Paul Mason
Greece crisis: upper middle class vs rural pensioners
Last night’s ‘Yes’ campaign demo was big – I would say maybe a quarter bigger than the ‘No’ demo of Monday, and with a much more angry atmosphere.
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FactCheck: Is Britain pulling its weight in the fight against IS?
David Cameron says only the US has hit the Islamic State group with more air strikes than Britain. Is the UK really doing enough in Iraq?
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Paul Mason
Greece: a deal nobody believes in
While the proposal has caused outrage among the Greek conservatives and outrage among Syriza’s left-wing voters, the real problem is bigger.
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Paul Mason
Greece – five pictures of a troubled country
Ahead of a crucial meeting on the Greece debt crisis on Monday, Paul Mason presents a special long-read, offering five pictures of the country.
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Keme Nzerem
Mo Farah: do two missed dope tests really prove anything?
The fact that Mo Farah missed two doping tests proves nothing. But given the fact that eyebrows have been raised for decades about Alberto Salazar’s methods, why was he sent to Oregon?
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Michael Crick
Sue Lloyd-Roberts – can you help?
Sue Lloyd-Roberts is one most of the most extraordinary reporters in TV history – fearless, dogged and ground-breaking.
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Parliament renovations ‘could cost nearly £6bn’
A report on renovations at the Palace of Wesminster says they could cost £5.7bn and take around 32 years to complete – but if MPs moved out of the Commons, it would cost less than £4bn.
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Jeb Bush presidential campaign: the key questions
Jeb Bush, younger brother of George W Bush and son of George H Bush, formally declares his candidacy for president of the United States.
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Michael Crick
Grant Shapps: no hard evidence he edited entries, Wikipedia decides
A Wikipedia committee has decided there was no conclusive evidence Grant Shapps or any of his associates were involved in editing entries.
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Paul Mason
Greece: will Alexis Tsipras wave a writ at Europe?
While Tsipras, Varoufakis and their negotiators have been trying to get the country’s debt reduced via the IMF and ECB, Zoe Konstantopoulou has been working to get it declared invalid.
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Facebook under fire over ‘disturbing’ baby video
A children’s charity says “it is time for social networking sites to be held to account” after a “disturbing” video was posted on Facebook showing a baby being dunked in water.
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Olympic champion Allan Wells denies doping allegation ‘slur’
A BBC investigation claims Olympic gold medallist Allan Wells was a drugs cheat, allegations he claims are a “shocking slur”.
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Charles Kennedy: a man of ‘wit, charm, and humanity’
Former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy has died at the age of 55. Lord Ashdown called him a man of “wit, charm, judgment, principle and decency”, while David Cameron praised his humanity.
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Caitlyn Jenner: a ‘pivotal moment’ for transgender people?
In a glamorous photoshoot for Vanity Fair, Caitlyn Jenner announces herself to the world in what has been hailed as a “pivotal moment” in the perception of transgender people.
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Paul Mason
Greece: a clod of earth worth saving?
There may be a technical get-out clause that allows Greece to wrap its four repayment dates to the IMF this month into one, but the IMF’s own assessment is correct: Greece can’t pay.
