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Half of UK population thinks eurozone should sort out own mess
More than half of the UK population (53 per cent) believe that Britain should not give any more cash to eurozone countries, according to a new survey.
The YouGov research commissioned by campaign group, Vote UK out of EU, found that half the public also support a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU.
Of those polled, 44 per cent said they would vote to leave the EU entirely if there was a referendum.
We still need feminism
2012 is supposed to be the year that we all come to terms with feminism: with the fact that we still need it and that it's nothing for either men or women to be scared of.
So how did we kick things off? With a naked lady, of course. Actor Lara Pulver was the subject of numerous complaints after she appeared naked and carefully draped before the watershed as Irene Adler in the New Year's Day episode of BBC drama series Sherlock. Since the brouhaha over her bralessness, she said this week in an interview that she felt the stunt was "empowering".
Blair, Brown, Major. In 100 years they will be long forgotten. But the world will still be in awe of the grocer's daughter from Grantham
Blair, Brown, Major. In 100 years they will be long forgotten. But the world will still be in awe of the grocer's daughter from Grantham
More than 30 years after she walked into Downing Street as Britain’s first woman premier, Margaret Thatcher still dominates British politics.
And with the film The Iron Lady on general release and Meryl Streep tipped to win an Oscar for her uncanny impersonation, even those too young to remember Mrs Thatcher now have a chance to discover what the fuss was about.
David Cameron Urges Britons To Stand Up And Defend Christian Values
David Cameron has urged Britons to "not be afraid to say" they live in a Christian country.
In a speech to celebrate the 400th birthday of the King James Bible, he said the New Testament had helped give our country "a set of values and morals which make Britain what it is today."
The prime minister said we should "actively stand up and defend" these Christian values.
"The Bible has helped to shape the values which define our country," he said.
Why the euro liars must stop deceiving us - and themselves
The leaders of France and Germany — those big bosses of Europe — announced yesterday that they are committed to redraw the continental treaty, what Chancellor Angela Merkel has called ‘a new phase in European integration’, as they fight to keep the euro as a stable currency.
It remains almost beyond belief that Mrs Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy should solemnly announce their assent to what is, in effect, a pact to agree that the Earth is flat.
Germany is the ultimate victim of European Monetary Union
Enough is enough. Please stop defaming Germany out there in the blogosphere.
The Germans are not engaged in a mercantilist conspiracy to subjugate and milk southern Europe. They are not conducting “warfare by other means”, or heaven forbid, trying to establish a Fourth Reich.
I could have saved a life today
I could have saved a life today
but chose to look the other way.
It wasn’t that I didn’t care.
I had the time, and I was there
but I didn’t want to seem a fool
and argue over safety rules.
I knew he’d done the job before.
if I called it wrong, he might get sore.
The chances didn’t seem that bad.
(I’ve done the same. He knew I had.)
We've lost the art of chivalry, says Downton's Lady Mary
It was an era in which females had few rights and an advantageous marriage was the only measure of success.
But women in the Downton Abbey days had it better in one respect: they lived in an age of chivalry, according to Michelle Dockery, the actress who plays Lady Mary.
Dockery said that 21st century equality of the sexes had led to the demise of old-fashioned manners. She suggested that modern men should watch the period drama and pick up tips on how to treat a lady.
Yes, honour the heroes. But also honour the terrified - and those who loathed every ghastly minute
By Max Hastings
Who do you remember on Remembrance Sunday? Most of us, I think, will tomorrow focus our thoughts on some personal association, however remote: perhaps a great-grandfather who died on the Somme; an uncle who landed on D-Day; maybe even a father or brother who served in the Falklands, Iraq, or Afghanistan — the wars of our own times.
Daily Mail's Simon Heffer: Germany's economic colonisation of Europe
The elaborate pretence that the European Union and its stricken currency will shortly be saved after some little local difficulties is now becoming ever more desperate.
The coup d’etat in Athens over the weekend, which saw the demise of the sitting government, is unlikely to be the last violation of democracy in the name of European unity.
No sooner was Greece whipped into submission — though for how long and how successfully we shall see — than Italy was placed firmly in the line of fire.