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ALCOHOL is the new tobacco, a cash cow ripe for milking.Read
IN the public sector, the culture of reward for failure is in-bred.Read
IN the 1990s, the voters of a Liverpool suburb set an electoral record that has survived years of mounting apathy.Read
IN MOSCOW, the roads used to be closed to the proletariat so that members of the Politbureau could drive uninterrupted to the Kremlin.Read
AS jobs go, it’s not a bad one.Read
NEW new form of tax terrorism could be coming to England's doorsteps soon.Read
IN THE 50s close and thriving communities were destroyed so families could be herded into soulless tower block flats.Read
THERE'S a link between Post Office closures, fortnightly bin collections and expensive home improvement packs.Read
WE WENT to war to find Saddam's weapons of mass destruction - that simply didn't exist.Read
THE true cost of petrol is around 45p a litre.Read
IT IS not only the voters of Crewe and Nantwich who resent the way the government picks their pockets with stealth taxes.Read
IT USED to be better to travel hopefully than arrive.Read
IT WAS October 2005 when the earth moved in the foothills of the Himalayas.Read
AS an insult, it lacked a lot in snappiness, spite and spleen.Read
NEARLY 200 heroin addicts have won a £10,000 a head payout because the authorities stopped them taking drugs in prison.Read
A HEROIN addict who burgled his grandmother's home has been spared further time behind bars.Read
GETTING elected to the House of Commons is better than being enrolled in the Mafia.Read
IT USED to be that captains went down with their ships. But this is England, a country where nothing succeeds like failure.Read
THIS week's edition of You Couldn't Make It Up comes courtesy of Virgin Trains, whose services on the Manchester-Birmingham New Street-Euston run are becoming increasingly over-crowded.Read
WHAT makes my blood boil is not so much being used as a human cashpoint to bail out the government but the incompetent way our money is spent.Read
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