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Letter: May Day call for the release of Dr Beltrán
As we enjoy the extended bank holiday weekend, many of us may not be aware of the significant struggles of working people that led to the May Day bank holiday being labelled as Labour Day or...
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Letter: Skylon prank at the Festival of Britain
Brian Stanley's letter (I held a torch for the Festival of Britain, 27 April), prompted me to write about the climbing of the Skylon. Five London University students planned to climb it prior to the...
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Letters: Trump cards
Thank you for your editorial on Ambedkar (Unthinkable? An Ambedkar memorial, 30 April). The timing is very interesting. This week I received confirmation of a lecture on Ambedkar's contribution to...
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Letters: Communities fight supermarket sweep
Thanks for highlighting the important role corner shops play in social cohesion (With this level of impotence, the Tesco riot is no surprise, 28 April). That is just the point we have been trying to...
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Letter: Murderous myths
Glenn Patterson (Comment, 27 April) describes the murderous and undemocratic myths behind what could be called the recurring IRA violence, and there are similar traditions at play in unionist...
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Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
Aside from the odd globe of golden yellow thrown out by flowering marsh marigolds, Ducan's Marsh is dominated by the copper colour of the dead rushes. It still seems a rather dormant landscape, but as...
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Weatherwatch: Sinking of Titanic was the spur for more lifeboats
It is less than 100 years since it was first thought necessary to provide lifeboats for everyone on board passenger ships. Yet hundreds of people had died each year in disasters around British coasts,...
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Starwatch: The May night sky
Our May chart shows Bootes with the conspicuous star Arcturus (star 10) high in the S as the Summer Triangle of Vega, Deneb and Altair climbs in the E and Leo descends in the W. The two brightest...
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Women in politics: Progressive decline | Editorial
What seemed signed and sealed 10 years ago now appears to be a chimera that fractured a progressive coalitionThis week could and should have marked a transformation in the politics of the United...
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North Sea taxes: The fight turns nasty | Editorial
Sudden lurches in tax policy just make life harder for businesses and deprive measures of vital oversight and consultationSix weeks ago, George Osborne picked a fight with gas companies. Yesterday, it...
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In praise of … the Irish Writers' Centre | Editorial
Among the locations the Queen will visit during her tour of the Irish Republic will be the Dublin's Garden of RemembranceAmong the various locations the Queen will visit during her historic tour of the...
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Warren Buffet shrugs off 'brush with scandal'
Investment guru has tried to brush off the share trading scandal that marred Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder rallyInvestment guru Warren Buffett has tried to brush off the share trading scandal...
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Boxing pays tribute to gentleman Henry Cooper
Heavyweight champion, who has died aged 76, endeared himself to the public with an affable style and became the first boxer to be knightedSir Henry Cooper, the British boxer who once knocked Muhammad...
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May Day protests take place globally
Demonstrators in France, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Germany and Iraq were among those protesting on a range of issuesHundreds of thousands of people in countries across the world have taken part in global...
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Osama bin Laden obituary
The criminal mastermind behind al-Qaida and the world's most sought-after terrorist since the attacks of 11 September 2001To his enemies, whatever colour or creed, he was a religious fanatic, a...
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Open door: the Guantánamo files
The readers' editor on… WikiLeaks and the release of sensitive informationThe story of WikiLeaks and the publication of thousands of confidential US military and diplomatic files leaked to that...
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Our freedom is now closer | Azzam Tamimi
The popular revolutions across the Arab world have given Palestinians a new sense of hopeWhen, at the start of this year, Palestinians around the world marked the anniversary of the 2008-09 Israeli war...
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Osama bin Laden's death: What now for al-Qaida?
What does the death of Osama bin Laden mean for the future direction and leadership of militant Islamism?So what happens to al-Qaida now?First break down al-Qaida into its constituent elements: the...
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Osama bin Laden dead: US strategy misconceived, says Hamid Karzai
Discovery of world's most wanted man in Pakistan safe haven shows west's entire military strategy is wrong, claims Afghan presidentHamid Karzai's reaction to the news of Osama bin Laden's violent death...
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Libya: This is Nato's dirty war | Benjamin Barber
The west's approach to Libya is self-deluding, hypocritical and is proving to be counterproductiveIn its bungled strike against Colonel Gaddafi that reportedly killed one of his sons and three of his...
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