground workers in a bitter dispute over jobs.

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Buses, bikes and boats to help during tube strike

admin | September 3, 2010

Details of a “major effort” to help people get to work during a strike by London Underground workers have been unveiled.

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Q: Should Boris return to Parliament?

admin | September 1, 2010

A: ……?

We would like to canvass your views.

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Lessons in Africa

admin | August 30, 2010

Boris returns from Tanzania to conclude that the lady who threw the cat in a wheelie bin should experience a safari camp with a pride of lions                                                                                                               

Like all leading moralists of the age, I have spent the past few days brooding incessantly on the lady who threw the cat into the wheelie‑bin.

Unlike my rivals, [...]

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Nelson Mandela and the holy quest

admin | August 9, 2010

Poor old Dawkins. Poor old Hitchens. You know who I mean: the writers who make a mint with those blockbusters proclaiming that God is dead. They yearn for a human race composed entirely of scientific rationalists, and look at what they get.

You can mock the tenets of Christianity, you can drive people out of churches, [...]

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Why does Atatürk Havalimani* have all the money?

admin | August 2, 2010

* havalimani :  airport

Istanbul’s gleaming and expanding airport is a symbol of a nation going places …

… Heathrow is not,argues Boris Johnson.—

The other night we were filling in time at Istanbul airport, and I was watching an official dart around on one of those new Segway gizmos.  Have you seen one?  They are extraordinary.  It was as though [...]

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Mayor launches cycle scheme

admin | July 29, 2010

A cycle hire scheme, that more than 9,000 people have already signed up for, will be officially launched later.

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