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2 weeks ago
Patrick Kingsley takes the MI5 online recruitment testDon't tell a soul that you're reading this. Make pretty damn sure that the good people at Her Majesty's Secret Service don't know that you know that I've undergone the first stages of MI5's application process. The recruitment test has been poste[...]
3 weeks ago
Companies hope quality will be key weapon against wave of 99p competition on ebook and app storesThe evolution of books into interactive, digital products is far from over, according to Henry Volans, head of digital publishing at Faber & Faber. Speaking at the Independent Publishers Guild's Digital [...]
9 weeks ago
Listening to PMQs is like being cooped up with a couple who detest each otherPrime Minister's Questions (5 Live) | iPlayerPrisoners' Women (R4) | iPlayerThe Alias Men (R4) | iPlayerThe 404 (podcast) | ListenNature (podcast) | ListenAnswer Me This! (podcast) | ListenLast Wednesday, the day of the pub[...]
11 weeks ago
Glitzy event has chosen Leeds in December for its Coronation after online votes decide between the regions' and nations' finalistsLeeds has got used to the notion of a close connection with coronations, what with our Kate Middleton's elevation to Royal status, but the next on our civic agenda has no[...]
14 weeks ago
Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, says Gambling Commission is looking at legality of controversial Channel 5 lotteryJeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, has told MPs he is "worried" about Richard Desmond's Health Lottery and has asked the gambling watchdog to intervene.Hunt told the Commons culture[...]
16 weeks ago
Appearing on 5 Live, the former Conservative MP refused to believe people in Britain have to choose between buying food or keeping warmEdwina Currie suggested it wasn't just her Strictly Come Dancing partner Vincent Simone she was out of step with when she appeared on 5 Live this weekend. On Stephen[...]
16 weeks ago
Topical, lively and touching, Victoria Derbyshire's 5 Live show is radio with a bit of bottleVictoria Derbyshire (5 Live) | iPlayerToday (R4) | iPlayerCurb Your Judaism (R4) | iPlayerSticking the knife into Woman's Hour last week left me feeling… wrong. Unsisterly. A bad feminist, liable to be str[...]
24 weeks ago
When people are rightly angry it's the duty of the courts to punish more severely – but not to do as the government tells themNational revulsion and popular demand for punishment are dangerous things. They licensed the rule-bending that miscarried justice in the 80s, for the Birmingham Six and Gui[...]
37 weeks ago
Justice secretary set to rethink plan to cut sentences after rejecting suggestion in radio interview that 'rape is rape'Kenneth Clarke, the justice secretary, is expected to announce a climbdown over his plan for sentence discounts of up to 50% for early guilty pleas after he provoked a row by appea[...]
39 weeks ago
Lady Justice Hallett has produced a series of recommendations under rule 43 of the Coroners Rules 1984Following are the main recommendations made by the coroner after she returned an unlawful killing verdict for the 52 victims of the London bombings in 2005.Emergency response
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46 weeks ago
MPs and the media hardly notice working-class communities. It's time the labour movement gave them back their voiceI met Mrs Parry a few months ago in the centre of Ashington, a 27,000-strong community about 17 miles north of Newcastle. Once the world's biggest mining village, thousands were thrown [...]
47 weeks ago
Rapper joins stars including Nelly Furtado, Beyoncé and Usher in expressing regret for performing for the Gaddafi family50 Cent has followed the example set last week by Nelly Furtado, Beyoncé, Mariah Carey and Usher, expressing regret for performing at a private concert for the family of Muammar [...]
48 weeks ago
New multimillion pound venture expected to be promoted by TV and print outlets owned by the media baronFor a man unveiling the consummation of his two life passions, media and philanthropy, Richard Desmond was remarkably reticent at Monday's unveiling of his latest multimillion pound venture, a heal[...]
49 weeks ago
New multimillion pound venture expected to be promoted by TV and print outlets owned by the media baronFor a man unveiling the consummation of his two life passions, media and philanthropy, Richard Desmond was remarkably reticent at Monday's unveiling of his latest multimillion pound venture, a heal[...]
68 weeks ago
What's happening in Chile now is not far removed from the UK miners' strike of 1984One hole, 33 aces. The Chilean miners' rescue is a Great Story. Quote of the saga – so far – goes to Chile's mining minister, Laurence Golborne. When asked a couple of days ago, by a reporter, "How are the mine[...]
72 weeks ago
No collusion between republican paramilitaries and MI5 found in 1997 killing – but prison failures made it easy to carry outThere is no evidence of collusion between republican paramilitaries and the security forces in the 1997 killing of the loyalist paramilitary leader Billy Wright, according to[...]
77 weeks ago
Matt Wells returns to the Media Talk presenter's chair, and this week he's joined in the studio by John Plunkett and Josh Halliday.We begin with the "bloodbath" at Channel 5. Richard Desmond has started implementing his cost-cutting plans by axing seven members of his board. Who's next? Maggie Brow[...]
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