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Paul Richards Articles

Imagine no chicken tikka masala

Last Sunday I attended the Bangladesh Caterers’ Association awards. The UK ‘Indian’ restaurant and take-away trade (the quote marks are there to remind you that most ‘Indian’ restaurants are owned and run by Bangladeshis) is worth up to £3.6 billion. It employs 80,000...
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Bullies who never grew up

Is there anything in the world uglier than the government frontbench when it’s attempting to take down an opponent? That’s a question I shall return to later. The Guardian rightly highlighted, on its Thursday front page, the trio of Cameron, Osborne and Alexander...
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Seven habits of ineffectual governance

There’s a stench of death around this coalition government. In many ways, the deadly bacillus was incubated from the start, from the moment the rose garden love-in took place in June 2010. The presence of the Liberal Democrats gave life to this Tory-led government,...
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From Westminster to Eastminster?

If you’ve ever done the tour of the Houses of Parliament, it is impossible to come away without a strong sense of history, pomp and pageantry. You get the same feeling looking round the state rooms at Buckingham Palace, St George’s Chapel, Windsor or the Foreign and...
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