Gaza ceasefire: the limits of the term ‘humanitarian’
For twelve hours they put their lives back together. In the shattered suburb of Shejaiyah they dug bodies from the rubble.
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Paul Mason has left Channel 4 News.
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Financial sanctions on Russia: big or nothing?
We just sent a camera out to film “Russian influence” in the City of London. As I expected, there’s a few nameplates, some doorbells and the odd logo – Alfabank, Sberbank – and that’s it.
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Why Israel is losing the social media war over Gaza
For the first time in a major Arab-Israeli conflict, the world has access to non-traditional sources of reality such as Twitter – and it means Israel is losing the battle for hearts and minds.
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Reshuffle not just a public school merry-go-round
David Cameron’s reshuffle is an attempt to make a fundamental change in how the Conservatives are perceived by voters, says Paul Mason.
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David Mitchell publishes story on Twitter: write your own
Novelist David Mitchell is publishing a short story on Twitter over the next week. In tribute, so is Channel 4 News – with your help. Our Economics Editor Paul Mason has written the first line…
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There are no heroes on the zero-hours borderline
They’re not sacked but merely told: “There’s no work next week.” How a new play shows people struggling with the life of zero-hours contracts.
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Al Jazeera journalist speaks out from Egyptian jail
“Al Jazeera reporters allowed only one hour of sun” – Mohamed Fahmy, an Al Jazeera journalist jailed in Egypt, communicates with the outside world from prison. Paul Mason has the details.
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Making sense of the fighting in Slaviansk
Overnight, the pro-Russian rebels in Slaviansk, Ukraine, are reported to have quit the town, fighting their way out in one or more armoured convoys as the Ukrainian army attacked.
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30 years on – the miners’ strike retold for a new generation
Wonderland, by portraying miners’ lives and culture as they were, and by focusing on men only, shows why a certain kind of solidarity could not cope with the complex, harsh, economy that was emerging.
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Why not everyone laughed at the NT’s hilarious new satire
In order to tell the truth about the world of tabloid editors and their political friends, you have to depict a world with no light or saving human virtues.
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Jon Cruddas on Labour’s ‘dead hand’
Despite saying there was a “dead hand” blocking policy at the heart of the Labour leadership, the party’s policy chief Jon Cruddas tells Channel 4 News he is “optimistic” about the party’s future.
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NT farce that sheds light on the murky world of tabloids
A tabloid editor rises to the top, in the process laying bare the establishment’s corruption. But Richard Bean’s Great Britain bears no resemblance to any characters, living or dead.
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The Bank of Zero
The Bank of England is so worried about the financial risk rising from roaring house prices that it has decided to do, er, nothing.
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No-one to blame for the wrongdoing at Wonga?
Despite being found to have faked legal letters to pressure customers into coughing up, payday loan company Wonga is not facing criminal action.
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Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Ukraine: what happens next in a world without framework?
The question is no longer what Tony Blair did, or what President Obama should do, but what are we all going to do?
