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The commentators                    14-07-15

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...on Greece

The leaders of the eurozone nations have cut a deal that makes believers in Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty seem like realists. They have agreed not to reduce Greece’s unsustainable debt and not to admit that Athens will never implement the financial reforms its joke prime minister has agreed. They will start negotiating a £60billion loan package that offers no prospect of reviving the shattered Greek economy. Greece’s people will remain embittered pensioners on German charity.
- Max Hastings, Daily Mail

Alexis Tsipras would have sold his granny to stay in the EU and keep getting multi-billion euro handouts that will never be repaid. The country is a failed state, corrupt, bankrupt, beggarly, shameless. It expects others, even the poorest EU members, to pay its overblown pensions, its army of idle public servants and subsidise its greedy tax evaders.
- Peter Hill, Daily Express

By infantilising Greece, Germany resembles a child who closes its own eyes and thinks we can not see it. We can. The world is watching what is being done to Greece in the name of euro stability. It sees a nation stripped of its dignity, its sovereignty, its future.
- Suzanne Moore, The Guardian

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Although the German plan for a “time out” from the euro did not make the final draft, the genie is now out of the bottle. The euro is no longer a single currency; it is a fixed exchange rate system. Brussels has admitted that an exit is no longer inconceivable. This may sound like a nice distinction, but it is crucial. The euro will probably survive this week in its current membership. It may even make it through the month and into 2016. But the next time there is a doubt about any of its members — Greece, Portugal, Italy or Spain — speculators will have an open invitation to attack, just as they attacked the Exchange Rate Mechanism in the early 1990s.
- Ed Conway, The Times

If anybody has capitulated, it is Germany. The German government has just agreed, in principle, to another multibillion-euro bailout of Greece — the third so far. In return, it has received promises of economic reform from a Greek government that makes it clear that it profoundly disagrees with everything that it has just agreed to. The Syriza government will clearly do all it can to thwart the deal it has just signed. If that is a German victory, I would hate to see a defeat.
- Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

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It sounds cynical, but five dead Britons are not enough to drive the puffs from their home at the top of the front page. Especially on a Saturday morning, when the promos are deeper and occupy extra columns in the body of the page. Ten might have been;  "at least fifteen"  certainly would.
This is why the Star shines today. Hallelujah! News has reclaimed page one. And not only page one, but pages two, three, four and five. 
How to cover a massacre: a lesson from the Daily Star

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Comment Awards 2015

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Anyone can nominate their favourite writer

Friday 12 June, 2015 Are the comment pages and columnists too Londoncentric? And if they are, what is the solution when the financial and political powerhouses are based in the capital? 
Does the character or personality of the writer matter? Should we read columnists with whom we violently disagree  or is it, as Eleanor Mills suggested, good for the soul but bad for the blood pressure? 
Why did the so-called political experts get it so wrong in calling the general election? And will they - and Rupert Murdoch - influence the result of the EU referendum?
All these points and more were addressed under the guidance of Dr Anthony Seldon at the launch of the 2015 Comment Awards last night. Seldon will chair the judging panel for the awards, now in their seventh year.
Nominations are now open and anyone can put forward anyone writing in the UK media - broadcasting, print or online  - by submitting the URLS of three articles published between August 1, 2014 and July 31 this year, which is the closing date for entries.
The 17 awards include four new categories:  Comment piece of the year for a single piece of excellent writing; Young commentariat; Society and diversity commentator; and Technology and digital commentator.
There is no charge for entries. Details and the nomination forms can be found here.
Oh yes, and who was the most frequently mentioned columnist at last night's event? Matthew Parris? Andrew Rawnsley? Stephen Glover? No. By a country mile, the most discussed writer was Katie Hopkins. 

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Comment archive, 2015

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April 10 General election
April 9 General election
April 8 General election
April 7 General election

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March 27 Prince Charles's letters
March 26 UK politics
March 25 Cameron's exit strategy
March 24 Lee Kwan Yew
March 23 UK politics

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March 13 UK politics
March 12 Jeremy Clarkson
March 11 UK politics
March 10 UK politics
March 9 UK politics

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February 27 UK politics
February 26 Minor party leaders
February 25 Natalie Bennett
February 24 Rifkind and Straw
February 23 World affairs

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February 13 UK politics
February 12 UK politics
February 11 UK politics
February 10 UK politics
February 9 Politics

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January 30 Rape law
January 29 UK politics
January 28 UK politics
January 27 Greece
January 26 UK politics

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January 16 World politics
January 15 Election debates
January 14 Charlie Hebdo
January 13 Charlie Hebdo
January 12 Charlie Hebdo

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April 2 General election
April 1 General election
March 31 General election
March 30 Depression 

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March 20 UK politics
March 19 The Budget
March 18 UK politics
March 17 Race in Britain
March 16 UK politics

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March 6 Scotland and the election
March 5 Isis
March 4 UK politics
March 3 Radicalisation
March 2 Russia

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February 20 UK politics
February 19 Chelsea and racism
February 18  UK politics
February 17 UK politics
February 16 Copenhagen 

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February 6 UK politics
February 5 Isis atrocity
February 4 UK politics
February 3 UK politics
February 2 UK politics

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January 23 UK politics
January 22 Chilcot inquiry
January 21 Page Three
January 20 Anti-semitism 
January 19 Religion and freedom

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January 9 Charlie Hebdo
January 8 Charlie Hebdo
January 7 UK politics
January 6 UK politics
January 5 UK politics

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July 13
Greece

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July 10
Budget
July 9
Budget
July 8
The Budget
July 7
Greece
July 6
Taxation

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July 3
Grexit
July 2
Heathrow
July 1
Grexit
June 30
Grexit
June 29
Tunisian massacre

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June 26
Monarchy and Brexit
June 25
UK politics
June 24
UK politics
June 23
Greece
June 22
Greece

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June 19
Greece and Europe
June 18
UK politics
June 17
Politics
June 16
Social mobility
June 15
Politics

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June 12
Politics
June 11
Politics
June 10
Politics
June 9
Europe
June 8
Politics

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June 5
Fifa
June 4
Politics
June 3
Charles Kennedy
June 2
British politics
June 1
Fifa

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May 29
Fifa
May 28
The Queen's Speech
May 27
Europe
May 26
UK politics

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May 22
UK politics
May 21
UK politics
May 20
The Labour party
May 19
The NHS
May 18
UK politics

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May 15
Ukip and Labour
May 14
The Labour party
May 13
The Labour party
May 12
UK politics
May 11
Scotland

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May 8
General election
May 7
General election
May 6
General election
May 5
General election

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May 1
General election
April 30
General election
April 29
General election
April 28
General election
April 27
General election

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April 24
General election
April 23
General election
April 22
General election
April 21
Drowned refugees
April 20 
Scottish National Party

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April 17
General election
April 16
General election
April 15
General election
April 14
General election
April 13
General election

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