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Hugh Muir's diary
Time for another assault on Gately. No point having boots if you can\'t stick them in • Like a high-street brawler, dragged from the ...
U-turn over sex-crime vetting of school helpers
Government bows to public pressure and drops laws that would have forced parents to prove they are not paedophiles Laws forcing the 11 million people who help out in schools and nurseries to undergo ...
'My interrogators were British agents'
Mohammed Ezzouek, a victim of rendition from Kenya to Somalia, says UK agents were complicit in his torture Mohammed Ezzouek began to pray. He believed his death was imminent and that it would be bloody and brutal. The 23-year-old from west Lo...
Why UK faces future of food shortages
Britain faces a \'perfect storm\' of water shortage and lack of food, says the government\'s chief scientist, and climate change and crop and animal diseases will add to future woes. Science i...
X Factor finale gives ITV a bonanza
As the singers prepare to battle for the crown, the real winners will be Simon Cowell and an ailing broadcaster that could have its most lucrative weekend ever The days when watching TV was a shared national experience, with aud...
Bible tales retold for the secular age
Authors reimagine the nativity story for children to read and enjoy Ask any four-year-old why the shepherds followed that star and the answer is likely to be entertaining. "They brought J...
Obituaries 2009: Jack Jones
The trade unionist, who died peacefully at 96 on 21 April, is remembered for his passion and good humour by the veteran Labour politician I first ...
Anti-gay bigots plunge Africa into new era of hate crimes
Uganda is likely to pass a law within months that will make homosexuality a capital offence, joining 37 other countries in the continent where American evangelical Christian groups are increasingly spreading bigotry "Learned behaviour c...