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• 15 Sep 2010

  Jon Snow

  Why Benedict is no John Paul

  The spirit of uplift and renewal conjured up by Pope John Paul II when he came to the UK in 1982 seems unlikely this week when Pope Benedict XVI visits these shores, blogs Jon Snow.

• 26 Jul 2010

  

  A new energy source for Britain?

  Channel 4 News gains exclusive access to the UK’s first Shale gas well, a new way of extracting natural gas from underground rocks which could profoundly change the energy market.

• 17 Jun 2010

  Gary Gibbon

  EU summit: Cameron’s English breakfast and late lunch

  David Cameron mingles with EU leaders at his first-ever European Council. Gary Gibbon watches.

• 5 May 2010

  Will Britain lead Europe in growth over the next year?

  By Cathy Newman

  Gordon Brown said this morning that Britain leads europe in growth and jobs according to EU figures – but is he right?

• 7 Apr 2010

  

  Jobless eastern Europeans face removal

  European migrants who cannot secure work and support themselves will be deported from Britain under a new Home Office pilot project in Peterborough.

• 3 Mar 2010

  Jon Snow

  I suspected Polish reporter was a fake

  He reported Africa from the late 50s to the early 90s. He reported from Central America and covered the fall of the Shah in 1979 and the ensuing Iranian Revolution.

• 24 Nov 2009

  Brazil: flexing diplomatic muscles on the world stage

  Jon Snow is not the only one in Brazil this week. While he is there exploring Brazil’s response to climate change, Middle Eastern leaders have also been flying in for some high profile visits. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – Lula to you and I – has been hosting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in…

• 23 Mar 2009

  Jon Snow

  Jade Goody and Nicko Henderson

  This weekend in our village in the country we buried Nicko Henderson – Sir Nicholas Henderson, formerly HM ambassador to Warsaw, Bonn, Paris and Washington. The little Saxon church – one of only 20 buildings in the hamlet in which we each had homes – seats perhaps 45 people. We got more than a hundred…

• 24 Feb 2009

  A place of peace and calm in Gaza

  I read an account in The Observer on Sunday by my Newsnight colleague Mark Urban who set out in pursuit of his great-uncle’s war grave in Gaza. (He’s got a piece on this on his programme tonight, but I don’t know how my editor will take to me flagging this up.) The reason this particularly…