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Liberals for Palin!

Democrats are in my blood, but I have become a statistic: another turncoat rejecting Obama in favour of the McCain-Palin…

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Has le Carre gone mad?

John le Carre has confessed he thought of defecting. In an interview intended to publicise his new novel The Most…

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Democracy and the West

Tour guides in Georgia invariably ask how Stalin is viewed in the west, inviting suggestions that he was sorely misunderstood.…

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Fight the Power!

Last winter, my son persuaded me to take the family to an exclusive beach resort in Mauritius where some of…

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From Russia with Loot

The gas and oil that flow through snaking pipelines from Russia reach Europe with a great deal more ease than…

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Gordon Fool

Gordon Brown has thrown his fiscal rules out of the window and mucked up the economy. How could he get…

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Rock Solid

Coloured diamonds may not be an obvious safe choice for the astute investor, but their track record speaks for itself…

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Napoleonic Dynamite

At the opening of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in 1792, the Rothschilds were fairly prosperous antique coin and…

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Sale Now On

Big American banks are getting rid of unwanted securities for knock-down prices, and the atmosphere is less end-of-the-season, more end-of-the-pier.…

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Room and Boar

Vanessa Neumann talks to eco-laird Paul Lister about transforming his Highland estate into one of Britain’s most extraordinary nature reserves…

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Chance Encounters

Gambling is the last thing Russia’s high-end casino-goers want to do – they’re really only there to see and be…

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Dada? Da, da!

Ivan Lindsay on the emerging class of ravenously art-hungry Russian collectors for whom money is no object and objects just…

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