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Date:
12-03-2010
Author:
Nigel Hopper
What right do we have to know the nature of the offences for which Jon Venables has been sent back to prison? Large sections of the tabloid press believe we have every right; Jack Straw thinks we don't.
Date:
12-02-2010
Author:
Nigel Hopper
Grown men crying on TV operate, it seems, like buses - you wait ages for one, and then three come along at once. In little more than a week we've had Peter Andre, Alistair Campbell and Gordon Brown all welling up during interviews...
Date:
18-12-2009
Author:
Mark Greene
In December 1999, Britons voted John Lennon's Imagine as the song of the millennium - reflecting, perhaps, our tentative hope that the 21st century might herald a better world. It hasn't...
Date:
04-12-2009
Author:
Helen Parry
In the old days, news spread by word of mouth. Thus, Jacob, when the land of Canaan was gripped by famine, heard that there was corn in Egypt. Reunited with Joseph, he and his family settled in Egypt. And the rest, as they say, is history...
Date:
11-09-2009
Author:
Antony Billington
A generation of people know where they were when John F Kennedy was assassinated. I missed that by (ahem) a few years, but I belong to those who will forever remember where they were when they heard the news of the hijacked planes being flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City...
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