Hellfire and ice-cream – alternative visions of the Rapture | Danielle...
I don't believe the prediction that today is Judgment Day, but just in case…So it turns out that the Rapture is due at six o'clock this evening, which means that, according to Family Radio, there's a...
View ArticleThe conversation: Does restorative justice work? Yes!
Reggie Aitchison, a serial offender, broke into 72-year-old Kathleen's house while high on a cocktail of drugs. After he was convicted, the pair agreed to meet and hear each other's story. They talk...
View ArticleLike many women, I've been raped, but I still agree with Ken Clarke | Suzanne...
Rape is not a party-political issue and I am disgusted that it has been treated that way this weekI have been seduced and I have been raped. And unlike certain French intellectuals, I know the...
View ArticleBig society isn't new, but the Tories are purging the past | Polly Toynbee
David Cameron thinks he has nothing to learn from Labour. The hard-won experience of creating community is being lostOn Monday, David Cameron will again try mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on his "big...
View ArticleBidisha's thought for the day: CCTV
Students should complain that installing CCTV in their schools makes them feel like they're in jailAggrieved students who complain that school feels like a prison are spot on. A secondary school in...
View ArticleOur revolt is not Obama's | Ahdaf Soueif
Barack Obama says he wants change in the Arab world yet insults us with the same old bad policiesThis wasn't slipping poison into the honey; it was smearing chemical sweeteners on to toxic pellets....
View ArticleIcelandic volcano ash could enter UK airspace, forecasters warn
Britain may be at risk as early as Tuesday, although the impact is not expected to be as great as it was in April 2010Ash from an erupting Icelandic volcano that has already grounded planes locally...
View ArticleSharp drop in risk assessments into financial firms
Financial Services Authority conducted 200 risk assessments in 2008 against 936 in 2002The number of risk assessments into financial firms has fallen dramatically since the banking crisis in 2008 when...
View ArticleLabour has a self-confidence problem, not an Ed Miliband one | Jackie Ashley
The party leader's getting many things right and is leading in polls. It's time for others to get stuck in and be more assertiveThe Labour party is dreaming of a leader. It wants somebody who can score...
View ArticleBetfred makes final push for Tote offer as MPs consider rival bids
Betfred founder Fred Done says his offer would make £113m for Treasury, 'strengthen UK racing' and support growth and jobsBookmaker Betfred has made a final push to win backing for its £200m cash bid...
View ArticleErotic René Magritte drawings to go on show in Liverpool
Explicit illustrations by Belgian artist reflect laddish sense of humourA loan from a very private collector of rare drawings, which have never been exhibited in Britain before, is causing headaches...
View ArticleBarack Obama wins ovation for speech to US-Israeli lobbying group
Applause as president sets out his plan for Middle East peace – but insists talks must be based on Israel's 1967 bordersBarack Obama won repeated rounds of applause and a standing ovation on Sunday at...
View ArticleSpanish voters head to the polls, as city square protests continue
Millions turn out to elect municipal councils and regional governments, despite protests over politics-as-usualAs tens of thousands of demonstrators continued to defy Spanish authorities by filling...
View ArticleKenneth Clarke is undermining rape case justice, Harriet Harman claims
Justice secretary to face new attack over suggestion that some rapes are more serious than othersKenneth Clarke is undermining work in bringing rapists to justice by returning to the "bad old days"...
View ArticlePhone hacking: journalist's lawsuit against NoW revives 'spying' claims
Dennis Rice launches proceedings alleging that his voicemail messages were intercepted while working at the Mail on SundayA leading tabloid journalist has joined those suing the News of the World for...
View ArticleLoved and loathed – the armoured knights of the National Grid
New generation of pylons carrying UK power supply will have to be very good to match up to designs of the 1930sSkeletal giants, armoured knights of the National Grid, a regiment of electricity pylons...
View ArticleEurope's Obamaphilia says more about its own weakness than the US president |...
Europeans see in Barack Obama the possibility of intelligent, public-spirited leaders, a far cry from their own, and ignore his actual recordIn his book Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama described himself...
View ArticleScottish newspaper identifies injunction row footballer
Sunday Herald carried a full-page picture with a thin black band across his eyes and the word 'censored' in capital letters.An escalating privacy battle between celebrities and users of social media...
View ArticleYemen president's supporters trap diplomats in embassy
British ambassador among those penned into United Arab Emirates embassy by mob loyal to President Ali Abdullah SalehWestern and Arab diplomats, including the British ambassador to Yemen, were trapped...
View ArticleJimmy Choo sold to Labelux for £500m
Luxury brand co-founded by socialite Tamara Mellon raises three times sum paid by TowerBrook Capital Partners in 2007Its killer heels are de rigueur for Hollywood actresses on the red carpet - and this...
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