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Modern Dilemmas: Wise up! Key steps when taking on office smart alec

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:10:08 GMT

Dear Alex, Someone at work is trying my nerves and contradicting me in meetings and generally causing trouble.

Clare Teal: Welcome relief from stress for a tomato-growing novice

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:57:44 GMT

As a tomato-growing novice, it was with some surprise that, after planting a packet of seeds entitled The Italian Collection, we ended up with 47 sturdy little plants. Add in another five that were birthday presents,

Jane Lovering: Parking space is the final frontier after upsizing

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:55:06 GMT

Out here in the wilds of North Yorkshire, existence without a car is almost impossible. We have no public transport, and it’s a three-mile walk to the nearest bus stop.

Mark Woods: Dads deserve better than stereotypes

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:53:49 GMT

If you’d have told me a year or two back I’d be getting a pair of rubber gardening clogs for Fathers’ Day I wouldn’t have thought it probable.

William Hague: How ever you feel about Europe, it’s time to let the people make a choice

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:50:50 GMT

THE Conservative Party has published its Bill to hold an in-out referendum on our membership of the EU before the end of 2017.

Jayne Dowle: Social mobility is problem for everyone, not just schools

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:47:48 GMT

SIR Michael Wilshaw speaks more sense that many government ministers. The chief inspector of schools knows about children. He taught for years in tough schools, so when he talks about social mobility it is with plenty of insider knowledge. In Access and Achievement, his new report for Ofsted, he warns that we are witnessing a rise in “anti-school culture” – despite education receiving record levels of funding in recent years.

Michael Grade: Impact of arts goes beyond the balance sheet

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:47:46 GMT

Some years ago during a previous recession – I forget which one it was, but you get to my age and they seem to come round so often – I was with a senior Treasury official.

Bernard Ingham: I fear more coalitions lie ahead when country cries out for clear leadership

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:36:31 GMT

OVER lunch at the weekend, I was dismayed to find that chaps I had worked with over the 1980s feel – and, to be fair fear – we are in for another dose of coalition government from 2015. I had hoped that our current experience would have cured the British electorate of political indecisiveness in peacetime. Apparently not.

Jon Trickett: Don’t let voices of the lobbyists drown out democracy

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:36:21 GMT

I’VE recently been to Washington. There is a universal feeling there that the system is bust, broken by the power of big money in politics. Someone told me that America was in danger of becoming a corporate-ocracy not a democracy. Where the corporations dominate; not the people. This must not happen here.

Richard Benyon: Hard-won reform brings sense to fishing policy

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:36:18 GMT

THE Common Fisheries Policy has become a totemic example of failure at EU level.

Common sense an important rule of the road

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:19:48 GMT

From: Mr S B Oliver, Churchill Grove, Heckmondwike.

Values of the Wild West

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:19:45 GMT

From: Roger M Dobson, Ash Street, Cross Hills, Keighley.

Important to value our industrial past

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:19:37 GMT

From: Colin Foster, President, North Eastern Railway Association, Scalby Beck Road, Scarborough.

Fuelling the argument for a more balanced energy policy

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:19:35 GMT

From: Richard Wood, Farnley Tyas, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.

Industries owe debt to under-threat museum

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:07:45 GMT

From: Ian Dewar, former ScotRail commercial officer, Thompson Drive, Middleton on the Wolds, East Riding.

Unfair way to treat volunteers

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:07:38 GMT

From: William Dixon Smith, Welland Rise, Acomb, York.

Time to bring bad airlines back to earth

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:07:34 GMT

From: Jack Kinsman, Stainton Drive, Grimsby.

Blair surely deserves title of Britain’s worst Prime Minister

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:07:28 GMT

From: Jon Marcus, Colville Gardens, Lightwater.

Rory Meakin: A fairer, simpler system would get to root of the problem of tax avoidance

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:55:20 GMT

GOOGLE, Apple and Starbucks are just three of the multi-national companies under fire from the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee and its equivalent in the US Senate for their tax arrangements, one of the defining issues of the G8 summit now underway in Northern Ireland.

Ian McMillan: When the hand of fate knocks at the door

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:55:10 GMT

I WAS upstairs getting shaved; the razor was making a satisfying sound as it scraped my stubbly cheeks until they were as smooth as Kojak’s gleaming bonce.