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Is abstinence the best policy for addiction?
Posted on September 1, 2010
Noreen Oliver, the award-winning advocate of an abstinence-based approach to rehab, tells Mary O'Hara addicts need choice.
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Robert Fisk: Battlefield stereotypes that were fed to young minds
Posted on August 28, 2010
In the late 1950s, my father would drop by Reynolds paper shop in Maidstone High Street to buy pipe tobacco for himself and comics for me.
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Hope Bourne
Posted on August 27, 2010
Hope Bourne, who died on August 22 aged 91, was an author who celebrated life on Exmoor, where she lived for more than 60 years; her knowledge of this beautiful corner of England – of its flora and fauna and its traditional communities – was encyclopedic, and was gained by submission to a lifestyle which few in the 20th century would have dared even to contemplate.
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Superclass: A new breed of movers and shakers
Posted on August 25, 2010
A new breed has emerged; they set the global agenda, ride on Gulfstreams and manage the credit crunch in their spare time. They are anything but elected; they are entrepreneurs and entertainers, media moguls and former politicians - the self-made super rich who are using their money to lay down a new set of global rules. They have more in common with each other than with their countrymen, set apart by their ability to regularly influence the lives of millions of people around the globe. So where did this new global aristocracy come from and who is keeping them in check?
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    • What a pair of XXXX losers!
    Posted on August 24, 2010
    Australia's most outspoken expat Germaine Greer casts her withering gaze on politics Down Under. Australian election: Soap opera politics of Oz
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    Egyptians prepare for life after Mubarak
    Posted on August 24, 2010
    Their President of 29 years is very ill. But with no nominated successor, an uncertain future awaits, writes Robert Fisk in Cairo
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    Weekend Interviews
    Posted on August 22, 2010
    Steve Carell interview
  • This much I know: Don Letts         
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    • The baby boomers and the price of personal freedom
    Posted on August 22, 2010
    As the postwar baby boomer generation begins to enter comfortable retirement, their children face a future of massive debt and uncertainty
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    Wikileaks founder Julian Assange facing arrest over 'rape' claim
    Posted on August 21, 2010
    Swedish authorities issue an arrest warrant for the founder of whistleblowers' website on suspicion of rape and molestation. Supporters of Mr Assange believe he has been the victim of a smear campaign, and that the complaints may have been made in a bid to discredit him. The Wikileaks Twitter page dismissed the assault claims, which first appeared in Sweden's Expressen newspaper, as "dirty tricks".
  • Swedish press: The Local        
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    • Sex, lies, Downing Street and the cover-up that left the Krays free to kill
    Posted on August 21, 2010
    The Krays were deemed untouchable, and, with no one able or willing to rein them in, they ran amok. The key figure in this scandal was Bob Boothby, an outrageous old scoundrel but probably the most popular political celebrity of his day. He had a chequered career as a Tory MP for 34 years and was then ennobled to the House of Lords, despite his reputation for accepting money in return for political favours.
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    Robert Fisk: Even the little dog was not spared by Cromwell
    Posted on August 21, 2010
    To Saint Canice's, then, in the ancient city of Kilkenny, its ninth-century round tower still watching for Viking invaders, home of the forgotten Gaelic Irish-Old English Confederation, its citizens spared by Cromwell.
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    Timothy Winter: Britain's most influential Muslim - and it was all down to a peach
    Posted on August 20, 2010
    The theologian is considered more significant within Islam than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He tells Tom Peck why he converted
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    • Robert Fisk: US troops say goodbye to Iraq
    Posted on August 20, 2010
    When you invade someone else's country, there has to be a first soldier – just as there has to be a last.
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    Maria Sharapova returns to her roots in the wasteland of Chernobyl
    Posted on August 19, 2010
    You would think that Maria Sharapova's trek through the irradiated wilderness of eastern Belarus should end, definitively, her portrayal as the selfish little rich girl.
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    • Rise of the Mamils (middle-aged men in lycra)
    Posted on August 16, 2010
    Flashy sports cars are out, now no mid-life crisis is complete without a souped-up road bike. Why? Every weekend, across the nation's rolling countryside, watch out for the Mamils: middle-aged men in lycra. And ladies, if you have a man at home taking an unusual interest in how you shave your legs, you may have a Mamil in the making too.
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    Weekend Interviews
    Posted on August 15, 2010
    Karol Sirkova: Megrahi's doctor; 'I just provided an opinion. Someone else let him go free'
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    • 'Mandelson lost us the election. He was too busy blowing his own trumpet', says Brown loyalist Charlie Whelan
    Posted on August 14, 2010
    Whelan, the ultimate Labour die-hard, also reveals that Gordon Brown will never take a peerage; that his wife Sarah feels most betrayed by Mandelson (who sold his soul by rushing out his poisonous memoirs so soon after the election); and why the divisive Alastair Campbell should never be allowed to be involved in any future election campaign.
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    The NS Interview: Colin Blakemore
    Posted on August 13, 2010
    “It’s touch and go whether we humans will outlive the century” - Colin Blakemore, neuroscientist
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    Tony Judt, Chronicler of History, Is Dead at 62
    Posted on August 8, 2010
    Tony Judt, the author of “Postwar,” a monumental history of Europe after World War II, and a public intellectual known for his sharply polemical essays on American foreign policy, the state of Israel and the future of Europe, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 62.
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    Weekend Interviews
    Posted on August 8, 2010
    Gareth Thomas: How the truth has set me free
  • Sylvester Stallone interview           
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    Jimi Hendrix: 'You never told me he was that good'
    Posted on August 8, 2010
    On the the 40th anniversary of the great guitarist's death, Ed Vulliamy speaks to the people who knew him best and unearths a funny, if driven, superstar
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    • Iranian facing stoning speaks: 'It's because I'm a woman'
    Posted on August 7, 2010
    In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the woman whose sentence of death by stoning triggered an international outcry has accused the Iranian authorities of lying about the charges against her to pave the way to execute her in secret.
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    Robert Fisk: Butcher of Buchenwald in an Egyptian paradise
    Posted on August 7, 2010
    Not long ago, a Hizbollah fighter in Lebanon insisted to me that there was life after death. With my fascination for "life beyond the grave", I told him to prove it. "Mr Robert," he replied, "do you believe in justice?" Well, yes, I said, I did. "So do you think there is justice in this world?" Nope, I replied. "Well that proves it. If there's no justice in this world, there must be justice in the next – so there's another life!"
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    Blair must be arrested
    Posted on August 5, 2010
    John Pilger: Having helped destroy other nations far away, our former prime minister — "peace envoy" to the Middle East — is now free to profit from the useful contacts he made while working as a "servant of the people".
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    Robert Fisk: UN: Israel was on its own side before border clash
    Posted on August 5, 2010
    So was the tree inside Israel? The UN implies that the shrubbery that ultimately cost the lives of five men on Tuesday was on the Israeli side of the "Blue Line".
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