The New Yorker on Banksy
This week’s New Yorker has a fascinating profile of the graffiti artist Banky. He’s one of those people you either…
Debatable Polls
At 9p.m. last Thursday, while over 15 million American households were tuned in to “Grey’s Anatomy” on ABC, 1.7 million…
Our shameful indifference
Peter Hain was on the Today programme this morning doing a victory lap for the resumption of devolution in Northern…
Paralysis at Holyrood?
The Scottish Parliament is often reported by London newsreaders as a proxy for Scottish public opinion. In truth, it’s an…
How good is Tony Blair’s French?
Tony Blair’ send his congratulations–or should that be félicitations–to Nicolas Sarkozy.
The Gordfather
“Barzini’s dead. So is Phillip Tattaglia — Moe Greene — Strachi — Cuneo — Today I settle all Family business.”…
Sarkozy’s message to France
Truly extraordinary scenes at the Salle Gaveau in the eighth arrondissement of Paris tonight. Shortly after the official exit polls announcing…
France votes
Anything other than a Nicolas Sarkozy win this evening would be a huge upset. The latest polls show him with…
McCain: I’ll pursue OBL "to the gates of hell"
Thursday wasn’t only election night here, but also the first Republican primary debate of 2008. Over at Comment Central Daniel…
If you like this…
If you’re enjoying Coffee House, I do hope you’ll take a look at Stephen Pollard’s new blog and Clive Davis’s—which…
Why Friday was a very good day
Good news from Paris. No, not the capital of France which, it seems likely, will tomorrow crown Sarkozy its President.…
Why PR is bad
The situation about to unfold in Scotland is why I can’t stand PR. First of all, not one voter will…
It’s a Facebook world we’re living in
A couple of months ago I had never heard of Facebook. Now, I place internal bets with myself at every…
Required viewing for all MPs
It’s a pity that the elections yesterday coincided with Molly Dineen’s documentary ‘The Lie of the Land’ because I imagine…
Sarkozy’s lead widens
To shift focus in our election coverage to across the Channel, Nicolas Sarkozy’s lead is widening. Two new polls out…
Recreating an Elgar premiere
What is the peculiar magic of string quartets? Ian McEwan posed this question when I interviewed him recently. It came…
Election night blogging on Coffee House
Our indefatigable political editor Fraser Nelson will be blogging the election results as they come in. He’s also one of…
Comment Away
We’ve had had some problems earlier today with the comments but that’s now fixed–apologies if you tried to post earlier. So…
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