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<description><![CDATA[Energy firm E.On is to raise gas prices by 26% and electricity prices by 16% on 22 August, blaming higher wholesale costs.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Organisers of the 2012 London Olympics have not been intimidated by the dazzling Beijing Games, mayor Boris Johnson says.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[A 46-year-old man convicted of murdering a grandfather by forcing a walking stick down his throat receives a life sentence.]]></description>
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<title>Ex-Kitten Katona is made bankrupt</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Former Atomic Kitten pop star Kerry Katona is declared bankrupt at the High Court after failing to meet a tax bill.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Three rotating trees installed in the middle of a busy city road junction are the latest addition to Liverpool's artistic landscape.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Compare your grades with everyone else's]]></description>
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<title>Walk on water</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Think bridges are built just to cross water? Think again]]></description>
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<title>Swell party</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A solo ocean rower's life-saving dinner date]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[New target hanging over hundreds of schools]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Fifty years on from the riots which led to carnival ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Keighley MP Ann Cryer - a champion of new laws to stop women being forced into marriage - is to step down at the general election. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[UK housebuilder Persimmon reports a sharp drop in half-year profits as it struggles to deal with the housing market downturn.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The national census is out of date, costly and should be scrapped immediately, a report says.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Obesity fears, eat your heart out - the challenge to eat a steak the size of a phone directory in one hour.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The cartoon band sang "tra la la". The reggae legend warbled "woy yo yo". Similar. Very similar.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[A plane crash in Madrid which killed more than 150 people dominates many of Thursday's newspapers.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The father of Jimmy Mizen, who was killed at a London bakery, is to collect his son's GCSE coursework results.]]></description>
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<title>First use of Taser stun gun in NI</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Taser stun gun is used for the first time in Northern Ireland by police in Londonerry to subdue a man.]]></description>
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<title>Hospitals need &#x27;culture change&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A health watchdog calls for a 'culture change' after inspectors find evidence of poor hygiene in five hospitals. ]]></description>
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<title>Unknown man found dead in street</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Detectives try to identify a man who was found dead in a street on the south side of Glasgow in the early hours of the morning. ]]></description>
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<title>Six key species get woodland aid</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A programme is launched to help create a brighter future for six different woodland species across Scotland.]]></description>
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<title>GCSE girl dies in truck collision</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A 16-year-old girl, thought to be on her way to collect her GCSE results, has died after a collision with a refuse truck. ]]></description>
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<title>Community help rebuild arson home</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A couple, whose son burned down their home, are helped to rebuild their house by their local community.]]></description>
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<title>The Tories and values: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[A mini-revival of social conservatism is in the airBRITISH conservatives have largely eschewed the culture wars fought by the American right. Tories have had old-fashioned views on marriage and other moral issues, to be sure, but they have rarely given them much prominence. The lack of a vocal religious right partly explains why they have had a cooler relationship with the Republicans than the Labour Party enjoys with the Democrats. And David Cameron, their leader, began his stewardship of the party in liberal style, declaring himself eminently relaxed about the exotic lifestyles to be found in modern Britain.All the more interesting, then, that recent weeks have seen tentative but unmistakable stirrings of social conservatism from the Tories. In July Mr Cameron gave a speech (in a church, no less) denouncing moral relativism. The fight against crime and other ills was, he said, being hamstrung by society&#8217;s &#8220;refusal to make judgments about what is good and bad&#8221;. On August 4th Michael Gove, the party&#8217;s schools spokesman, deplored the portrayal of women in men&#8217;s magazines. Conservatives such as Iain Duncan Smith, the party&#8217;s former leader, and Ed Vaizey, its arts spokesman, have also criticised the British Board of Film Classification for giving the new Batman film a lenient 12A rating. Even the party&#8217;s embrace of the &#8220;libertarian paternalism&#8221; espoused in &#8220;Nudge&#8221;, the year&#8217;s most talked-about book among policymakers, is telling.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Inflation: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[As long as prices surge the Bank of England cannot cut interest rates. That will not help a floundering governmentOVER the past few months the economy has developed a disquieting tendency to outgloom the gloomiest prediction. The housing market in particular has fared much worse than expected as house prices, turnover and residential investment have all tumbled. That is one big reason why economic activity is turning down sharply, trumping earlier forecasts of a moderate slowdown and pushing up the jobless count. But above all the upsurge in inflation has proved far more extreme than was once projected. The Bank of England has the task of keeping the annual rate of inflation, measured by the consumer-prices index (CPI), at 2%. As recently as March it appeared to be on top of the job: inflation, at 2.5%, was only a bit higher than the official target. But by May inflation had reached 3.3% and it vaulted to 4.4% in July. The 0.6 percentage-point rise since June, when inflation was 3.8%, was the biggest since the series started in 1997. ...]]></description>
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<title>English spelling: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The rules need updating, not scrappingGHOTI and tchoghs may not immediately strike readers as staples of the British diet; and even those most enamoured of written English&#8217;s idiosyncrasies may wince at this tendentious rendering of &#8220;fish and chips&#8221;. Yet the spelling, easily derived from other words*, highlights the shortcomings of English orthography. This has long bamboozled foreigners and natives alike, and may underlie the national test results released on August 12th which revealed that almost a third of English 14-year-olds cannot read properly. One solution, suggested recently by Ken Smith of the Buckinghamshire New University, is to accept the most common misspellings as variants rather than correct them. Mr Smith is too tolerant, but he is right that something needs to change. Due partly to its mixed Germanic and Latin origins, English spelling is strikingly inconsistent.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Real ale: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Folk-drink or aspirational libation?EARLS COURT, a vast, high-ceilinged exhibition centre in west London, does not make for a promising pub. There are few seats, and the bright fluorescent lights do little to make drinkers feel at ease. But the lack of creature comforts did not dampen the high spirits of the students, beer connoisseurs and off-duty businessmen attending the Great British Beer Festival, billed as the world&#8217;s biggest, on August 5th-9th. They roamed from bar to bar, sampling over 450 varieties of beer and cider.Such good cheer may seem odd, given that beer seems to be falling out of favour in Britain. Sales have dropped by 9% over the past decade, in part because wine has grown more popular. But not all beers are the same. The festival was organised by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), a 90,000-strong lobbying group promoting traditional, unpasteurised, unfiltered beer, stored and served from casks wherein, with live yeast, it continues to ferment. ...]]></description>
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<title>Nuclear disarmament: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The new nuclear pioneersBRITAIN as a &#8220;disarmament laboratory&#8221;? Tell that one to veterans of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). Earlier this year they celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first Easter protest march to Aldermaston, home of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) where research and design work continues on Britain&#8217;s Trident-based nuclear warheads. Yet AWE has lately been turning its nuclear skills to a rather different purpose: finding solutions to some of the many difficulties that disarmament would pose if it ever turned from slogan to reality.  To CND&#8217;s regret, and the annoyance of the Scottish Nationalists who want to eject the submarines that carry the country&#8217;s nuclear-tipped Trident missiles from their Faslane base on the Clyde, Britain is not about to disarm unilaterally. It remains one of the five officially recognised nuclear powers, alongside America, China, France and Russia. Over the protests of its own left-wingers, last year the Labour government persuaded Parliament to replace the deterrent&#8217;s ageing submarines; legislators will probably have to vote before long on replacing the missiles and warheads too.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Oyster cards: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The contract for London&#8217;s transport card is up for grabsFEW phrases in British politics are more radioactive than &#8220;Private Finance Initiative&#8221; (PFI), a convoluted scheme under which government pays private firms to carry out work on its behalf. Many such contracts have been plagued by delays and costly legal disputes. For all the talk of greater efficiency, the real attraction of building and running schools and hospitals, say, through a PFI arrangement is that it allows the government to shove spending off the official balance sheet (although that loophole is to be closed next year). Yet not all PFIs have been disasters. One of the best has been London&#8217;s Oyster-card system, which allows travellers to store their entitlement to use the Tube or city buses on a computerised card that gets them through ticket barriers with a simple wave of the wallet. The little blue card has been a big success: over 10m have been issued since its launch in 2003, 6m are in active use and four-fifths of the journeys on London&#8217;s public transport involve one. ...]]></description>
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<title>Electric cars: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[For all the political hype, London is still ambivalent about themONCE the preserve of ageing former presidents, overfed golf stars and milkmen, electric vehicles are much in vogue these days. A survey this month by esure, a car-insurance company, found that 71% of British motorists would consider driving one, and all the main political parties have burnished their green credentials by supporting financial incentives for owners of cars with low carbon-dioxide emissions. This, and the painfully high price of petrol, has seen the number of electric cars in London increase dramatically, from 90 in 2003 to 1,600 in 2008.At first glance, this figure seems bound to rise further. Last month Boris Johnson, London&#8217;s new mayor, said that he was setting up a body to support electric-car drivers in the capital&#8212;the Electric Vehicle Partnership for London. Top of its list of things to do is installing more public points at which electric-car owners may top up their batteries. At the moment there are 40 spots dotted around the London streets where drivers who have paid GBP75 for a key can pull in and plug in free of charge, and some privately owned car parks have charging points too. Another 100 charging stations are now on the cards.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Crossing the Thames: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Trouble over bridging watersYOU would not expect Boris Johnson, London&#8217;s newly elected Conservative mayor, to be popular in Newham, a poor east London borough and Labour stronghold that has become a byword for deprivation and poverty. Yet the shock-haired Mr Johnson will have won at least a few grudging admirers with his opposition to the Thames Gateway Bridge, a GBP455m ($890m), six-lane road bridge across the Thames that was championed by Ken Livingstone, his predecessor.East London has traditionally been poorly served by transport infrastructure. The prospect of hosting the Olympic games in 2012 (see article), and a wider plan to build tens of thousands of new homes on semi-derelict land around them, has finally focused minds on the problem. The bridge nearest the site&#8212;Tower Bridge&#8212;is several hundred metres upstream and unsuited to the new traffic that redevelopment will bring. Yet Mr Livingstone&#8217;s big new bridge was unpopular with some residents, who complained that it would send more traffic thundering through their borough. Green groups, too, fretted that extra traffic would mean extra greenhouse gases.  ...]]></description>
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<title>The Anglican Communion: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The bishops got on fine for a while&#8212;but was it only a holiday romance? BY ITS own unusual lights, the Lambeth conference of Anglican bishops was a great success. Its self-imposed task was to avoid any nasty rows between 650 purple-clad gentlemen (and a few purple-clad ladies) who hold widely diverging views on issues which they see as matters of principle, not detail. And a &#8220;surprising level of sheer willingness to stay together&#8221; was finally reported, on August 3rd, by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury&#8212;after nearly three weeks of well-choreographed confraternity in which participants took no votes and made no firm decisions. (Such a luxury would hardly be possible for a body like, say, the International Telecommunication Union, where success is judged by earthly yardsticks.) Still, the Anglican leader&#8217;s own standing as a mediator, doing his best to hold together the almost irreconcilable, rose as a result of the gathering. And in a very Anglican way, the thorny issues facing the church were artfully concealed by euphemism and arcane procedures that will unfold over several years. Minds were distracted from trickier subjects by a hyper-inclusive march against poverty.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Catholics and Anglicans: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[What Roman Catholics fear from an Anglican splitTHE Archbishop of Canterbury was not the only church leader to be thankful that the Lambeth conference ended with the Anglican Communion still in one piece. An almost audible sigh of relief could be heard from the Vatican.&#8220;The last thing the pope would wish to do is support any kind of division,&#8221; said Keith Pecklers, a Jesuit professor of Liturgy at the Gregorian University in Rome. That may seem odd. If the Church of England splits, Catholicism stands to gain new adherents. Traditionally minded Anglican priests and bishops&#8212;and, in some cases, most of their flocks&#8212;can be expected to defect to Rome.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Northern Rock: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The mortgage lender&#8217;s cash call is an ominous sign for all British banksSTUDENTS of politics (and more than a few politicians) know only too well the old dictum about lies that are repeated often enough becoming truth. Those foolish enough to believe it should take a look at the sorry tale of Northern Rock, a troubled mortgage lender that failed last September when it ran out of cash. For almost a year afterwards Alistair Darling, the chancellor of the exchequer, repeated, mantra-like, that this was a sound bank brought low by events from afar, and that taxpayers would get back every one of the billions of pounds they lent it. On August 5th Mr Darling was mugged by reality when Northern Rock came to him, cap in hand, again. This time the bank wanted help in shoring up its balance-sheet, which is crumbling thanks to a mortgage book that looks worse by the day. The government, which is still owed some GBP21 billion ($41 billion) by the hapless bank, has agreed to convert as much as GBP3 billion of the debt (as well as some GBP400m in preference shares) into ordinary shares. This urgent need for capital should make those who still think taxpayers will get all their money back think twice. So should those who dare to hope that Britain&#8217;s banks have seen the worst of the credit crisis. ...]]></description>
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<title>Energy dilemma: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[When poverty and greenery collideTHE Camp for Climate Action&#8212;an annual gathering of anarchists and environmentalists&#8212;is fast becoming a summer fixture. Having protested outside Drax (a big coal-fired power plant) in 2006 and Heathrow airport in 2007, this year they are pitching tents in Kingsnorth, an industrial bit of Kent that is the proposed site of what would be the first new coal power station to be built in Britain for two decades. The protesters point out that coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel and argue that, given official pledges to cut carbon emissions, building new plants using it would be &#8220;stupid&#8221;. Their ambition is to shut down the existing Kingsnorth station, which is also coal-fired, for a day. There have already been several arrests and clashes with the police (whom protesters accuse of harassment); more seem likely on August 9th, their officially designated &#8220;day of mass action&#8221;. ...]]></description>
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<title>Pensions accounting: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Silly accounting may be obscuring a black hole in pension fundsUNITED UTILITIES and Scottish and Southern Energy are similar in many respects. Both are energy utilities that supply electricity and gas. Both employ thousands and run huge pension funds. Yet when calculating the cost of those pensions, the similarities end. The two companies have chosen to use very different assumptions&#8212;and these choices have a big impact on the pension surplus or deficit on their balance-sheets. When discounting their eventual obligations (figuring out the cost today of paying pensions years in the future), United Utilities has used a rate of 6%, Scottish and Southern one of 6.9%. The difference may not seem much, but Lane Clark &amp; Peacock, a firm of actuaries, reckons that Scottish and Southern&#8217;s pension liabilities come out about GBP350m lower than if it had used United&#8217;s rate&#8212;a material difference for a fund that in 2007 was GBP92m in the red. ...]]></description>
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<title>The other Olympics: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[As the Beijing games get under way, London prepares to play host in 2012. The economic downturn will make the next lap hard goingSKELETONS, unexploded bombs and a noxious smell greet visitors to the site in east London that will host the Olympic games four years from now. The site, which takes up about one square mile, once housed chemical factories, gasworks and other mucky industries; centuries-worth of reeking goo are now being removed from the soil by gigantic washing machines. Archaeologists have discovered Iron Age skeletons deeper down (under the Olympic swimming pools) and suspect the Knights Templar ran a water mill somewhere near the proposed velodrome.The awkwardness of the site, which 52 pylons, now buried, once criss-crossed, and the poverty of its surroundings were central to the appeal of getting the games for London. As well as generating national pride, the government was anxious to jazz up a poverty-stricken bit of the capital. &#8220;It was partly an emotional decision. When you take the Tube out there, life expectancy drops at every stop as you go further east,&#8221; says a former aide to Tony Blair, the prime minister who approved the deal. ...]]></description>
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<title>Housing market : </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lending has slowed to a trickle. What can be done to change that?WOOLWICH is a down-at-heel working-class port in East London that teeters between gentrification and decay. To the right of the railway station are the money-wiring agencies, mobile-phone shops and African restaurants that identify this as an immigrant neighbourhood. To the left the high street leads to the river, and rows of smart new apartment blocks designed for bankers working in nearby Canary Wharf. The house-price bubble inflated here as fast as just about anywhere in the country. Get-rich-quick investors helped by crafting dubious schemes to get mortgages without paying a deposit and banks seemed happy to oblige them. Instead of making a quick pound, though, many buyers are now losing their shirts. Flats that they bought three years ago for GBP330,000 ($580,000 at the time) are back on the market for less than GBP200,000. One was sold at auction recently for just GBP115,000. In March (the most recent month for which data are available) the average outstanding mortgage in this neighbourhood was 91% of the value of the property it was secured on&#8212;the highest loan-to-value ratio in London and the third-highest in the country, reckons Experian, a credit-scoring outfit. With banks virtually on strike and loans approved only for those able to put up huge deposits, Woolwich is enduring a particularly hard landing. New flats in Thamesmead, downriver from Woolwich, are standing half-empty, the overgrown gardens filled with litter. ...]]></description>
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<title>Bagehot: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Are the stakes high enough to justify regicide?THE word &#8220;fascist&#8221; was whispered by some discomforted observers at last year&#8217;s Labour Party conference: so triumphalist was the mood, so impregnable seemed the new prime minister, so confident his followers of smashing the Conservatives, snuffing out David Cameron and securing near-eternal power. That was then. The Labour conference this September will be a festival of existential angst&#8212;and thus, perhaps, of regicide.The political costs of deposing Gordon Brown so soon after Labour ditched Tony Blair would be huge. Almost all Labour MPs endorsed Mr Brown&#8217;s accession; ousting him would make them look preposterous. His remaining allies point out, menacingly but fairly, that yet another prime minister with no personal mandate would probably feel obliged to hold a general election quickly. Thus a move against Mr Brown this autumn might necessitate a vote early next year&#8212;in the middle of an economic slump, with the party almost broke and Mr Cameron&#8217;s Tories, in all likelihood, still 20-odd points up in the polls. That prospect makes sparing Mr Brown, at least until next summer, seem prudent. ...]]></description>
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<title>Housing market: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Prices may be tumbling, but rents are still risingBRITAIN is a nation divided by its citizens&#8217; attitudes to the housing market. Among investors, estate agents and homeowners with eye-watering mortgages the mood is gloomy: every piece of news about the rapidly deflating housing bubble (prices have fallen by 9% since last October) is pored over and lamented. Among the young and houseless, price falls are a cause for celebration, even if the logjam in the money markets means that at present only those with the fattest piggy-banks can take advantage of cheaper homes. But capital values are only one part of the housing story. Britain&#8217;s private rental sector has grown enormously over the past five years, fuelled by a vogue for &#8220;buy-to-let&#8221; schemes that has promoted rental property as a safe, indeed highly profitable, investment. Half a million private landlords now control 2.5m homes, roughly an eighth of the total housing supply. The Association of Residential Letting Agents reckons that the value of rented homes, estimated at around GBP500 billion, exceeds the total value of all the commercial premises in Britain. And although falling capital values will hurt landlords, their gloom is brightened somewhat by the fact that there is plenty of business, and rents are still rising.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Teaching economics: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The dwindling number of those training to teach economics in secondary schools is less worrying than it seemsIN EARLY July Edinburgh belatedly erected a statue, complete with semi-invisible hand, to Adam Smith, thus granting one of the fathers of economics, and Scotland&#8217;s most meritorious son, long-overdue recognition. Yet there is a good chance that the statue will garner as many glances of blank indifference as of knowing admiration&#8212;at least from Britain&#8217;s younger citizens.According to a report this week from the Centre for Education and Employment Research at the University of Buckingham, only three of the 16,440 graduates who began training as secondary-school teachers in England last year enrolled to teach economics. In 2006, by comparison, 84 graduates signed up to do so. Not unrelatedly, perhaps, the number of students studying A-level economics has fallen by 29% over the past decade, even though total A-level entries have risen by 9%. ...]]></description>
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<title>The race to succeed Gordon Brown: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The job of prime minister is not yet vacant, but hopefuls are alertTHE poetry of Alfred Tennyson is the kind of thing Gordon Brown, perhaps Britain&#8217;s most literate prime minister since Winston Churchill, takes with him on the reading marathons he calls holidays. Yet even Mr Brown, now on his summer break in East Anglia (see article), will struggle to enjoy the Victorian poet laureate&#8217;s observation that &#8220;authority forgets a dying king&#8221;. For it hits too close to home.Mr Brown, who replaced Tony Blair as prime minister only 13 months ago, may soon be toppled by colleagues who have lost confidence in his ill-starred premiership. On July 24th his party suffered a by-election defeat in Glasgow East, hitherto one of Labour&#8217;s safest seats. It was the latest of many proofs of Mr Brown&#8217;s unpopularity, following by-election routs elsewhere, an abysmal showing at May&#8217;s local elections, the loss of London&#8217;s mayoralty to a Conservative and months of opinion polls that put the Tories up to 20 percentage points ahead of Labour.  ...]]></description>
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