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No to AV ... Yes to a whole new constitutional conflict
• Historic victory gives SNP working majority in Scotland• Overwhelming 'no' vote in AV referendum on 40% turnout• Collapse for Nick Clegg; triumph for David CameronPotentially the most serious threat...
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Unlawful Killing – the film the British won't get to see | Keith Allen
My documentary about the Diana inquest will be shown everywhere but the UK. Here's whyThe internet is a global lavatory wall, a Rabelaisian mixture of truth, lies, insanity and humour. I felt its power...
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Rabindranath Tagore was a global phenomenon, so why is he so neglected? | Ian...
Is his poetry any good? The answer for anyone who can't read Bengali must be: don't know. No translation is up to the jobRabindranath Tagore was born 150 years ago today. This weekend festivities and...
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Cheers! English wine challenges champagne with sparkling results
As the Queen starts making her own Windsor wine, the industry enjoys a record year✒ It's been a tremendous year for English wine with our vineyards producing an amazing 4m bottles, a record. And it...
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Monty Don's Italian Gardens – review
The Don's grand tour is small on horti and big on cultureOne of the side effects of middle age is enjoying gardening and staying in on Friday nights. And every other night for that matter, though...
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The conversation: Is equality in gay rights a done deal?
How much progress is Britain making on gay rights under a Tory-led coalition? Comedian Rhona Cameron, one of the first out lesbians on TV, takes on gay Tory MP Nigel EvansOver the past few weeks,...
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Face to faith: Love of strangers is a vital, open act and a risk worth taking
Turkey shows we would do well to remember the dwindling art of hospitalityAs I walked along the European bank of the Bosphorus, a small group of fisherman were coming to the end of their dinner. They...
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The Middletons were the stars of the show, but it was still a royal stitch-up...
The values of the Middletons' class – hard work, respect for property and insular family life – are actually at odds with those of the aristocracyWake up. The honeymoon is over. Back to reality. Even...
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Bidisha's thought for the day: Bookshops
My favourite bookshop, where I spent many happy hours plonked on the floor among a pile of books, is no more. How can I replace this happy place?Everyone has their happy place. For some, it's their...
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Seve Ballesteros obituary
Charismatic Spaniard widely seen as the best European golfer of all timeBefore the 1976 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, few people outside his home village on Spain's northern coast had heard of...
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Letters: They think it's all over – it may be now
The media does not yet seem to fully appreciate the implications of the AV referendum (No to AV, 7 May). For half a century the entire strategy of the Liberals/Lib Dems was to win enough MPs to force a...
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Letters: Scotland redraws the political map
I think that the results for the Scottish parliament are not due to Alex Salmond being a charismatic leader – though he is far and away more so than the bunch of "suits" we have in Westminster – but to...
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Letters: Grist to mill for the chattering classes
The AV referendum result has demonstrated the actual existence of the formerly rumoured metropolitan liberal elite (AV referendum, 7 May). What a parade of liberal snobs and toffs – Oxford and...
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Letters: Custody and care
The tragic deaths in Northern Ireland of two young people at Hydebank Wood Young Offenders Centre have just been announced (Report, 5 May). In England there have been five young deaths by suicide in...
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Letters: Say no to sex bill and the Mary Whitehouse treatment
Conservative MP Nadine Dorries wants teaching schoolgirls to say no to sex to go on the school curriculum (Tory MP: teenage girls should be taught how to say no to sex, 5 May).She's provoked a lot of...
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The weather in April
April was by far the warmest April on record in England; the average central England temperature (CET) was the highest in 353 years of records. The month was outstanding for sustained warmth, and was...
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Country diary: Dentdale, Yorkshire Dales
The arches of Dent Head Viaduct are one of the most spectacular features on the Settle-Carlisle railway. Only the traveller on the road 100ft below can appreciate one of their finer points, though, as...
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Nick Clegg and David Cameron agree key changes on NHS plans
Deputy PM tells Andrew Marr show that GPs should not be forced to sign up to new commissioning consortiumsDavid Cameron and Nick Clegg have agreed changes to the government's NHS reforms, allowing the...
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Liberal Democrats: The hard road back | Editorial
The rose garden love-in a year ago was understandable in some ways but it was a political misjudgmentLooking at the opinion polls since the general election, and in particular at the results of last...
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In praise of … Havergal Brian | Editorial
His Gothic Symphony is the ultimate cult neglected work by a British composer forgotten by all but the fanatical fewAfter booking opened on Saturday for the BBC Proms 2011, 87,000 tickets were sold in...
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