Thursday, April 4, 2013

George Osborne: like Fernando Torres, only less effective | Isn’t it Byronic? | Osborne's intervention over the Philpott case is a new low

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Editor's Choice

Five must-read pieces from the magazine

  1. Lapland's Sami people: how do you decide who is indigenous and who isn't?
    The Arctic spring. By Cal Flyn

  2. Why Allende had to die
    Sedition in Santiago. By Gabriel García Márquez

  3. Tea with Queen Judi, bicycling in Amsterdam and hunting for WMDs with Hans Blix
    Jon Snow's diary. By Jon Snow

  4. Isn't it Byronic?
    An afternoon of overpriced burgers among the iPeople is not half bad. By Will Self

  5. Reviewed: In the House directed by François Ozon
    Here's looking at you, kid. By Ryan Gilbey

Five must-read blogs

  1. George Osborne: like Fernando Torres, only less effective
    While the Chancellor waffled on about how "we are all in this together", it was announced that the Queen was receiving a 16 per cent boost to her Government grant and the likes of Torres will get a staggering tax break next year. By Alex Andreou

  2. Are attacks on goths, heavy metal fans and other "subcultures" hate crimes?
    A legal and bureaucratic scheme that privileges some types of hate crime as special while ignoring others is dangerous in itself, says Nelson Jones. By Nelson Jones

  3. Was this tragedy really a "vile product" of Welfare UK?
    The Daily Mail's incendiary oversimplification of a complex tragedy is offensive to many. But as ever it's all too easy for the victims to be forgotten once the internecine media squabbles reach fever pitch. By Alan White

  4. 12 April 1968: "The country has lost not just Dr King but the King"
    Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated forty-five years ago today. Here, Alan Brien reports from a grief-stricken New York. By Alan Brien

  5. Osborne's intervention over the Philpott case is a new low
    The Chancellor's decision to exploit the public grief over the deaths of the Philpott children in order to make the case for cutting welfare is political opportunism at its worst. By George Eaton

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