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• A political gaffe, served up Belgian style

  Published: July 24, 2007, 7:27 am

  Tags: Europe, Times Story, Video

  So let's now turn to Belgian politics. But only for a laugh because as political gaffes go, this one is pretty serious:Yves Leterme (the new Prime Minister of Belgium) has not yet been officially sworn in but has already...

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• Matthew Parris goes hunting in Bournemouth

  Published: September 26, 2007, 9:51 am

  Tags: Times Story

  What does David Blunkett really think about party conferences? Who actually misses Blair? And which Times journalist most resembles a jackal? Find out all the answers in Matthew Parris's podcasts from the Labour Conference

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• The Bugle is calling....

  Published: October 22, 2007, 8:23 am

  Tags: Times Story

  Forget about the BBC or New York Times. Transatlantic journalism has found a newer, and much funnier, outlet. Enter The Bugle. John Oliver and Andy Saltzman kick off the pond-hopping podcast this week with some crucial questions. Is the British...

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• The Bugle is calling....

  Published: November 13, 2007, 8:07 am

  Tags: Times Story

  Colbert is closed. Stewart shut. But while writers' strikes wreak havoc in Hollywood, our transatlantic satire team bravely struggles on. This week in The Bugle, Andy Zaltazman is forced to get in touch with his inner Frenchman while John Oliver...

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• The best bit of The Times

  Published: May 1, 2008, 5:25 am

  Tags: Times Story

  The entire price of the paper this morning would be worth paying even if it had only contained this one joke by Hugo Rifkind.In the May edition of France magazine, the BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson enthuses about his flat in Paris. But it has one big drawback. "If the Eiffel Tower fell over," he says, "it would slice

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• Albert Einstein's exclusive article for The Times

  Published: June 18, 2008, 10:52 am

  Tags: Times Story

  to be correct. The story of Eddington's discovery appeared first in The Times. The New York Times sent its golfing correspondent who, having first decided not to show up to the Eddington announcement, changed his mind and found the room was too packed to get in. Having scooped the story, The Times proceeded to obtain an exclusive

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• A change in roles

  Published: June 23, 2008, 6:38 am

  Tags: Times Story

  Alert readers might notice a change this morning in the thumb portrait on the top right hand corner of Comment Central. Until this week it told visitors that I was Comment Editor of The Times. This morning it gives my new title - I have taken over as Chief Leader Writer of The Times. I will be continuing with Comment Central.

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• Happy birthday William

  Published: July 14, 2008, 12:29 pm

  Tags: Times Story

  gets job at the Financial Times, the first of his 56 years (and counting) as a journalist. 1956: speech writer for the Prime Minister, Anthony Eden 1965: writes a leading article in the Sunday Times which helps convince Alec Douglas-Home to stand down as leader of the Conservative Party. 1964: appointed deputy-editor of the Sunday Times.

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