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Tim AdamsThe Guardian |
The fabulous Carol Vorderman got me briefly hooked last week in watching a particular number increase by the second. The number was the user count for...
The theory is that journalists should report the news rather than headline it – but on Friday the Washington Post, the celebrated ally of American...
I picked up the October issue of the Fortean Times the other day. For half a century, the magazine has been the go-to place for reports of the...
There is no blue plaque on the wall of 126 Aldersgate, a narrow four-storey terrace above a fast-food grill, near London’s Barbican, but it can’t...
The barrister Paul Powlesland, who has acted for climate protesters, was called to jury service last week, and made judicial history by taking an oath...
It’s liberating to sense how a government whose primary concern is not fighting culture wars might return a grown-up freedom to public debate....
From time to time, in this job, you have the privilege of meeting an individual whose vivid spirit stays with you. For me, one of those individuals...
British public life often tends toward sitcom, and you imagine that once the catastrophic economic fallout of her time in office has faded – in a...
In a week in which the nation’s eyeballs have been fixed on the wonky sleeve of a royal cardigan, the news of the effective bankruptcy of...
The idea that every business needs a messianic mission statement took hold in the 1970s, to “humanise” faceless global corporations. The...
Today, for the first Sunday in the 489-year history of the Church of England, its vicars are at liberty to offer “prayers of love and faith” to...