Jon Snow
Sanitising war
I was cycling through the southern part of Hyde Park yesterday when I noticed freshly laid flowers at the side of the carriageway.
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Wave of Catholic unity for penitent Pope
Say what you will, they’ve certainly been lucky with the weather where Hyde Park’s doing a good job of living up to still, sunny, Bellahouston Park, in Glasgow, on Thursday.
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Pope expresses ‘deep sorrow’ over child abuse
Pope Benedict meets victims and acknowledges the “shame and humiliation” of the child abuse scandal felt by “all of us” within the Catholic church – as thousands fill Hyde Park to greet His Holiness.
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Can the UK have a relationship with China while addressing human rights?
The Foreign Secretary David Lammy has pressed his Chinese counterpart on concerns about human rights and Russia’s war in Ukraine in his first visit there since taking office.
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Queen’s funeral: Service at Westminster Abbey for Queen Elizabeth II
It has been a day filled with ceremony and spectacle, but also heavy with emotion here in central London.
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Thousands join Black Lives Matter protest in London over George Floyd death
Thousands of people have marched through central London as a show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.
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FactCheck: viral video doesn’t show violence in a ‘Sharia Law Zone’ in London
This video is shockingly violent – but it doesn’t show what many people say it does.
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The artist behind the Serpentine Lake’s giant new sculpture
They’ve wrapped up the Reichstag in silk – and surrounded entire islands with fabric. The artist Christo, and his late wife – are known for being big and being bold. Now Christo has brought his first major work to Britain – with a huge sculpture in the middle of the Serpentine in London’s Hyde Park.…
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7/7 bombings remembered in London and across UK
Petals fall from the dome of St Paul’s cathedral during a minute’s silence to remember the victims of the 7/7 bombings, on the tenth anniversary of the terror attack.
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Record number of Britons stuck on low pay
A record 5m people in Britain are stuck on low-paid jobs, posing real problems with living costs but also risking longer term damage to the economy.
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Unions call for ‘socialist alternative’ at low pay protest
Tens of thousands of workers march through London to call for an end to austerity and pay rises for public sector workers.
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Northern Irish ‘on-the-run’ letters policy legal, but flawed
Controversial letters sent to around 190 Irish republicans assuring them they were no longer wanted by UK police are not unlawful, but are part of a “systematically flawed” scheme, an inquiry finds.
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7 July bombings memorial defaced on ninth anniversary
The memorial commemorating the victims of the 7 July bombings in London is defaced – hours before survivors and bereaved relatives gather to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the attacks.
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London penthouse sells for £140m. Should we care?
A penthouse at a luxury apartment block in London is sold for a British record of £140m. Is this more evidence of an unwelcome housing bubble?
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Peter Hain calls for NI Troubles amnesty
Peter Hain says prosecutions related to the Northern Ireland conflict should end, as Britain prepares for the first ever state visit to this country by an Irish head of state.
