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Dom Joly: In France, there is just a hint of bitterness

On French TV there is a just a hint of bitterness in the commentary at the fact that the games are not in Paris. The French have done rather well in the London games and have improved considerably on...

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Cooper Brown: Back home

After he’d set fire to the hotel corridor I checked him out the next day and moved him into the Cooperdome – where it’s my house, my rules. He goes to set with me every day – then he can do what he...

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Cooper Brown: Stake out

I watched Mulligan carefully attach these sucker pads to each window and “arm”the system. Of course, he couldn’t resist checking that the thing was working and I nearly fell of the balcony laughing...

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Cooper Brown: Winning the War

I opened a bottle of champagne and waited for the show to begin. It didn’t take long. An hour after we’d started I was just peeking at the plump Italian girl who always gets changed with the curtains...

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Editorial: Watch your back, Mr Obama

Quite apart from the human tragedy, the killing of Chris Stevens, the US ambassador to Libya, in Benghazi last week is of huge symbolic value. At first glance, the President might appear to have come...

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Cooper Brown: Charged

I drove down with Victoria and dropped her off at her parents before heading for the police station. I knew where it was, as I’d had to go there after Victoria’s mom had been arrested when she...

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The Sketch: So was this a U-turn or tactical retreat? Either way, Labour MPs...

But it's a sort of golfers' optimism – you slice out on to the wrong fairway and, looking over a hedge, a copse, and a small lake to the green, say: "It's a good way in from here." It's a rotten way...

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Welfare reforms are little more than a sticking plaster

Public opinion has hardened against benefit claimants. The Government's most popular policy is the £26,000-a-year cap on welfare payments for a family, in line with average earnings, which left Labour...

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Cooper Brown: A/C list

Why is it that the bigger flop your career is, the bigger your ego becomes? This guy was definitely an A-list player… but that was some time ago and he seriously needs this movie to bring him back...

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Dylan Jones: 'The Canyon Country Store in LA is still the place to go for ...

Despite being the subject of standard-issue gentrification, the Canyon has kept the funky, rainbow-coloured charm of the Love Generation, something that is most apparent when visiting the Canyon...

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Sloane Crosley: 'I'd rather have a root canal than have my photo taken'

But behavioural maturity requires little instruction. We grow up. Of course, I wouldn't be writing this if I weren't already thinking of a personal exception. For me, nothing brings out my "born...

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Cooper Brown: Losing the urge

I did admit my choice of vigilante wasn’t the sharpest tool in the box, but what else could I do? I sent Mulligan off on one of those open-top tours of the capital as I was really in a mood with him...

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Alex James: No longer any need to emigrate to Provence

When I was younger I thought I'd end up in France. Sometimes I still dream of spending a couple of years in Sierra Leone, or Laos, taking a complete change of scenery. But a lot has changed here since...

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Editorial: No end to disputes in the China seas

China's move follows Japan's recent purchase of three of the islands from their private owners, despite strong objections from Beijing, which claims sovereignty. Now China's ambassador in Tokyo has...

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Simon Kelner: How the celebrities gave way to the real achievers

But then inject a big old measure of Olympian spirit into the atmosphere, and just watch the toxic fumes evaporate. This is what happened at the Royal Opera House the other night. The GQ Men of the...

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Editorial: More care is needed, but so is a cure

But it is not only sufferers who stand to lose, as the disease strips them of their dignity and personality. The human and financial cost is rising as populations age, imposing an ever-greater burden...

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Sloane Crosley: 'We wait too long to mention a significant other because we...

She only realised that her colleague had failed to spot it when she walked into the restaurant to find him dressed in a suit, pulling out her chair with one hand and holding flowers in the other. As...

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Sloane Crosley: 'It’s difficult to escape insomnia'

Unfortunately, once you're in the grips of insomnia, it's difficult to escape it. True, there are pills that will knock you out, but who wants to get a 3am start on drug use? So you try everything....

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Editorial: An unsuitable corporate match

Were the tie-up to go ahead, the result would certainly be vast: a sprawling conglomerate with more than 200,000 employees, selling everything from bullets to spacecraft everywhere from Brazil to...

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Dylan Jones: 'A Tribe Called Quest appeared unembarrassed about having a...

"Nothing was touching Tribe, nothing," said Pharrell Williams, and for a while he was right. As one critic succinctly put it, they "heralded the advent of a generation of intellectual, philosophical,...

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