Golden Oldies

(12-12-1999)
Is 'Match Point' really a return to form for Woody Allen? Click here to read a very pessemistic assessment of Allen's recent oeuvre that Toby wrote in the Spectator in 1999

RT @rcbl: Just turned on the Superbowl! Who knew that Willem Dafoe could sing and dance like that? Truly an amazing entertainer! (4 hours ago)

BEST OF THE WEB

The anti-academies campaign is led by Trots, says Michael Gove - bbc.co.uk

Quentin Letts applies for job of D-G of the BBC - independent.co.uk

Lasagne-gate - Daily Mail

Profit need not be a dirty word in education by Fraser Nelson - telegraph.co.uk

Dirty Hari by Jonathan Foreman - nosacredcows.co.uk

Osbornism by Matthew D'Ancona - thisislondon.co.uk

Can Michael Gove save Britain's schools? by Simon Heffer - Daily Mail

Restore elitism to our schools says Michael Gove - Daily Mail

Profile of Angela Merkel by Jon Henley - Guardian

Rod Liddle: Liberal Fundamentalist - independent.co.uk

Is UKIP about to become the third force in British politics? - blogs.telegraph.co.uk

Norman Geras on #occupylsx - normblog.typepad.com

The Magnificent Victory at Cardinal Vaughan by Charles Moore - telegraph.co.uk

Cameron is facing class war within his own party by Dominic Lawson - independent.co.uk

Labour's 16-year-old child star went to a private school - Daily Mail

Matthew d'Ancona's verdict on Ed Miliband's conference speech - thisislondon.co.uk

Michael Gove and the nest of vipers by Ian Birrell - Daily Mail

Bagehot on Hari's character flaws - economist.com

Academies policy has been rapidly vindicated by Fraser Nelson - spectator.co.uk

Sign this e-petition to restore teaching of Classics in schools - submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk

Mossbourne Academy's outstanding A-level results - Guardian

I blame therapy culture for the riots by Dennis Hayes - thefreesociety.org

The riots have unveiled a Hobbesian universe by Matthew D'Ancona - thisislondon.co.uk

Are we witnessing the collapse of the rule of law? by Rupert Myers - thelawyer.com

Michael Gove v Harriet Harmon on the riots - youtube.com

The riots at the end of history by David Goodhart - prospectmagazine.co.uk

Cameron needs some enforcers at Number 10 by John McTernan - telegraph.co.uk

Phone-hacking rage is Caliban raging at his own reflection by Dominic Lawson - independent.co.uk

Why I'm a Conservative by Toby Young - nosacredcows.co.uk

Christine Blower's 10% pay rise - Daily Mail

The Government must crack the teaching unions by His Grace - archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com

Labour should stop protesting about the cuts says former Gen Sec - labour-uncut.co.uk

Telegraph feature on the ARK-sponsored Evelyn Grace Academy - telegraph.co.uk

Socialist Workers Party about to go belly up? - hurryupharry.org

"Ideological" is Labour's empty insult by Dominic Lawson - independent.co.uk

There is an alternative to the cuts – deeper and faster cuts - conservativehome.blogs.com

Leader of UK Uncut is middle class Oxford graduate - Daily Mail

Stephen Glover on the real magnitude of the cuts: Just 3% in real terms in the lifetime of this Parliament - Daily Mail

Peter Sissons dissects the BBC's leftwing bias - Daily Mail

Gove's school reforms reach tipping point - spectator.co.uk

Student protester privately-educated Cambridge undergraduate with father worth £78m - Daily Mail

Ed Balls gave £600,000 of taxpayers' money to the football team he supports - Daily Mail

Dominic Sandbrook on the rise of the Political Class - Daily Mail

Brown in his bunker: Final Hours - Guardian

Interview with Toby Young in Attain magazine - attainmagazine.co.uk

New York Times on News of the World phone hacking scandal - nytimes.com

Topic of Cancer by Christopher Hitchens - Vanity Fair

The perils of being a freelance journalist by Richard Morgan - theawl.com

Larry David interview in the Guardian - Guardian

Profile of David Cameron by Matthew D'Ancona - telegraph.co.uk

The truth about Corin Redgrave and the Workers Revolutionary Party - standpointmag.co.uk

Louis Theroux: I was Nick Clegg's fag at public school - telegraph.co.uk

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