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Monday, 1 December 2008
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News
UK
- Council to launch 'Bank of Essex'
- The price is wrong: 2.5 per cent sale starts today
- Duty-free allowances double, thanks to Brown
- Arrested MP accused of 'grooming' mole
- Downturn forces Brown to scale back Queen's Speech
- 'I can't stand him': Clegg overheard attacking team
- £250m: cost of raking over the Troubles
- Noon calls for banon immigration
- Daughter held after couple are beaten to death
World
- Swiss voters give boost to heroin on the NHS rise
- Outcry over arrest of French journalist
- Millionaire's Fair: Oligarchs on their uppers
- 'King of the Arches' is Italy's culture tsar
- Bill takes vow of silence for sake of Hillary's job
- Betancourt back in Bogota
- Israel to free 250 in bid to bolster Abbas
- India lashes out at old enemy
- Andrew Buncombe: The region at the heart of this deadly argument
- Terrorist outlaws – or a group with friends in high places?
- Indians demand to know why warnings were ignored
- Pro-government rally raises the heat in Thai power struggle
- Somali pirates agree on ransom for tanks ship
- Death toll hits 400 in Nigerian clashes
- Now anthrax takes toll on the starving in Zimbabwe
- Music stars issue special (RED) release
Business
- Compass faces $200m racial discrimination suit
- Pressure grows for big cut in interest rates
- Companies have to work for debt as investment banks toughen up
- Bidders line up for next round of Woolies talks
- The Week Ahead: Tesco sales to fall 3 per cent below industry norm
People
- Question Time: Lorraine Candy
- Phil Woolas: You Ask The Questions
- Pandora: Charge much less or be speechless
Media
- Despite 'Manuelgate', Radio 5 Live's controller risks playing it for laughs
- Dave Hogan: The snapper the stars still come out for
- Andrew Keen: Justin TV - Is this a game of life and death?
- Claire Beale on Advertising: With Cheil deal, Trevor Beattie goes global
- Ian Burrell: Why marketers must learn to ride new waves with silver surfers
Education
- You're not going far enough, Swedish expert tells Cameron
- Free school: Conservatives eye the Swedish model
- Pupils pick 'wrong' A-levels
Obituaries
- Luderin Darbone: Fiddle player and bandleader at the forefront of Cajun music
- William Gibson: Playwright best known for his depiction of Helen Keller, 'The Miracle Worker'
Opinion
Leading Articles
- Leading article: India and Pakistan have a common extremist enemy
- Leading article: Competent leadership badly needed
- Leading article: Bonfire of the Bills
Commentators
- Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Spheres of influence are a fact of life
- Paddy Ashdown: Corruption and terrorism will flourish without global governance
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Muslims must confront the truth about Mumbai
- Bruce Anderson: Parliament's rights are under threat – and so are ministers'
- Philip Hensher: Showing Syria our fragile side is our strength
- John Lichfield: The French learn to love Shakespeare
Columnists
- Tales of the suburbs: 'What happened to the future they promised us on Tomorrow's World?'
- Dom Joly: How a bog-standard lilo might turn me into a world champion
Letters
Environment
Green Living
Sport
Cricket
- Players will not be 'forced' back to India, insists Miller
- Century helps Haddin escape Gilchrist's shade
- Mumbai attack throws January tour of Pakistan into doubt
Football
- Watch all the latest action
- Van Persie double stuns Chelsea
- Ronaldo's bizarre red card raises eyebrows
- Cash is king in a world of paupers
- Moyes provides spur for Everton to raise game
- McShane and Windass bring light relief to dreadful day
- Keane on the edge after slide
- Fulham expose gap in Villa's education
- Benitez hammers home league message
- Portsmouth avoid Milan repeat with battling win
- Baggies are 'mugged' by match-saving Kirkland
- Scolari seeks apology from referee over Arsenal goal
- Sam Wallace: Pardew succeeds in parallel universe but reality suggests downward spiral
- 'If he says the ball was going to hit him, why didn't he head it?'
- Keane: improve or end is nigh
- Swans visit scant reward for giant-killing Histon
- Mourinho's Inter grind out another victory
- Wizardry of Messi has Barcelona flying high
- Celtic raise spirits as lead at the top grows
Golf
Racing
- Equestrianism: Townend earns bumper prize by storming to decisive win
- Brave Inca rediscovers old fire
- Fresh falls pile pressure on Calamity Sam
More Sports
- Ben Ainslie: 'I can only win one medal per Games – I've done all I can do'
- Robin Scott-Elliot: Navratilova's 'snugglebug' blows winds of change through jungle
Life & Style
Fashion
- Ready to Wear: Madonna - This is about as extreme as high-end clothing is ever going to get
- Timeless style – updated: Yves Saint Laurent
- The party dress code
Health & Wellbeing
- Heart fears for conjoined twins
- The Ten Best Beauty Gift Sets
- The kindest cut: How circumcision is the secret weapon in the battle against HIV/Aids
- Virginia Ironside: Next week's dilemma
- Life Support: How to talk about the economy
- Virginia Ironside’s Dilemmas: My son says he might be gay and I am not sure how to handle it.
Motoring
Arts & Entertainment
Music
- It's my party and I'll cry off if I want to
- Princesses of pop: The new generation taking over the charts
- MGMT, The Forum, London
- Thomas Quasthoff, Wigmore Hall, London
Films
- Lives in gritty times provide apt theme for independent British film awards
- From Marseilles to Baltimore: The French Connection and TV dramas
TV & Radio
Theatre & Dance
Books
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3 Stephen King: Bernanke's blueprint for dealing with the horrors of debt deflation
4 Robert Fisk: 'Nobody supports the Taliban, but people hate the government'
5 Obama names Clinton as Secretary of State
6 James Purnell: New Labour is not dead and buried – it's in rude health
7 When the literati come to party, it's time to clean up your bookshelves
- Shopping Bag: Aspirations of efficiency
- Julian Hall - Not getting the joke
- The LifeBrowser: What's cooking?
- Cyclotherapy: 'Another cyclist raced up alongside me and started hurling abuse'
- Ankhi Mukherjee: Remembering the Old Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai
- Roger Alton: Newspapers, Swedish detectives and the small print
- Rob Sharp: In Gaza
- Jimmy Leach: Facebook thwarts evil-doers
- Andrew Keen: Pirating the people's game
- Colinb: Buggins must go
- Emma Jones: Top 5 technoloy apps of 2008
- Laura Bruce: Quarantine. Use your time wiser
- John Rentoul: End of commentary on Damian Green
- Jane Merrick: Harman breaks ranks
- John Rentoul: Making sense of the polls
- Peter Bills: Victory can't hide United's financial dangers
- The Independent starts blogging
- Start your own Independent Minds blog
Oops....She's Done It Again
Columnist Comments
• Terence Blacker: The greasy gravy train of lobbyism
The idiocy and graft at work in the system barely merits a second glance.
• Dominic Lawson: When 'life' should mean life.
Sometimes the public feel the perpetrator should not be released.
• Steve Richards: Who is accountable for the police?
Why was Damian Green arrested with such spectacular insensitivity?
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