Jon Snow
Richard III: what it tells us about today's Britain
One senses that there’s a whiff of unease in royal circles about the wisdom of being involved with a happening that at times may seem, to some, close to bonkers.
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The great smog – who's at fault, Europe, China or us?
The great smog has hit England. Is it us, the Chinese or the Europeans who are to blame?
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How I got stoned on skunk
I had sucked in two huge gulps of the stuff before I started spluttering. I am not a smoker, and the skunk was being delivered in vapour form – two huge balloons of the stuff.
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Sartorial rebellion: the Greek cutting out ties
I cant think of a more depressing start to the day than to go to the wardrobe and pull out a dull maroon tie, with a few dots or stripes on it. Or worse, none at all.
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Registering to vote is easy – this is what you do
The Electoral Commission says 30 per cent of people aged 18-24 have not yet registered to vote. But registering only takes a few minutes – so here’s our simple guide.
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Will the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war ever be published?
Even John Chilcot can never have anticipated the years of toil, obfuscation and delay that would surround his efforts in trying to find the truth about the Iraq war.
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The language of war in political campaigning
“All-out war” on mediocre schools; apparent threats to “weaponise” the NHS and the “battle” to win voters. A distraction from the real wars that dog the planet?
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As Churchill's coffin passed, I cried and tried to hide my tears
On a cold January day in 1965, I joined the crowds in Oxford as Churchill’s funeral train passed. Though we never exchanged a word, we were drawn together in one signal act of gratitude.
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The Saudi king is dead, long live the Saudi king
Many thousands of Saudi men are in the field with Isis. But the Saudi royal family is so dominant that it is unclear who is linked to what when it comes to the export of extremism.
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No Chilcot report on Iraq: absolutely no surprise
No one knows how to delay an urgent inquiry into serious misjudgments, mistakes, and misdoings, than the British ‘system’.
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No tears for the passing of the Sun's page 3 anachronism
There’s no topless page 3 girl in today’s edition of the Sun newspaper – but in the age of the internet, didn’t the feature become obsolete many years ago?
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Fiddling whilst the Swissie churns
They spend their lives dealing, trading, monitoring and watching. Yet last week, when the Swiss Central Bank detached the Swissie from tracking the Euro, it turns out they knew nothing.
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Human rights: weapons exports, floggings and extremism
On Friday, as Jewish shoppers were being held or murdered in a Paris Supermarket, Raif Badawi, a Saudi blogger, was being lashed fifty times in a public flogging in Saudi Arabia.
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Charlie Hebdo shooting is a ferociously shocking moment
Even for a hardened news man in a hardened newsroom the mass shooting at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is a ferociously shocking moment.
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Time to end the special UK 'military relationship' with America?
For the first time in nearly a decade and a half we are not formally at war – but exactly how many “security” or “military” people we have left behind in Iraq and Afghanistan is an imprecise matter.
