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Blair Inc's 'baffling' increase in earnings
Accountants question transparency of financial records kept by former PM's complex web of companiesUnemployment is rising and companies are going to the wall as the economic turmoil continues to...
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Race question seems likely to haunt Liverpool for rest of season
Liverpool may be regretting their stance on the Luis Suárez racial abuse controversy after Friday's incident involving Oldham's Tom AdeyemiThe Luis Suárez T-shirts Liverpool wore at Wigan were always a...
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Stephen Lawrence killers will not get parole if they refuse to confess guilt
Parole Board unlikely to grant David Norris and Gary Dobson release on licence without evidence of remorseStephen Lawrence's killers will serve many years in prison beyond their minimum sentence unless...
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My London is so different from Stephen Lawrence's | Inez Sarkodee-Adoo
The case of Stephen Lawrence feels like a grim glance into my city's historyStephen Lawrence was murdered before I was born. And yet his name was in the air when I was growing up. I can recall events...
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Tory feminists: the true blue sisterhood
Who says feminists can only be leftwing? An influential group of Conservative women MPs are increasingly vocal about the need to tackle gender equality. With radical views on parenting and work, can...
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New to Nature No. 62: Mycena lucentipes
Six new species of gilled mushrooms that glow in the dark have been discovered in the endangered Atlantic Forest in BrazilThe genus Mycena includes about 500 known species of gilled mushrooms. Six new...
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Hungary's hard-pressed workforce struggles with unaffordable mortgages
Budapest's maverick economic policies are undermining its currency, the forint – piling pressure on the thousands of Hungarians who are trying to pay off home loans denominated in Swiss francs or...
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The Lawrence case has at last made us confront the complex nature of racism |...
Its legacy is profound and given us valuable new ways of thinking. We must not waste these insightsWhen I first joined the legal team working with Neville and Doreen Lawrence, I was struck by a curious...
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Jack Holmes and His Friend by Edmund White – review
Edmund White explores the geometries of gay-straight friendship in this engaging and often erotic novelCan a gay man and a straight man be friends? Can their sexualities coexist comfortably? These...
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John Brockman: the man who runs the world's smartest website
Since the mid-1960s John Brockman has been at the cutting edge of ideas. He is a passionate advocate of both science and the arts, and his website Edge is a salon for the world's finest mindsTo say...
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Mystery Chinese blogger scores a hit with Cultural Revolution novel
Under The Hawthorn Tree has already sold more than a million copies in China aloneA novel by an anonymous Chinese author living in America, which started life as a blog, has become a worldwide...
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Single-sex schools are more likely to produce high-flying career girls
A study claims pupils educated within an all-female environment are much more likely to take chances than their coed peersIf you want your daughter to be a high-flying businesswoman or banker, send her...
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Youssou N'Dour: the singer who changed his tune | Observer profile
The foremost figure in world music once said he never had any political ambitions. Now he wants to be Senegal's president, becoming a force for change rather than just a voice of changeIt stands 49...
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The day Princess Elizabeth became Queen
It's now 60 years since Princess Elizabeth, on a trip to Kenya's Treetops hotel, was told of her father George VI's death. But the true story of that day has only just come to lightTreetops hotel in...
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Now is not the time to turn our backs on Enlightenment values | Will Hutton
From Hungary to South Africa, the US to the UK, the right no longer embraces progress or tolerance, reason or democratic argumentIt was another bad week for the west's great Enlightenment tradition. On...
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In Burma's villages, floods and power cuts mean more than reform
As world leaders jet into the capital and Aung San Suu Kyi's party rallies in the cities, rural leaders must tackle more immediate issuesDrive out through Rangoon's bumpy streets – past the pagodas and...
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Stieg Larsson was an extremist, not a feminist | Nick Cohen
The bestselling author's attitude to the abuse of immigrant women was truly shockingWhen Rooney Mara, star of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, suggested that Lisbeth Salander was not a feminist, Stieg...
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New Hampshire Republican debate
Live coverage of the New Hampshire Republican debate as Ron Paul, Rick Santorum and the rest try to trip Mitt Romney11.45pm: A summary of tonight's GOP debate in New Hampshire:• Saturday night's debate...
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Romney cruises to victory in New Hampshire
GOP frontrunner sets sights on South Carolina after easy win, with Ron Paul second and Jon Huntsman a disappointing thirdMitt Romney is to fly to South Carolina for the next round of the Republican...
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Iran nuclear scientist killed in Tehran motorbike bomb attack
Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan is latest victim in series of attacks apparently targeting key figures in Tehran's nuclear programmeAn Iranian university professor working at one of the country's main uranium...
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