Sunday, September 30, 2012
Bo Guagua speaks up for disgraced father Bo Xilai
"Princeling" defends former leader accused of responsibility for wife's murder of Briton, taking bribes and abusing powerBo Guagua, the high profile son of toppled politician Bo Xilai and his wife Gu Kailai, has defended his "upright" and dutiful father in his first statement on the scandal.His?
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British woman reportedly kidnapped in Amazon reserve
Tourist thought to have been taken alongside Australian woman in nature reserve near Ecuador's Colombian borderA British woman is believed to have been kidnapped in Ecuador while visiting a remote nature reserve in the Amazon jungle.The tourist was abducted along with an Australian woman on?
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Rise in 'slavery' trafficking of homeless by gangs
Charities report at least 37 incidents so far this year of people forced to work for no payReported cases of "modern-day slavery" are becoming increasingly common, according to the police and homeless charities.Thames Reach, which works with homeless people in London, said that so far this year,?
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Labour's wretched silence on child poverty | Kevin McKenna
To the detriment of the poor, Johann Lamont seems to be aping the worst of the Iron Lady'Pennies don't fall from heaven," Margaret Thatcher once told us. "They have to be earned here on Earth." No one would have remembered the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions, she averred. "He had?
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Britons wary of using the web to criticise doctors
We go online to review restaurants and films ... but not the NHS, says surveyBritain is increasingly a "feedback nation", where people go online to rate the smartphone they have just bought, film they have seen or restaurant they have eaten in. But a new survey shows that most people are still?
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Is this the death knell for the Lib Dems? | Nick Cohen
At a time when the country needs them, the party seems intent on self-destructionAnyone thinking of buying the current leftwing line that the Liberal Democrats are a party of the right should have been at their conference. Concern for the poor and greenery dominated the fringe. The activists were?
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Country pubs shine in the latest Michelin guide
Dozens of pubs outside London earn coveted awards as Britons seek good food at fair pricesThe leaking of the latest Michelin restaurant guide saw initial focus on the eight chic restaurants in London, including Hedone and Dabbous, which have grabbed their first star. But a largely overlooked theme?
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Republican versus royalists: a very civil war
Despite the jubilee, anti-monarchists say their support is rising. Conal Urquhart joins their leader as he tries to rouse a revolution in the west countryOn Tuesday, it was the spiritualists, Wednesday the Liberal Democrats and on Thursday it was the turn of the republicans to use the Friends?
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For the record
"Will Amazon's Victorian venture be a serial thriller?" (Books, New Review, 16 September, page 39) said that the first six Kindle serials have been produced by digital publisher Plympton, and referred to Shop Til You Drop? Dead. Plympton has in fact produced the first three of a total of eight?
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Give every MP a secret identity | Victoria Coren
No human being could ever be as flawless as we want our public figures to be. They need alter egosFor years now, people have played the dull pub game What's Your Porn Name?In case you've managed to avoid gatherings where it's been discussed (which is a long shot, but perhaps your friends are hard,?
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Cardiff After Dark by Maciej Dakowicz
The Polish-born photographer's epic study of Cardiff nightlife is a hymn to camaraderie and pleasure-seeking"Photography is nothing," the great photojournalist Henri Cartier-Bresson once said. "It's life that interests me." This quote came back to me on first seeing Maciej Dakowicz's images from?
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Labour MP Malcolm Wicks dies aged 65
Ed Miliband leads tributes to 'brilliant' former energy ministerEd Miliband has led tributes to Malcolm Wicks, the former Labour energy minister, who has died aged 65 after a battle with cancer.The Labour leader praised Wicks, the MP for Croydon North, as a "thoroughly decent, intelligent and?
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