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Review of Glee ‘Sweet Dreams’
The episode begins with Finn (Cory Monteith) at college, partying and accidentally participating in ...
Doctor Who ‘The Name of the Doctor’ – Series 7, episode 13
What a wonderful way to end this momentous series in the 50th year of Doctor Who. From the start of ...
Friday Book Design Blog: Blurb special
Let's talk book blurbs, those quotes you get, usually from other writers, that are meant to entice y...
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Notes from a small island: Is Sealand an independent 'micronation' or an illegal fortress?
- 3 British business: We need to stay in the EU - or risk losing up to £92bn a year
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You thought Ryanair's attendants had it bad? Wait 'til you hear about their pilots
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It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more
Get your summer started with British Military Fitness
BMF is the UK’s biggest and best loved outdoor fitness classes
Visit York
Find out what The Independent's resident travel expert has to say about one of the most beautiful small cities in the world
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Business videos from commercial thought leaders
Watch the best in the business world give their insights into the world of business.
Masculinity in crisis?
'There is a battle going on inside us that is never discussed'
Have US shock jocks gone too far?
An incendiary remark from Rush Limbaugh may be the beginning of the end for outspoken right-wing US broadcasters
The ‘Beverly Hills’ of Surrey
Elmbridge pays more income tax than big cities of the North
Heavenly Bodies
Michael Landy's artistic marriage made in heaven... and hell
'He will always be a friend'
Jackie Stewart backs Roman Polanski
The price of pacifism
From the Second World War refusenik to the 19-year-old Israeli, Holly Williams talks to five people who risked shame and suffering to take a stand as conscientious objector.
Jason Isaacs: Groupies, theatre bores and James Bond
To millions, Jason Isaacs is one of Harry Potter's arch enemies – but his wife prefers him as a Scottish TV detective.
Sealand: 'Micronation' or illegal fortress?
Thomas Hodgkinson spent a week at the tiny platform off the Suffolk coast to find out.
Mark Hix cooks with cutlets and ribs
If you ignore cutlets and ribs, you'll risk missing out on some delicious and easy meals, says our chef.
The experts' guide to summer
From getting fit for the beach to recreating that Olympic buzz
Legend of James Hunt has set Hollywood hearts racing
Early glimpses of Ron Howard's film Rush suggest it will portray Hunt as a high-living lothario, with an insatiable appetite for partying.
Macklemore: 'I don't have moderation'
The next Vanilla Ice or the next Eminem? Macklemore doesn't have a record contract – but he does have the UK's biggest-selling single of the year.
Don't be shy: Bill Granger's Sri Lankan recipes
Sri Lankan cuisine is light, sunny, wonderfully spiced – and so easy to cook from scratch. Just as soon as you've broken into the coconut, that is.
Sir James Dyson’s latest project: Cleaning up hospitals
Doctors are hailing the revamp of a Bath neonatal unit, where babies sleep more and feed better, as the model for patient care
One man returns to Argentina's town that drowned
Epecuen was submerged under 10 metres of water in 1985. Now the floods have gone – and 83-year-old Pablo Novak has moved back in
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