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School lotteries fail to help poorer pupils
Created: 03 Sep 2010
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Middle-class families monopolise the best schools even when a lottery is used to allocate places, according to a study published today.

Lotteries

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Social class affects white pupils\' exam results more than those of ethnic minorities ? study
Created: 03 Sep 2010
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A child\'s social class is more likely to determine how well they perform in school if they are white than if they come from an ethnic minority, researchers

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Maths prodigy, now 15, heads for Cambridge
Created: 03 Sep 2010
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At 15, most teenagers are struggling to get their heads around the algebra and equations of maths GCSE. Not Arran Fernandez.

Next month, he will

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Schools must earn poor pupil payment, charity tells education secretary Gove
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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Schools would be expected to give priority to poorer children when admitting new pupils and judged on the extent to which they narrow the gap between

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Degrees in lap-dancing?
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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Earlier in the summer there were rumblings of rage at the recent trend towards educating half the population to degree level. This expansion appears

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Girls think they are cleverer than boys from age four, study finds
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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Girls think they are cleverer, more successful and harder working than boys from as young as four, a study has found.

Boys come round to this

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142 schools to convert to academies this school year
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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Over 140 schools are expected to convert to academy status in the coming school year after the government passed a new law to allow every school in

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Imperial College to establish medical school in Singapore
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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Imperial College London is to set up a new medical school in Singapore in the latest move by an elite British university to establish a presence in

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Schools converting to academies in September 2010
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet

Kemnal Technology College (part of the Kemnal Trust), Bromley

Brine Leas High School, Cheshire East

Fallibroome

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Singing workshop offers world-class tuition with a different beat
Created: 31 Aug 2010
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Stomping across a sopping wet field towards a blue-and-white striped tent called the Harmony House, I suddenly realise I'm not feeling all that keen

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Tourism
City of Cambridge
Created: 19 Sep 2009
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Combining world class education opportunities with the unique history, culture and the many public resorts, the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts is the best way to spend a beneficial and amusing summer. 

 

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Information Technologies
SAP Launches University Alliances Community
Created: 30 Jan 2009
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Check out the University Alliances Community (UAC), the newest member of the SAP Community Network. The UAC is designed to connect faculty, students, SAP customers and partners, and SAP internal experts. 
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From the Observer
James Ellroy: Haunted by his mother's ghost
Created: 23 Aug 2010
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Authors who write about dark or disturbing subjects invariably draw the question: where does that come from? But no one who knows anything about him

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Money
Bargain netbooks bite back at Apple
Created: 03 Sep 2010
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Last week\'s article regarding the Apple MacBook sparked a fiery debate about affordability and the usual battle between Apple and PCs. This week we

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Comment is free
In praise of ? God
Created: 03 Sep 2010
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"Dear Sir: Your astonishment\'s odd; / I am always about in the quad." This was the divine response, as imagined by Ronald Knox, to the inquisitive

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Stephen Hawking can\'t use physics to answer why we\'re here
Created: 03 Sep 2010
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Stephen Hawking makes the claim that it is not necessary to invoke God as the creator of the universe and the assertion that physics alone made it.

He

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No, I don\'t believe science holds all the answers to our existence
Created: 03 Sep 2010
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In finger-wagging style, Mary Midgley warns that "serious scientists know that their enquiries are endless; any answers always raise a swarm of new

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You can't judge the value of a degree course by the number of contact hours
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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The Browne review into the funding of higher education has led to a debate on whether a university education provides value for money. In the last three

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Michael Gove's odd schools obsession
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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The new school year was supposed to bring a great wave of new academies. In the event, it will be a trickle. In June Michael Gove claimed that 1,100

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Banded school admissions provide a quick route to fairer education
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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Over the course of my five years as a teacher at a central London comprehensive school, there was a noticeable shift in the tone of conversation among

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Faith in science is not enough – people deserve proof
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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I am an evangelist. But instead of spreading the gospel or any other religious message, I spend my time trying to share the knowledge of what I believe

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Hawking: God 'not necessary'
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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Courtesy to guardian.co.uk.

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Tony Blair: Something to explain and to say
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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Tony Blair has written an extraordinary political memoir. He could hardly do otherwise. This is not a judgment on the quality of his prose, which is

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In praise of ? Gone With the Wind
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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The true origin of the celebrated phrase "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn", which Clark Gable so savagely directs at Vivien Leigh in Gone With

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Business
HMV under fire from investors over Waterstone's performance
Created: 30 Aug 2010
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Rebel shareholders have opened fire on music shops chain HMV over its management of Waterstone's, Britain's largest books retailer. Investors want HMV

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Environment
Still wary of Bjørn Lomborg's pronouncements on climate change
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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Bjørn Lomborg's change of mind on climate change is welcome, and some of his suggestions good, but your glowing review of his new book failed to examine

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Satellite eye on Earth: August 2010
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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Courtesy to guardian.co.uk.

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CBI to host climate change 'clash of the titans' debate
Created: 31 Aug 2010
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The most prominent climate sceptic and the most vocal advocate of the cause in the UK are to take part in their first public debate on the subject.

The

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Bjørn Lomborg: the dissenting climate change voice who changed his tune
Created: 31 Aug 2010
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Few statisticians can have inspired more passion than Bjørn Lomborg, the Danish academic who became famous as the author of the controversial (some

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Rajendra Pachauri, head of UN climate change body, under pressure to resign
Created: 31 Aug 2010
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Rajendra Pachauri, who leads the UN's science panel on climate change, is coming under pressure to step aside as chair of the organisation after an

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Bjørn Lomborg: in his own words
Created: 31 Aug 2010
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Bjørn Lomborg in his own words:

"This chapter accepts the reality of man-made global warming." The Skeptical Environmentalist, 2001

"Global

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Bjørn Lomborg: $100bn a year needed to fight climate change
Created: 31 Aug 2010
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The world's most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is "undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today"

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Science
God, Stephen Hawking and M Theory
Created: 03 Sep 2010
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Yesterday, when I should have been writing a paper about data from the Atlas detector at Cern\'s Large Hadron Collider, I was taxied across Geneva to

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Stephen Hawking says universe not created by God
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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God did not create the universe, the man who is arguably Britain's most famous living scientist says in a forthcoming book.

In the new work, The

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Newborn babies should not be given sugar as pain relief, says study
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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Doctors should stop giving newborn babies sugar to relieve the pain of minor medical procedures because it does not work and may damage their brains,

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The Mosasaur's kinky tail
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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On 6 April 1821 ? a little more than two decades before their countryman Richard Owen would coin the term "Dinosauria" ? the English naturalists Henry

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Supersymmetry - the end of the line?
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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In case you missed it, I wrote about a conference on supersymmetry I went to last week, just before this blog moved home. I also gave some reasons why

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Psychedelic drugs return as potential treatments for mental illness
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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Long before hippie poster boy Timothy Leary invited the world to "Turn on, tune in and drop out", a group of pioneering psychiatrists working in Canada

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Exercise can help prevent cancer, researchers say
Created: 31 Aug 2010
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About 10,000 Britons a year could avoid getting breast or bowel cancer if they undertook more physical activity, especially walking, according to the

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Welcome to my new blarg
Created: 31 Aug 2010
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Like most people, I always wanted to be a success; I was born wanting to accomplish something worthwhile that would justify my existence on this planet.

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Frightening new predator found in the homeland of the dragon
Created: 31 Aug 2010
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There's no evidence of wings or fire-breathing capability. But the powerfully built, meat-eating predator that terrorised Romania some 80m years ago

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Dry early summer turns 2010 into a vintage year for archaeology
Created: 30 Aug 2010
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Dry weeks in early summer have already made 2010 a vintage year for archaeology, English Heritage said yesterday. The conditions allowed hundreds of

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Society
Young at risk as sexually transmitted infections reach record levels
Created: 25 Aug 2010
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Young people are increasingly likely to end up with sexually transmitted infections, experts say today as official figures are released showing record

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UK news
Tests that killed MoD scientist were badly planned, inquest finds
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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Secret explosives tests in which a blast killed a Ministry of Defence scientist were inappropriately planned and appeared to have been inadequately

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World news
Australian school drops 'gay' from Kookaburra song
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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An Australian school headteacher has asked students to stop using the word "gay" when singing a classic children's song, but today said no offence was

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News
STDs in England: Breakdown by region, gender and ethnicity
Created: 26 Aug 2010
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New figures from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) today reveal a record level in diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the UK.

According

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Books
Extract: Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
Created: 03 Sep 2010
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A healthy dose of sick lit
Created: 03 Sep 2010
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Publishers love to flog fads to death. Consider the recent mania for "misery memoirs", which (mercifully) appears to have peaked. No more tales of anal

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Purple Ronnie creator wins baby book award
Created: 03 Sep 2010
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His latest creation is a long way from Purple Ronnie, but the creator of that ubiquitous stickman, Giles Andreae, has been named winner of an award

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Dan Brown tops Oxfam\'s \'least wanted\' chart
Created: 03 Sep 2010
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Dan Brown has hung on to the dubious honour of being the author whose books readers most want to get rid of, topping the list of writers most-donated

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Why demon heads of children's fiction are role models for trainee teachers
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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They may be sadistic figures who hate children, but a study suggests that the savage portrayal of headteachers in children's literature possesses a

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Extract: Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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Sitting, lying or standing: what's the pole position for reading?
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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I don't mean to boast, but I think I have quite strong hands. Strong because they are forced, every night in bed, to hold up whatever hefty tome I'm

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Extract: Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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Courtesy to guardian.co.uk.

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JK Rowling gives £10m to set up multiple sclerosis research clinic
Created: 31 Aug 2010
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The author JK Rowling has donated £10m to set up a clinic to research treatments for multiple sclerosis, the degenerative disease that killed

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Online dictionaries: which is best?
Created: 31 Aug 2010
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Sad news for those of us with fond memories of long minutes lost in the more arcane histories of English words: the third edition of the Oxford English

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Culture
Authors join forces to defend public lending right
Created: 27 Aug 2010
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Nearly 3,000 authors are calling on the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, not to cut back on the money they receive when their books are loaned from a

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Art and design
Glowing praise in the dark for digital books
Created: 31 Aug 2010
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The experience of reading books on an iPad is disconcertingly beautiful. It has rapidly become the favourite use of this dazzling gadget in our house.

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Stage
Why does theatre plus science equal poor plays?
Created: 27 Jul 2010
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Title of experiment: Examination of Plays about Science.

Purpose: To determine why so few good plays about maths and science are written, when

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Travel
Smart options for a family day out
Created: 14 Aug 2010
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North-west Pilot Concorde, and reinvent the wheel, Manchester and Wilmslow Aircraft aficionados should plot a course for Manchester airport's Runway

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Life and style
School dinners or a packed lunch?
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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It may not have felt like much of a summer but school's back this week and in a few days the autumn term will officially start; new shoes are being

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Technology
Dennis Shasha: Nature can improve our computers
Created: 22 Aug 2010
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Robots on Mars that can fix themselves and computers built from DNA: not science fiction but the work of scientists at the forefront of computing. Dennis

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Television & radio
Six to watch: TV schools
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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This week the nation's kids return to school, all bright-eyed and smelling of hope. Ditto the cast of Waterloo Road – basically Holby City for former

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Music
Bono could have been prime minister, says Tony Blair
Created: 03 Sep 2010
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In a memoir filled with profound navel-gazing, political bombshells and a few purple-prose love scenes, Tony Blair has also found time to salute U2\'s

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Politics
How Tony Blair's memoirs line up against others in No 10 genre
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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Winston Churchill had the right idea about memoirs. "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it," he revealed during the second world war.

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Tony Blair: quotes from A Journey
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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On the banks crisis'The biggest danger was a view that people would want the state to come back into fashion – I didn't think that'

On the

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Media
Something lacking in the trouser department?
Created: 27 Aug 2010
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One of the joys of language is that sometimes it is the little things that trigger the most intense debate. Such as one little word: "no". Or, more

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Film
The Girl Who Played With Fire: is the Millennium trilogy still burning bright?
Created: 24 Aug 2010
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The basicsEveryone's favourite psychologically scarred, battle-hardened punk hacker, Lisbeth Salander, returns to exact further vengeance on any misogynistic

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Football
Soccer and study? Premier League aims to score big with 'free schools' plan
Created: 04 Aug 2010
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The typical footballer's understanding of the three Rs might normally extend no further than studying the flicks and tricks of Rooney, Ronaldo and Ronaldinho.

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Sport
Great defence – but what about the bidding?
Created: 26 Aug 2010
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One of the most entertaining recent books on bridge is Moments of Truth at the Bridge Table by the Indian writer R Jayaram. Bridge is very popular in

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From the Guardian
From the archive, 1 September 1930: Obituary: Dr WA Spooner
Created: 02 Sep 2010
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The death occurred at Oxford on Friday evening of Dr. William Archibald Spooner, who was for twenty-one years Warden of New College, Oxford.

Dr

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Law
Singapore's reputation on the line as British author fights on
Created: 30 Jul 2010
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Singapore's long-serving administration has won some time to ponder how it will deal with yet another self-inflicted blow to its global branding.

The

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Promotions
The Fresher Competition 2010
Created: 13 Aug 2010
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Courtesy to guardian.co.uk.

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Help
Introducing guardian.co.uk's new society and education pages
Created: 31 Aug 2010
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Today, we've launched a new front page for Societyguardian.co.uk.

This follows recent changes to our Educationguardian.co.uk, business, world,

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