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'Your country needs you': The myth of the most iconic World War I emblem
Saturday 03 August 2013
The picture of Lord Kitchener has long been regarded as the poster that encouraged young men to join the army, but this may just be a popular myth
Album: The Civil Wars, The Civil Wars (Columbia)
Saturday 03 August 2013
The story so far: man meets woman and the pair soon discover that their singing voices have more chemistry than a science lab.
Review: A Marker To Measure Drift, By Alexander Maksik
Saturday 03 August 2013
Adrift bearing memories of a faraway war
Review: The Illusion of Separateness, By Simon van Booy
Saturday 03 August 2013
Beauty lies buried under brutal history
Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso refuses to resign over Nazi remark
Friday 02 August 2013
Deputy prime minister drew outrage for saying Japan should learn from how the Nazi party stealthily changed Germany's inter-war constitution
Like Al Capone, tax proves the downfall for Silvio Berlusconi, the 'man who never dies'
Friday 02 August 2013
His vanity and his delusions of being an international statesman have taken a knock from which they’ll never recover
Syrian conflict: Only reversals on the battlefield will bring opposition to negotiating table
Thursday 01 August 2013
While President Assad, buoyed by a recent win in Homs, has praised his soldier's bravery in the face of 'the fiercest barbaric war in modern history'
Fewer resources, greater stress, more disasters: Climate change linked to violence among people and societies
Thursday 01 August 2013
Review of 61 accounts concludes that personal disputes and wider civil conflicts increase significantly with weather changes
Bangladesh’s main Islamic party barred from politics
Thursday 01 August 2013
Six leaders have been convicted of crimes in connection with the war of independence
Japanese minister Taro Aso refuses to stand down over praise for Nazi militarisation tactics
Thursday 01 August 2013
Aso said Japan could learn from the way the Nazi party stealthily changed Germany's constitution without anyone realising
Revealed: Queen's last words to Britain in case of nuclear conflict
Thursday 01 August 2013
It would have been the Queen’s Speech to end them all. At midday on Friday 4 March 1983, the monarch was due to address the nation to announce that Britain was at war and – due to the “deadly power of abused technology” – a nuclear conflict was at hand.
Family of military policeman killed in Iraq sues Ministry of Defence for negligence
Wednesday 31 July 2013
The Ministry of Defence is being sued for negligence in a landmark case by the family of a military policeman who was killed in one of the most notorious episodes of the Iraq war.
TV review - Churchill's First World War, BBC4;
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Kumbh Mela: the Greatest Show on Earth, BBC2
Squadron Leader Peter Tunstall, the cooler king of Colditz who failed to get the recognition he deserved
Tuesday 30 July 2013
His death has raised questions about why he was never honoured
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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