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The Third Leader: Eat your purples! Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 24 November 2005

So: the purple sprout is with us, to follow the blue potato, the maroon carrot, the white cucumber and the red cabbage ice cream, earlier attempts to entice children into eating what's good for them. Unusually for this space, we do not feel terribly optimistic.

James Dyson: How To Be Different #2 Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 23 November 2005

Break the rules

The Third Leader: 1066 et tout ça... Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 23 November 2005

Sacré bleu! What is this? The Advertising Standards Authority appears to have decided that mentioning a company's French connections is "denigratory". Well, or eh bien, as they say over there, as usual never using one word when they can use two. This really will have to stop.

Uri Dromi: A seismic event that offers hope Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 22 November 2005

Sharon's motto has always been to gain the initiative and shock the adversary

Catherine Townsend: Sleeping Around Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 22 November 2005

It started with a click...

The Third Leader: Licence for limos Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 22 November 2005

Ah, yes, another day, another pressing issue on which you will be seeking urgent guidance from down here. There are, I see, worries and a proposed parliamentary amendment to do with, indeed, the stretch limousine.

Charles Nevin: News from Elsewhere Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 21 November 2005

The domino effect and how difficult it can be for creatures sharing the planet with us

Ellie Levenson: Better to have loved and lost, even on the internet Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 21 November 2005

A quick look at any online dating site will tell you that everyone is lying

Julia Stephenson: The Green Goddess Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 21 November 2005

I'm the Sloane ranger in the great flower hunt

John Stalker: Good cop... Bad cop Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 20 November 2005

Whatever is uncovered about his role in the Stockwell shooting, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair has demonstrated that he is not up to the job, says Manchester's former Deputy Chief Constable

Toby Dodge: Quitting: as bad as invading

Published: 20 November 2005

Calls to pull out are based on wishful thinking, mendacity and negligence

Toby Young: Hello. My name is Toby and I am bald. So what's your problem? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 20 November 2005

Bald may not be beautiful, but at least you look masculine

Quentin Letts: I came, I saw, I was ejected: why, David, why? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 20 November 2005

Heavies blocked my way. They were chewing biscuits, hard

Rupert Cornwell: Out of America Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 20 November 2005

Big freeze over the Thanksgiving turkey: It's America's most enjoyable family holiday. But in the Bush household, there's a major split

Jemima Lewis: Sex, love and the reality of gigolos Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 19 November 2005

Insecurity is the enemy of the female libido: most of us need to feel desired to enjoy ourselves in bed

Richard Ingrams' Week: Want to sell a book? Make people jealous Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 19 November 2005

I wonder how many of the great and the good who are currently castigating the former ambassador to Washington, Sir Christopher Meyer, for writing his memoirs are motivated purely by jealousy.

Tony Blair: 'We must do more to beat climate change'

Published: 19 November 2005

'We will cut our emissions by 2012 by almost twice the targets set by Kyoto'

Paul Vallely: So what turned Sid Khan into a bomber? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 18 November 2005

Because they have learnt so little about their faith, they embrace it in a perverted form

Matthew Norman: William Hague's a celebrity. Get him out there Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 18 November 2005

To succeed, the only qualifications are to have failed in your career or to be a grotesque. He is both

The Third Leader: The day today Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 18 November 2005

Ladies and Gentlemen, I realise that you come to this particular space for solutions, not problems. You might be prepared to contemplate, mingled in among the incisive analysis and lapidary judgement, the odd carp, but only if it is accompanied by a typically imaginative and inspiring remedy.

David Cameron: How to cure our social malaise

Published: 17 November 2005

Let's give the social enterprise sector higher billing in the debate over public service reform

Alex James: The Great Escape Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 16 November 2005

Quiet life? You must be joking

Katherine Butler: My disgraceful role in exposing EU fraud Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 16 November 2005

This will sound sad, but one of the highlights of the calendar when I was an EU correspondent some years ago was an annual invitation to lunch with a balding middle-aged accountant from Luxembourg. This assignation, always in mid-November, was a secretive event, the setting a private dining room in an excellent but fabulously discreet restaurant, far from the unwelcome attention of prying eyes. He preferred it that way.

The Third Leader: Rubbish solutions Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 15 November 2005

Uplifting news from Ben Nevis: its slopes are now statelier following a litter-picking visit from Wales by Mr Robin Kevan, a retired social worker, after he'd heard about the mess it was in.

James Dyson: How To Be Different Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 15 November 2005

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