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Owen Howells: From the UK to Australia and back again (and again!)
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Justice for sale but who pays for the cost?
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Five minutes with Rebecca Adlington
Becky Adlington’s swimming career had been quietly building momentum before she finally freestyled her way into the public eye, with a double gold medal victory at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and two gold and two bronze medals at the Delhi Commonwealth Games. In connection with Speedo’s Aqualab program I was invited to meet Adlington, fresh [...]
By Ellie Edmunds | Sport | Wednesday, 13 October 2010 at 5:13 pm
Assessing the fallout: Mark Byford leaves the BBC
On the face of it we are seeing a big shake up at the top level of the BBC. In most organisations the announcement in quick succession of the departure of the boss’s second command and the marketing chief would be an indication of seismic change in the business. But the BBC, of course, is not like any other organisation. So I doubt whether these changes will make much difference at all.
By Ian Burrell | Notebook | Wednesday, 13 October 2010 at 5:01 pm
Chilean Miners: They’re not heroes, they just got stuck
Isn’t all this rolling Chilean mine news a bit too much? It’s miraculous that the 33 miners survived and that they’ve been rescued and all that – but blanket coverage on every news channel?
Before this all happened I’d never even thought about Chilean mines before. Why would I? But now I know what miners eat, [...]
By Simon Rice | Notebook | Wednesday, 13 October 2010 at 4:54 pm
India’s economic miracle is not a miracle
My short profile of Sachin Tendulkar, the brilliant Indian batsman, for the Sports pages yesterday contained an appalling error.
I referred to how the Little Master has come of age during India’s “economic miracle”.
That this is an exhausted cliche is bad enough.
Alas, it’s worse than that. It’s completely untrue.
Miracles don’t exist, as David Hume pointed out in [...]
By Amol Rajan | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 13 October 2010 at 4:34 pm
Rugby League: England could be in for a battering
Warm-up matches are a fine art and a dreadfully difficult one to get right.
For their Four Nations tilt in Australia and New Zealand, England will have had two dummy runs.
The first, against Cumbria, was unimpressive enough, but it served its purpose of giving players a run and probably getting one or two of them [...]
By Dave Hadfield | Sport | Wednesday, 13 October 2010 at 2:05 pm
LOVEFiLM announced for PlayStation 3 as film subscription expands
LOVEFiLM subscribers will soon be able to stream the UK’s largest choice of subscription titles directly to their TVs, through their PS3 as a new partnership is announced.
By Michael Plant | Games, Notebook | Wednesday, 13 October 2010 at 12:14 pm
Should graduates be discouraged from paying their loans back early?
Vince Cable suggested in the Commons yesterday that there might be a fee levied for early repayment, in the same way that a fee is charged by banks on those who pay off their mortgage earlier than agreed.
But I’m not sure the bank loan analogy is valid. And I’m also not sure this is the burning issue of fairness that some are suggesting.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 13 October 2010 at 11:19 am
AJ4PM latest
The AJ4PM campaign has been reconstituted for one last comeback tour. We are celebrating the belated achievement of our ambition, that Alan Johnson should be running the Labour Party.
Ed Miliband might have thought that he would give him less trouble as shadow chancellor than Ed Balls or Yvette Cooper (the next leader of the Labour [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 13 October 2010 at 10:50 am
Never mind Twitter, what about Hogarth?
You might think an Eighteenth Century engraver and painter wouldn’t have much to teach us about the future of modern media.
But William Hogarth is as relevant today as he was when he was sketching A Harlot’s Progress in 1731. Not because he dealt in scenes of boozing and bawdiness beyond the imagination of most celebrity [...]
By Ian Burrell | Notebook | Wednesday, 13 October 2010 at 9:52 am
The anti-trafficking industry is the biggest threat to migrants
In recent years a motley crew of government agencies, police forces, human rights activists, feminists, religious groups and celebrities have turned human trafficking into one of the biggest issues of our time.
The anti-trafficking lobby claims that millions of people around the world – mostly women and children – are being smuggled across borders by means [...]
By Nathalie Rothschild | Battle of Ideas, Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 13 October 2010 at 6:41 am
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