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Labour conference diary: Ainsworth listens to soldier's tale
Tuesday 29 September 2009
"As I sit here, my legs are aching," Stuart Trow said. "I've got a bullet in my buttock and that's not comfortable."
Al-Shymaa Kway-Geer: Death penalty is fitting punishment for cruellest of killers
Thursday 24 September 2009
This was the best judgment we could have hoped for. With this decision, a big lesson has been learnt and a message has been sent out that the people who are killing albinos should be afraid. Now they know the Tanzanian government is serious.
Hogwarts in East Africa: Why Kenya's prep schools are thriving
Thursday 10 September 2009
It's another gloriously sunny day, and dozens of young children at St Andrew's Preparatory School are setting off on their weekly run. Led by their fleet-footed teachers, the pack races several kilometres around the school's 300-acre plot before returning for prep and early supper.
Mark Steel: The Poles might be leaving but the prejudice remains
Wednesday 09 September 2009
There is an almost artistic level of irrationality about immigration panics
British gem expert hacked to death
Thursday 13 August 2009
A renowned British gem expert has been hacked to death with machetes by a gang of illegal miners who ambushed him in Kenya.
You probably won't have heard of them ... but they're the Tory future
Saturday 25 April 2009
Amol Rajan and Nigel Morris profile some of the leading young Conservative election candidates gathering at the party's spring conference in Cheltenham
Tricia Barnett: We must consider the people who live where we like to holiday
Tuesday 21 April 2009
Podium
Homophobic? Moi? Chris Moyles censured by Ofcom for mocking Will Young's sexuality
Tuesday 24 March 2009
Chris Moyles is famed not so much for failing the "cornflakes test" – the media benchmark by which bad-taste stories and remarks are tested for offence – as for spitting out the milk and smashing the breakfast bowl against the studio wall.
Dom Joly: Climb Kilimanjaro? Pah! I went up a volcano and skied down it
Monday 16 March 2009
Weird World of Sport: Nobody had ever attempted to ski down it and my life started to flash before me
Editor-At-Large: A little more love and 12 victims would have lived
Sunday 15 March 2009
In just two minutes, 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer killed nine former classmates and three teachers and injured seven people before fleeing the school he'd once attended.
Letters: The Northern Irish educational system
Saturday 14 March 2009
It's home, not school, that keeps Ulster divided
How do you get nine celebrities up Kilimanjaro? With difficulty
Friday 13 March 2009
Comic Relief challenge required mobile catering team and 500kg of recording kit
Hit & Run: Don't watch this space
Wednesday 11 March 2009
Is YouTube about to kill the video star? Doubtful. But the video streaming site has begun the process of removing all "premium" music videos from its UK pages after a spat with PRS for Music, the British songwriters' rights organisation. During negotiations over new licence fees for artists, during which PRS demanded a greater royalties share of Google's (which owns YouTube) ever-increasing revenue, both sides must have thought they were holding a gun to the other's head. But they've probably just shot themselves in the feet.
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What, let gays get married? We must be bonkers
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Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
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Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
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EDL marches on Newcastle as attacks on Muslims increase tenfold in the wake of Woolwich machete attack which killed Drummer Lee Rigby
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Farewell, Shameless. Your heirs have work to do
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