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Today’s Thinking

No self-loathing Brighton College leftoids here, please

Columnist MR EUGENIDES
THE EYES of the world were focused this week on east London and the horrifying events in Woolwich; today, they will turn to north London, where tens of thousands of Germans were flying in last night – just like the ...

Article from Saturday 25, May, 2013
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Mad, swivel-eyed loons deserve defending

Columnist MR EUGENIDES
TODAY'S Telegraph splashes with the news that one of David Cameron’s “closest allies” has attacked Conservative Party members as, quote, “mad, swivel-eyed loons”. Over on Twitter – which, for the blissfully uninitiated, is a social network on which everyone hates ...

Article from Saturday 18, May, 2013
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UKIP and SNP: two peas from the same pod?

Columnist MR EUGENIDES
THE RESULTS are in, and the people have spoken – the bastards. UKIP's performance in last week’s council elections, and a strong second place in the unlikely setting of David Miliband's South Shields constituency, has propelled the rag-tag right-wing insurgency to ...

Article from Saturday 11, May, 2013
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Three cheers for the ECHR, through gritted teeth

Columnist MR EUGENIDES
ANOTHER WEEK, another government minister left looking like a clown with a punctured unicycle. Teresa May, who is patently the most overpromoted Home Secretary since the last one, donned her red nose and floppy oversized shoes and trooped down to ...

Article from Saturday 27, April, 2013
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Politicians often have the wrong convictions

Columnist MR EUGENIDES
IN THE WAKE of Mrs Thatcher’s wonderful and moving send-off on Wednesday, it has become fashionable in some circles to describe her as “the last PM with real convictions”, and to contrast her tenacity and firmness of principle with the ...

Article from Saturday 20, April, 2013
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A right old British ding-dong

Columnist MR EUGENIDES
THE Daily Mail paid fulsome tribute to Mrs Thatcher on its front page this week, splashing an elegant photograph of our dearly departed Leaderene with the bombastic headline “The Woman Who Saved Britain”, a slightly odd sentiment coming from a newspaper ...

Article from Saturday 13, April, 2013
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Bugger-off then David Miliband, you won't be missed

Columnist MR EUGENIDES
CRICKET IS NOT really my game; I tend to prefer my sporting contests laced with a little less beflanneled gentility and a little more ancient religious loathing. But there's a famous anecdote from an Ashes series of old – I ...

Article from Saturday 6, April, 2013
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Hands off our newspapers, Jim

Columnist MR EUGENIDES
THE BEAUTIFUL city of Paisley has given us many individuals whose brilliance has illuminated Scottish public life, from the dancing feet of Archie Gemmill to the financial acumen of Fred Goodwin. When it comes to its elected representatives, however, ...

Article from Saturday 23, March, 2013
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Foreign perspective tells us Huhne is no Kim Il-Sung

Columnist MR EUGENIDES
A COUPLE of years ago – and this is true, for once – I found myself in the centre of a giant palace in Pyongyang, standing in front of the mummified body of Kim Il-Sung, the dictator of North Korea until ...

Article from Saturday 16, March, 2013
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Useful Idiots

Columnist MR EUGENIDES
The Guardian has this week been a newspaper in mourning. The death of Hugo Chavez has hit morale hard, with the newspaper all but running a black band around its website in deference to the passing of the man it ...

Article from Saturday 9, March, 2013
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