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Channel 4 News’s FactCheck team will be monitoring political claims thorughout the general election campaign.
On the day Gordon Brown appears to have headed off a leadership challenge, Faisal Islam predicts that a batch of good economic statistics could mean a 25 March general electioni
We’ve received the following posting from Dr Catherine Maternowska, who works in the Mombasa hospital featured in last month’s film on child sex abuse in Kenya. The hope among the hospital’s staff is that the film – and Catherine’s blog – will promote awareness, both at home and abroad, of the problems Kenyan children face.…
If there were an internet cafe at the gates of hell, it might sound a little like the MWR on Forward Operating Base (FOB) Bostick. There is a quiet panic that seeps out in the silence, between the clatter of keyboards and the occasional snippet over IP telephones. A military base’s entire emotional complex sent…
Jon Snow
You tend to think he was just very fat and went through a monstrous quantity of wives. But Henry VIII was a much bigger man than all that. I’ve just emerged from the utterly fantastic Henry VIII exhibition at the British Library – a place far too many people have never been. I would never…
SHANGHAI, CHINA – How is it that the country with one of the poorest populations in the world is the biggest lender to the richest? How can it be that apparently one of the prime agenda items for Mrs Clinton’s Chinese visit was her indebtedness to her country’s indebtedness. Well, welcome to Chimerica. It’s the…