Politics
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Keeping The Press Under Control
Press freedom is under threat – at least according to recent newspaper reports. What are they so worried about?
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January 21 2017
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The Society Photographer Who Married A Princess
The Earl of Snowdon 1930-2017.
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January 21 2017
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Exhibition Of The Week War In The Sunshine, The British In Italy 1917-18
For most of us, the story of the First World War is defined by the “mud, gas and trenches” of the Western Front, said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times.
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January 28 2017
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How Humanity Got Hooked on Sugar
It produces a burst of energy and a feeling of profound pleasure, followed by a life-long craving for more. It is cheap, widelyavailable – and children love it. Gary Taubes reports on how sugar became the world’s most popular drug
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February 04 2017
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Exhibition Of The Week The American Dream
Printmaking has long been seen as the “poor relation of art history”, said Alastair Sooke in The Daily Telegraph.
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March 18 2017
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Khalid Masood: The Making Of A Killer
Last Tuesday, Khalid Masood checked into the £59-a-night Preston Park Hotel in Brighton.
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April 01, 2017
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Europe's Faustian Bargain
A year ago, the EU and Turkey made a controversial deal to stem the flow of refugees into Europe. How has it panned out?
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April 01, 2017
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Carswell's Defection: Has UKIP Had It?
“Douglas Carswell was once the golden boy of UKIP,” said Tim Stanley in The Sunday Telegraph: “its first elected MP, its brightest intellect, its shot at respectability.”
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April 01, 2017
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The North Korea problem
Donald Trump warned this week that he was ready to tackle the nuclear threat from North Korea with or without help from China.
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April 8, 2017
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Europe's Last Colony
Spain has long been determined to regain sovereignty over “the Rock” at its southern tip, but Gibraltar remains stubbornly British.
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April 15 2017
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Rock ‘n' Roll Superstar Who Caught the Teen Spirit
Chuck Berry didn’t invent rock ’n’ roll – no one person could claim credit for that.
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March 25 2017
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The Ruthless Ira Commander Who Helped Broker Peace
On 27 August 1979, the Provisional IRA murdered Lord Mountbatten while he was on a family holiday in Sligo, said Henry McDonald in The Guardian.
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March 25 2017
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How Toys Took Over Hollywood
Many of today’s blockbusters make as much profit from selling toys as they do from selling tickets. Robbie Collin investigates
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March 25 2017
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the big investment questions for 2017
markets shrugged off political ructions to thrive in 2016. will investors be so fortunate again?
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january 07 2017
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His Only Crime Was Coming Home
As Western-backed forces push Islamic State out of Mosul, its militants are laying minefields in their wake – aimed not at soldiers but at ordinary people who have come back to rebuild their lives. Colin Freeman went on a tour of Iraq’s new killing fields
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March 11 2017
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The Modest Dutch Designer Who Made Millions From Miffy
Dick Bruna, who has died aged 89, created one of the most instantly recognisable characters in children’s literature, said The New York Times: the sparsely drawn white rabbit known in English as Miffy.
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March 11 2017
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Trump's conflict of interest: how will he deal with it?
Donald Trump ran, and won, on a promise to “drain the swamp” of Washington corruption, said Eugene Robinson in The Washington Post. But so far, he seems intent on deepening it. The president-elect owns or has stakes in around 500 companies, at least 111 of which do business overseas. This creates a massive and unprecedented conflict of interest. One of Trump’s biggest lenders, for example, is Germany’s Deutsche Bank, currently negotiating a multibillion-dollar settlement with the Justice Department over abuses that contributed to the 2008 market crash.
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December 03 2016
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What the scientists are saying...
What the scientists are saying...
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December 17 2016
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Cricket: Kohli hammers England
The end was “swift” and brutal, said Vic Marks in The Guardian. On the final morning of the fourth Test, in Mumbai, India needed less than half an hour to take England’s last four wickets. They thrashed the visitors by an innings and 36 runs to seal a 3-0 series victory, with the fifth Test still to be played.
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December 17 2016
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the brain hackers
california’s tech entrepreneurs have moved on from designing apps and driverless cars, and turned their attention to the human brain. but can they really create a faster, cleverer generation of workers? richard godwin sampled their wares
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january 07 2017
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#DeleteUber
The campaign against Uber for “collaborating” with President Trump highlights the battle lines being drawn up in corporate America
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February 04 2017
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Health & Science
What the scientists are saying...
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April 01, 2017
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People
People
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April 01, 2017
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People
A fitting challenge Captains of University Challenge teams don’t often break through into the popular consciousness, says Harry Wallop in The Times.
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April 8, 2017
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The nuclear menace of North Korea
Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s supreme leader, is building a nuclear missile that could reach the US. Can he be stopped?
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April 8, 2017
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Angry protesters target Russia's prime minister
With last week’s mass protests, Russia “has awakened from a deep sleep”, said Christian Esch in Der Spiegel (Hamburg).
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April 8, 2017
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Tennis: Konta hits new heights
“She came, she saw, she Konta-ed,” said Simon Briggs in The Daily Telegraph.
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April 8, 2017
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Trump's Warning Shot To Assad
Foreign ministers of the G7 group of nations met in Tuscany this week to discuss how to put pressure on Russia to drop its support for Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, in the wake of his regime’s apparent use of an illegal nerve gas during an attack on a town in rebel-held Idlib province.
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April 15 2017
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Spy, Explorer, Cheerful Failure - The Man Who Inspired James Bond
Peter Fleming undertook an epic but fruitless mission up the Amazon, and then wrote a bestselling book about it. He also inspired his brother, Ian, to create the most famous fictional spy of all time. Ben Macintyre considers a very British hero.
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April 15 2017
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Controversy Of The Week: Labour's Anti-Semitism
“Labour has developed a unique skill under Jeremy Corbyn,” said Stephen Pollard in The Daily Telegraph.
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