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Posted on January 30, 2010
Mathew Parris: Blair’s world view: simply goodies v baddies
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    Tony Blair accused of putting war with Iran on the electoral agenda
    Posted on January 30, 2010
    Blair said many of the arguments that led him to confront the "profoundly wicked, almost psychopathic" Saddam Hussein seven years ago now applied to the regime in Tehran. "We face the same problem about Iran today," he told the Chilcot inquiry.
  • Blair attacked over Iran stance
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    • Quangos are a luxury we don't need, and certainly can't afford
    Posted on January 30, 2010
    The abolition of thousands of non-productive non-jobs should be top of Mr Darling's Budget hit list
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    Pranksters use fake videos of politicians to draw attention to poverty
    Posted on January 30, 2010
    The Yes Men, an international group of activists, are calling for the Davos Forum to solve the problem of poverty.
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    • Don't fall sick out of hours: Scandal of GPs refusing to work nights and weekends
    Posted on January 30, 2010
    The NHS Alliance - an independent body that represents NHS professionals working outside hospitals, including some GPs - is calling for doctors to take back at least some of the responsibilities they cast off in 2004. Many patients who have experienced the shortcomings of the system - such as negotiating complex phone systems or being forced to take a sick child to a dropin centre in the middle of the night - would go further and demand that, in return for their increased salaries, doctors would be available when they were most needed.
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    In the West Bank's stony hills, Palestine is slowly dying
    Posted on January 30, 2010
    In the richest of the Occupied lands, Israeli bureaucracy is driving Palestinians out of their homes. Robert Fisk reports from Jiftlik
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    Greece is the word that should strike fear into all those who love the euro
    Posted on January 30, 2010
    The debt crisis engulfing Greece has dominated financial markets all week. Alistair Osborne gives his take.
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    Weekend Travel Guide
    Posted on January 30, 2010
    Independent
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    Weekend Cinema: Film News and Reviews
    Posted on January 30, 2010
    Independent
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    •Film trailers
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    • Weekend book reviews
    Posted on January 30, 2010
    Independent
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    Haiti has sunk to 'below zero' and revival 'generations away'
    Posted on January 30, 2010
    Rebuilding Haiti will take generations because the earthquake-shattered country was starting from "below zero" and logistics remained a "nightmare", the United Nations warned today.
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    French luxury tells a tale of China's haves and have-nots
    Posted on January 30, 2010
    They made a serious amount of money in the booming China of the Noughties, and now it is time for their habitat to match. So why not a plush villa in French chateau style, a few minutes from Beijing airport?
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    Deep in Debt, Spain Cuts Spending by $70 Billion
    Posted on January 30, 2010
    The national statistics office in Madrid said Friday that unemployment was 18.8 percent in the fourth quarter, up from 17.9 percent in the previous period. According to Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics agency, 44.5 percent of people under 25 in Spain were without work at the end of 2009.
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    Free social care costs underestimated
    Posted on January 30, 2010
    The government has "significantly underestimated" the cost of delivering free social care, council chiefs say. A poll of 61 directors of social services suggested providing care to those most in need costs £200 a week - double the government's estimate.
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    Ian Burrell: Press pounce on defensive error to snatch victory
    Posted on January 30, 2010
    In rushing to the courts to gag the News of the World John Terry gifted a victory to the media.
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    Papers dissect Tony Blair's evidence at Iraq inquiry
    Posted on January 30, 2010
    Tony Blair's appearance at the Iraq inquiry is examined in detail in the papers with the Times among those to focus on his apparent lack of regret.
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    • The Sports Report
    Posted on January 30, 2010
    Football:
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