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Thursday, 24 May 2012
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News RSS Feed - click to grab the feedObituaries
- John Forrest: Actor, painter and magician who worked with David Lean and Lord Olivier
- Archibald Mackenzie: Diplomat whose work helped establish the United Nations
- Eugene Polley: Inventor of the TV remote control
- John Birch: Celebrated organist and master of choristers
- Barry Askew: Newspaper editor who upset the Queen
- Doug Dillard: Musician in the vanguard of the rise of country rock
Voices
Voices RSS Feed - click to grab the feedEditorials
- Leading article: The Prime Minister has questions to answer, too
- Leading article: Scottish voters must hear the best case for both sides
- Leading article: We need to look beyond the fuss about Beecroft
- Leading article: Look behind Azerbaijan's glitzy façade
- Leading article: The watchdog needs more teeth
- Leading article: A shameful tax avoidance culture
- Leading article: At last, a politician fluent in European
- Leading article: MPs must move with the times on gay marriage
- Leading article: Time for a critical look at so-called bargains
Commentators
- Chris Blackhurst: Grammar schools educated people to lead the world. They can do so again
- Owen Jones: If socialists really did run the show, working people would benefit
- Should brothels be legalised?
- Victoria Summerley: Elitist and poisonous – welcome to the world of the herbaceous Borgias
- Laurie Penny: It's not good enough just to want to be in power
- Laurie Penny: Why do so many men harass women on the streets?
- James Bloodworth: Despite its popularity, the death penalty would allow the state to kill innocent people
- Richard Sudan: Political corruption reflects the widening chasm between the political class and the electorate
- Simon Kelner: We're simply not made for this bothersome weather
- Lisa Markwell: Why my calcium conundrum has put me on a diet
- Josh Barrie: Crimbos? We could be heading for EastEnders gone mad
- Dr Ben Daniels: Taking away benefits from heroin users won’t solve anything
- Simon Kelner: You are cordially invited to sit very still and behave
- Amol Rajan: Help us to run up some funds for two great causes
- Nabila Ramdani: Cairo's women have their say – but they have lost all their faith in the revolution
- Joanna Blythman: GM crop trials are needless and reckless
- Ben Chu: The only hope is to face facts about bank debt
- Natalie Haynes: There is a method in our Eurovision madness – and it's working
- Lisa Markwell: I don't want to bother my GP, or go near Dr Google. So health scares suit me
- Simon Usborne: The Mayor has fuelled a deadly culture of conflict
- Catherine MacLeod: A good 'spad' is trusted by the minister – and speaks for him
- Leveson Sketch: The QC damned – with great praise
- Deborah Ross: In tough times, you may need to fire your kids
- Jeremy Laurance: This may not be political cynicism, but it looks bad
- Simon English: Who thought it was a good idea for private equity to run such businesses?
Sport
Sport RSS Feed - click to grab the feedCricket
- Defiant seventh-wicket stand duo hold up England charge
- KP's Twitter storm refuses to blow out
- Strauss: 'I still love captaincy, it gets me out of bed in the morning'
- Ian Bell: Forget good-looking shots, I want to be known as a tough operator
- Sammy forced to defend his place in tourists' team
- Kevin Pietersen fined over Twitter comments about Sky television commentator Nick Knight
- West Indies' unbeaten record at Trent Bridge under threat
- County Championship round-up: Compton misses chance to emulate Hick
- Kenya player in fixing inquiry
- County Championship round-up: Durham held up as Compton heads towards 1,000 runs
Tennis
- Andy Murray to play Japan's Tatsuma Ito in opening round of French Open
- Heather Watson reaches main draw for French Open
- I'm short of match practice for French Open, admits Andy Murray
- Boris Becker suggests Andy Murray pull out of French Open amid fitness concerns
- French repeat not so elementary for Watson
- 1 Freedom fighters? Cannibals? The truth about Syria’s rebels
- 2 Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
- 3 Special Report: US troops are stationed in Japan to protect the nation. But to sex workers in Okinawa, they bring fear, not security
- 4 Vice pulls 'breathtakingly tasteless' fashion shoot glorifying the suicides of famous female authors from Sylvia Plath to Virginia Woolf
- 5 Iran to send 4,000 troops to aid President Assad forces in Syria
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