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Rod Liddle All these green taxes and rules are just witless nods to fashion

Rod Liddle

The measures on ‘gas-guzzling’ cars, policing of wheelie bins and surcharges on plastic bags are based on scientific fads and, often, the government’s greed for taxpayers’ money, says Rod Liddle. The Third World won’t pay the price, and nor will big business — but we will

Deceit and dilemma

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All these green taxes and rules are just witless nods to fashion

The measures on ‘gas-guzzling’ cars, policing of wheelie bins and surcharges on plastic bags are based on scientific fads and, often, the government’s greed for taxpayers’ money, says Rod Liddle. The Third World won’t pay the price, and nor will big business — but we will

Rod Liddle

Russia’s ignorant still hate Solzhenitsyn

Owen Matthews says that the great literary prophet has been attacked on the internet by Russians who associate him with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The truth still hurts

Owen Matthews

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Arts

Edinburgh’s cultural jamboree

Lloyd Evans

Lloyd Evans on the esotericism of the Festival and the ragamuffin risk-taking of the Fringe

Books

A master at work

Sam Leith

Lush Life (by Richard Price)

Politics

Relax, comrades: David Miliband is Blairesque, rather than Blairite

Matthew d'Ancona

Matthew d'Ancona reviews the week in politics

Style & Travel

Under the volcano

Oscar Humphries

Oscar Humphries explores Naples and the Amalfi coast

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