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• How green are you going to make your Valleys, Mr Jones?

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  on Saturday May 25th, 2013 at 09:30 AM

  Wales has been bidding to be the worlds greenest nation, but many environmentalists fear it is now backsliding. In an open letter to its First Minister, Carwyn Jones, in my column I challenge him to come clean on his intentions in a public conversation with me at the Telegraph Hay Festival today.

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• Thanks to Dave, it’s no longer cool to be posh

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  on Friday May 24th, 2013 at 07:58 PM

  From Saturdays Daily Telegraph Dont call me a toff, said my friend the country vicar at dinner the other night. I went to a comprehensive in Leeds. How the other guests beamed. Good for you, Robin! But I nearly spat out my elderflower cordial in surprise. (Its amazing how much elderflower is forced on you [...]

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• Don’t glamourise these losers by treating them as international terrorists

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  on Friday May 24th, 2013 at 04:44 PM

  When we call a man a terrorist, we bestow a certain status on him. He ceases to be a common criminal, a violent narcissist, a drop-out. He becomes, instead, a man with a cause. Bellicose young men, in all ages and nations, look for ideologies that justify their aggression. Sometimes, they latch on to an [...]

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• The BBC loses £100 million on useless technology. This happens because of the licence fee. So scrap it

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  on Friday May 24th, 2013 at 04:36 PM

  The BBC has just lost 100 million on pointless new technology. I realise that this wont sound very much money if you are, say, a typical BBC programme director on upwards of 250,000 a year but for some of us once you losing 100 million here and 100 million there then pretty soon youre [...]

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• Time to ban the word community

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  on Friday May 24th, 2013 at 01:20 PM

  Tune into any BBC London programme at the moment and one word dominates. That word is community. Even on a normal day on the capitals airwaves you will hear it a great deal, but in the aftermath of the Woolwich terror attack its use has gone into overdrive. On the BBC London news last night [...]

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• If David Cameron wants to be PM after 2015, he should take lessons from Stanley Baldwin

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  on Friday May 24th, 2013 at 01:09 PM

  David Cameron is never lacking for advice. Something he probably hasnt been told is to look to Stanley Baldwin. Ninety years ago, Baldwin became prime minister and, despite a grim financial inheritance and a divided party, won three general elections. Tory splits on Europe and gay marriage are nothing compared to the divisions of Baldwins [...]

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• Eton boys are taught they were born to rule. It’s a shame so many are not

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  on Friday May 24th, 2013 at 12:26 PM

  David Cameron. Oliver Letwin. Boris and Jo Johnson. Jesse Norman, on the Prime Ministers new policy board. Ed Llewellyn, the PMs chief of staff. Rupert Harrison, the Chancellors chief economics advisor. Sir George Young, the Chief Whip. Nick Hurd in the Cabinet Office and Hugo Swire in the Foreign Office. Fifty years after the brief [...]

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• The Bank of Japan must crush all resistance, and will do so

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  on Friday May 24th, 2013 at 12:07 PM

  Kudos to Kyle Bass at Hayman Advisers for warning that the Bank of Japan would lose control of its 70 trillion bond buying blitz. The spike in the 10-year yield to 1pc on Thursday was certainly shocking to behold. His point is that the BoJ faces a rational investor paradox. The authorities are trying to [...]

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