There is a corner… mourn but don’t militarise terror deaths
I found myself thinking about Rupert Brooke’s soldier this morning as we mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and think about British tourists who were murdered in Tunisia.
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A British teenage boy has been given a life sentence with a minimum term of five years for plotting a “chilling” Anzac Day parade terror attack in Australia.
Channel 4 News weatherman Liam Dutton has taken the internet by storm for his flawless pronunciation of the Welsh village Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in a TV forecast.
A bomb on a motorcycle kills at least 16 people and injures dozens more at a Hindu shrine in central Bangkok.
Lawyers say the government is destroying the legal aid system. Ministers say our system is one of the most expensive in the world. Who’s right?
I found myself thinking about Rupert Brooke’s soldier this morning as we mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and think about British tourists who were murdered in Tunisia.
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley calls for the confederate flag to be taken down after the killing of nine black churchgoers. Why does the flag provoke such controversy?
The England women’s football team are through to the quarterfinals of the World Cup – a traditional stumbling block for the men. Who are their key players and what obstacles do they face?
Paying for sex becomes illegal in Northern Ireland, but with calls for the law to be rolled out across the UK, a leading campaign group representing sex workers says lawmakers are missing the point.
A man who was abused at Kincora children’s home in Belfast is demanding that what happened there decades ago should be included in the UK-wide inquiry set up by the government.
Can England’s cricket team afford to leave out anyone with proven talent? One former England captain says the case for Pietersen is obvious.
Five Australian teenagers are arrested on suspicion of plotting an attack at a veterans’ day ceremony in Melbourne, officials say.
The DPP says Lord Janner’s dementia renders him incapable of standing trial on charges of historic child sex abuse. But is the DPP right?
So far, so predictable. One week of the formal election campaign underway and one key political football emerges, as so often before, the NHS.
The impact from a devastating tropical storm will be “the very, very, very worst” in isolated outer islands but damage was still being assessed, Vanuatu’s president says.
Aid agencies say that a tropical cyclone could have wiped out entire villages in Vanuatu, in what could be one of the worst disasters in Pacific history.