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Hardy: “The longer he stays conscious the worse it’s going to be for him”

As the UFC makes its way to London, I speak to Britain’s Dan Hardy about his failed attempt at the world title, his never-say-die attitude, and what he has in store for Carlos Condit ahead of their welterweight duel at the 02.

By Adam Williamson | Sport | Saturday, 9 October 2010 at 4:58 pm

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Yet more reasons why the Iraq war was right

A number of comments on my earlier posts on Ed Miliband’s revisionism about Iraq demanded to know my response to various assertions commonly made about the case for military action in 2003.
As I said last time, I am eager to answer questions that I and others have not answered many times before. I haven’t seen [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 9 October 2010 at 4:24 pm

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How the leadership election can be saved

The other item in The Times today (pay wall) is an article by Peter Hyman. Anyone who saw Tony Blair’s former speech writer on Newsnight this week will know that he is even more, er, emphatic than I am about the wrong choice foisted on the Labour Party by the Forces of Whelan. Here is [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 9 October 2010 at 1:09 pm

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How the leadership election was won

Two interesting political items behind the pay wall at The Times today. One is an interview with Charlie Whelan, who has just retired as political director of Unite, having played a central role in giving Neil Kinnock his party back. The photograph by Tom Main alone is worth the subscription (a small version, right).
The article starts [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 9 October 2010 at 12:54 pm

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Has the peer review process lost credibility?

What do the following stories have in common?

Andrew Wakefield’s influential 1998 paper suggesting a connection between autism and the MMR vaccine is fully retracted by the journal that originally published it.

Thousands of leaked emails appear to show climate scientists colluding to suppress the publication of research.

14 eminent stem cell biologists complain that an obstructive clique [...]

By Sandy Starr | Battle of Ideas, Eagle Eye | Saturday, 9 October 2010 at 12:00 am

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IMF Annual Meeting: don’t expect salvation

So far at the IMF, so true to form. All agree that the world will get poorer if everyone tries to devalue their currencies at once (actually a logical impossibility) and if all try to deflate at the same time. All agree on the need for coordination and all agree on the need for leadership.
Yet [...]

By Sean O'Grady | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Friday, 8 October 2010 at 6:35 pm

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Miliband fails first test by miscasting Alan Johnson

Not the least skill required of a political leader is judgement, and especially judgement in the people around him. On that basis, Ed Miliband has flunked his first serious test in appointing Alan Johnson as shadow chancellor. I would even go so far as to say that Labour would be far better served by Mr [...]

By Sean O'Grady | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Friday, 8 October 2010 at 6:30 pm

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Why I’m scared of James Blunt

Without meaning to I think I just entered into a terrifying and legally binding contract with James Blunt.
Earlier this afternoon an envelope arrived on my desk containing the posh troubadour’s latest album ‘Some Kind of Trouble’. Not the best freebie in the world I know but the odd James Blunt album is kind of an [...]

By John Hall | Arts | Friday, 8 October 2010 at 4:43 pm

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Liverpool must win the court battle

Liverpool must win the High Court case next week in order to accept the £300m bid from Boston Red Sox owner John W Henry and his consortium. And in doing so they will finally be rid of the current owners, fellow Americans Tom Hicks and George Gillett.
Henry has proved what he can [...]

By Gary Newbon | Sport | Friday, 8 October 2010 at 3:16 pm

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Cycle Show (porn, basically)

No time this year to get to the Cycle Show in London nor even to write very much except to recommend it to anyone who likes perving on hot bikes.
So yeah, go there. It’s at Earls Court in West London and is open today till Sunday. They’ve got test areas, gear and loads of bikes [...]

By Simon Usborne | Cyclotherapy, Notebook | Friday, 8 October 2010 at 2:28 pm