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Draconian sentence Paralympian athlete Oscar Pistorius was cleared of murder but convicted of culpable homicide, the equivalent of manslaughter in English law.…
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Birth of a nation A reminder of how England and Scotland came to be one country: — Proposals had been…
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In poor taste US Ambassador Matthew Barzun attracted the ire of chefs for complaining that he had been served lamb…
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Not in their name The BBC decided to start calling the Islamic terror group Isis by the acronym IS instead.…
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Tough at the top The clocks on Big Ben were cleaned by abseiling window-cleaners. Some other big cleaning/painting jobs: —…
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Ministerial needs Home Office minister Mark Simmonds resigned, complaining he couldn’t afford to live in London on his junior minister’s…
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Off the shelf How do we boycott Putin? Some things we traded with Russia, by value, between March and May…
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Commons inheritance Emily Benn, granddaughter of Tony and niece of Hilary, has won the right to stand for Labour in…
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What Germans do worst Some things Germans aren’t very good at: — Making reliable car engines. According to a survey by Warranty Direct…
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Public benefit Public sector unions held a strike over pay. How well are public-sector workers paid compared with their counterparts…
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All must have prizes Paul Pugh, the £104,000-a-year chief executive of the Passport Office, was nominated for ‘leader of the…
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Green wings It was revealed that Pascal Husting, Greenpeace’s international programme director, commutes 250 miles by air from his home…
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The not-so-great charter David Cameron wants every child to be taught about Magna Carta. Some bits he might want to…
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Old world Brazil has struggled to get ready for the World Cup, even though it hosted it before, in 1950.…
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Game of thrones The Spanish king, Juan Carlos, announced that he is to abdicate in favour of his son, Prince…
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Escape committees An LSE/Institute for Government report estimated the cost of Scottish independence at £2.7 billion, a sum arrived at…
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Parliamentary privilege Some facts and figures about the European Parliament, according to the parliament: — The parliament annually costs €3.10…
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Memory holes The EU wants to introduce a law which would force Google to delete from its searches old information…
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Judges in jail Barrister and part-time judge Constance Briscoe was jailed for 16 months for perverting the course of justice…
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Animal spirit A labrador blown up with her handler while sniffing for bombs in Afghanistan in 2008 became the 64th…
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Done a runner Mami Konneh Lahun, a 24-year-old athlete from Sierra Leone, went missing after finishing as the 20th-placed woman…
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Flat pack Some facts about Glasgow’s Red Road Flats, built in 1968, which are to be demolished as part of…
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Escapology This week marked the 70th anniversary of the Great Escape, when 76 Allied servicemen tunnelled out of Stalag Luft…
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Plane vanished Some other planes, besides Flight MH370, which have disappeared without trace: — A Boeing 727 cargo plane that…
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Years of war Imaginative souls have tried to compared the situation in Ukraine with that which preceded the first world…
