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Last updated: 5th February, 2010 09:00am

His left hand knows exactly what his right is doing

by Maurice O'Brien

HOWEVER down in the mouth you're feeling about the temperature or the economy there is one major consolation.

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Last updated: 4th February, 2010 07:00am

Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, February 4, 2010

by Rob Wilson MP

I RARELY comment on the minor parties at Westminster - and that includes Liberal Democrats, DUP, SNP, Ulster Unionists and assorted independents - because their impact is so limited and their behaviour so erratic.

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Last updated: 28th January, 2010 09:00am

First an earthquake, now a media tsunami

by Maurice O'Brien

GOD knows the poor wretched people of Haiti had more than their fair share of misery before the earthquake struck.

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Last updated: 27th January, 2010 05:00pm

Life as a Loser

by Reading Rocks Steady

LAST Friday I met Tom Bellamy - former guitarist with the much-missed Cooper Temple Clause - as he rehearsed at the newly relaunched Play studios.

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Last updated: 26th January, 2010 08:00am

The beautiful game is getting ugly

by Alan Bunce

THE longer the current football season goes on the darker the cloud over the game seems to get.

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Last updated: 21st January, 2010 08:00am

Politicians today are the stuff of 'Yes, Minister'

by Maurice O'Brien

HAS IT sunk in yet that the duplicity, lies, misrepresentation, hyperbole, waffle and downright tosh are already at flood levels and the election campaign hasn't even officially begun?

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Last updated: 19th January, 2010 04:06pm

Got Leverage?

by Geek Chic

Christmas is over. We're well into January. What this actually means, finally, is some decent telly. But forget the return of 24 and Lost, the most unmissable US show of the next few weeks is Leverage.

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Last updated: 14th January, 2010 10:00am

Martin Salter's Westminster Diary, January 14, 2010

by Martin Salter MP

Members of Parliament celebrated new year in a variety of different ways back at Westminster.

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Last updated: 14th January, 2010 09:00am

When you're on skid row, keep shovelling

by Maurice O'Brien

SOME thoughts, neither romantic nor appreciative, and a few Dos and Don'ts from this past wintry week...

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Last updated: 12th January, 2010 07:00pm

Breathtaking scene

by Reading Rocks Steady

READING is on the rise again - that's the view of promoter, DJ and all round Reading-music-scene-hero Pete Wheeler in his exclusive column for The Guide this week

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