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Could Ed Miliband be Labour's Margaret Thatcher?

'Ed wants to break the consensus. What attracts him to Thatcherism is the insurgency.' Detail from artwork by David Foldvari Twenty-three years ago, on the morning that a cornered Margaret Thatcher…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 16, 2013
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2635 words)

Amy Adams: 'David O Russell said to me: "You are so not the princess type"'

Amy Adams: ‘I always felt a sense of victory if I could make Clint Eastwood laugh.’ Photograph: Jeff Vespa/Contour by Getty Images It's an absolutely archetypal American face; you can read a…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 22, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1834 words)

Ukip: the party that's coming in from the cold

Nigel Farage: the former Tory first became leader of Ukip in 2006. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters In the long slipstream of this year's party conference season, British politics seems to have gone…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2383 words)

10cc: 'It was a tragedy we didn't stay together'

10cc at the height of their fame, in 1976 (left to right): Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Lol Creme, Kevin Godley. Photograph: Erica Echenberg/Redferns Forget the Stone Roses' comeback and the mooted…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 22, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1508 words)

How to cook the perfect chocolate cake

Felicity's perfect chocolate cake. Photograph: Felicity Cloake A few weeks ago, I made an ever-so secret birthday cake for one of my housemates. Chocolate, naturally: the cast iron crowd-pleaser of…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 21, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1690 words)

Long reads of the week: Psy, Nate Silver, Twilight, Louis Walsh and Kickstarter

The Long Good Read in newspaper form. Photo: Dan Catt/Flickr We publish a lot of stories here on guardian.co.uk. On an average day, around 400 stories are launched by our editorial team and sometimes…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 23, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (733 words)

David Mitchell and Robert Webb: fear and loathing in Croydon

More agony … Robert Webb and David Mitchell in the new Peep Show. Sitting forward in an earnest fashion and pushing back his flop of brown hair, David Mitchell is explaining why the production…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 18, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1650 words)

Louis Walsh, X Factor judge: 'I act the eejit. That's my role'

'I like music even though I’m working on X Factor' … Louis Walsh. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Ach, Louis Walsh. You know the one – lisping Irishman on The X Factor, cries easily, tells…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 16, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2027 words)
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Bugarach: the French village destined to survive the Mayan apocalypse

Bugarach … AKA 'the doomsday destination'. Photograph: REUTERS Up in the foothills of the Pyrenees, in a tiny village nestled amid breathtaking landscapes and eagles in flight, a man in a woolly hat…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 19, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2206 words)
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