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0catherinebennett | 2UK | B> Why have we read so little about David Blunkett in recent days? </B><BR> Rightly or wrongly, many newspapers have taken the view that Blunkett and his latest crime-busting initiative are of less immediate interest to their readers than the scandal which now threatens to engulf the royal family - for another week, at... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | B> Why have we read so little about David Blunkett in recent days? </B><BR> Rightly or wrongly, many newspapers have taken the view that Blunkett and his latest crime-busting initiative are of less immediate interest to their readers than the scandal which now threatens to engulf the royal family - for another week, at... |
0catherinebennett | 2UK | In a speech this week, Prince Charles suggested that people remember not to fill their kettles too full. Here he explains why: It seems to me that most people instinctively understand that to make a cup of tea it is not necessary to boil an entire kettle! And I, for one, simply cannot sit here and do nothing while, al... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | In a speech this week, Prince Charles suggested that people remember not to fill their kettles too full. Here he explains why: It seems to me that most people instinctively understand that to make a cup of tea it is not necessary to boil an entire kettle! And I, for one, simply cannot sit here and do nothing while, al... |
3jonathanfreedland | 2UK | If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That's been the rallying cry of the defenders of our ancient, unwritten constitution through the ages - if not always in those words. Sure, say the old guard, our patchwork quilt of unspoken custom and tacit tradition may not make logical sense when set out on a clean sheet of paper - t... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That's been the rallying cry of the defenders of our ancient, unwritten constitution through the ages - if not always in those words. Sure, say the old guard, our patchwork quilt of unspoken custom and tacit tradition may not make logical sense when set out on a clean sheet of paper - t... |
3jonathanfreedland | 2UK | We know it's gripping. We know it's fun. But does it really matter? And does it matter enough to justify the current media hyperventilation about "the greatest crisis for the royal family since the abdication of 1936"? Certainly not, says constitutional historian and stout royalist Vernon Bogdanor: "It's a storm in a t... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | We know it's gripping. We know it's fun. But does it really matter? And does it matter enough to justify the current media hyperventilation about "the greatest crisis for the royal family since the abdication of 1936"? Certainly not, says constitutional historian and stout royalist Vernon Bogdanor: "It's a storm in a t... |
3jonathanfreedland | 2UK | William Hague had a dose of it yesterday, just as Tony Blair had before him. Neither of them would have been surprised: after all, it has become the quasi-divine right of party leaders to be swamped in the ovations and adulations of their party conference. But one man will have no such luck. David Trimble will not be f... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | William Hague had a dose of it yesterday, just as Tony Blair had before him. Neither of them would have been surprised: after all, it has become the quasi-divine right of party leaders to be swamped in the ovations and adulations of their party conference. But one man will have no such luck. David Trimble will not be f... |
3jonathanfreedland | 2UK | London was once again a city of migrants yesterday. For the second time in two weeks, the capital's streets were filled not with the usual cars and buses but thick, snaking columns of people on the move.These refugees from the city did not march with wagons piled high or bundles on their back, but with suitcases on whe... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | London was once again a city of migrants yesterday. For the second time in two weeks, the capital's streets were filled not with the usual cars and buses but thick, snaking columns of people on the move.These refugees from the city did not march with wagons piled high or bundles on their back, but with suitcases on whe... |
3jonathanfreedland | 2UK | Sometimes an apology is easier to give than to receive. We all know it from our own lives. The one who says sorry can sit back, happy that the moral high ground is theirs, that they have done their bit. But the person who has been handed the apology, what can they do? They may not be ready to accept it; they may still ... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Sometimes an apology is easier to give than to receive. We all know it from our own lives. The one who says sorry can sit back, happy that the moral high ground is theirs, that they have done their bit. But the person who has been handed the apology, what can they do? They may not be ready to accept it; they may still ... |
3jonathanfreedland | 2UK | Tears, especially male ones, are becoming a frequent sight on British television. In the past week alone, several of the ambitious, thrusting men competing to be Alan Sugar's apprentice on BBC2 cracked under the stress and started welling up. Meanwhile, minor celebrities, worn down by the strain of singing pop duets fo... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Tears, especially male ones, are becoming a frequent sight on British television. In the past week alone, several of the ambitious, thrusting men competing to be Alan Sugar's apprentice on BBC2 cracked under the stress and started welling up. Meanwhile, minor celebrities, worn down by the strain of singing pop duets fo... |
3jonathanfreedland | 2UK | The list of victims is long. At the head of it should be the nearly 3m animals slaughtered and burned, along with the 68,000 cows, sheep and pigs set to follow them on to the funeral pyres. Next on the list would be the clutch of farmers who, despite 125m already pledged in compensation, will be driven out of business ... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | The list of victims is long. At the head of it should be the nearly 3m animals slaughtered and burned, along with the 68,000 cows, sheep and pigs set to follow them on to the funeral pyres. Next on the list would be the clutch of farmers who, despite 125m already pledged in compensation, will be driven out of business ... |
3jonathanfreedland | 2UK | The flames turning the night sky orange, the stench of burning flesh - no wonder the talk in the countryside is of apocalypse. "We are on the threshold of Armageddon," warns the National Farmers Union man in Devon, girding himself for another night of slaughter, another bonfire of the carcasses. It is, to be sure, a me... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | The flames turning the night sky orange, the stench of burning flesh - no wonder the talk in the countryside is of apocalypse. "We are on the threshold of Armageddon," warns the National Farmers Union man in Devon, girding himself for another night of slaughter, another bonfire of the carcasses. It is, to be sure, a me... |
3jonathanfreedland | 2UK | It is the question republicans have learned to fear. "All right then," says the smiling royalist, "let's say you go ahead and abolish the monarchy. What would you put in its place?" Variations of that question have proved lethal for reformers. In Britain the republican cause has been held back for years by two words: P... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | It is the question republicans have learned to fear. "All right then," says the smiling royalist, "let's say you go ahead and abolish the monarchy. What would you put in its place?" Variations of that question have proved lethal for reformers. In Britain the republican cause has been held back for years by two words: P... |
3jonathanfreedland | 2UK | We didn't see a kiss, nor the moment they were legally married - but we did at least catch a glimpse into the future. On Saturday we saw the court of Charles III. The wedding of the Prince of Wales to Camilla Parker Bowles was the most public gathering yet for a new establishment in waiting, the men and women who surro... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | We didn't see a kiss, nor the moment they were legally married - but we did at least catch a glimpse into the future. On Saturday we saw the court of Charles III. The wedding of the Prince of Wales to Camilla Parker Bowles was the most public gathering yet for a new establishment in waiting, the men and women who surro... |
11willhutton | 2UK | We're losing the art of public interaction. The spaces - from a public park to a forum for public exchange - where social debate and contemplation can take place are eroding before our eyes. Two very disparate and under-reported initiatives were launched last week, both rooted in this concern - precursors perhaps of th... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | We're losing the art of public interaction. The spaces - from a public park to a forum for public exchange - where social debate and contemplation can take place are eroding before our eyes. Two very disparate and under-reported initiatives were launched last week, both rooted in this concern - precursors perhaps of th... |
11willhutton | 2UK | Chelsea's new manager, Jos Mourinho, was signed last week for a reported 5 million a year, while Marks & Spencer's new chief executive, Stuart Rose, received a signing-on fee of 1.25m, and a base salary of 850,000 a year. Both were new records and if either man can bring the turnaround the two organisations seek, ... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Chelsea's new manager, Jos Mourinho, was signed last week for a reported 5 million a year, while Marks & Spencer's new chief executive, Stuart Rose, received a signing-on fee of 1.25m, and a base salary of 850,000 a year. Both were new records and if either man can bring the turnaround the two organisations seek, ... |
11willhutton | 2UK | These are fearful times. The fall in the birth rate across the West is testimony to a growing pessimism about the future; the menaces that together seem to make the good life unattainable range from fear that science is running amok to terrorism and climate change. Live for today and don't have children is a rallying c... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | These are fearful times. The fall in the birth rate across the West is testimony to a growing pessimism about the future; the menaces that together seem to make the good life unattainable range from fear that science is running amok to terrorism and climate change. Live for today and don't have children is a rallying c... |
11willhutton | 2UK | Dewsbury, New Southgate, Small Heath, Stockwell and, on Friday, the most telling pictures of all - the two suspected bombers appearing on the terrace of their Peabody Estate flat in west London. It's been a catalogue of familiar terrace and semi-detached houses intermingled with housing estate flats that seem indisting... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Dewsbury, New Southgate, Small Heath, Stockwell and, on Friday, the most telling pictures of all - the two suspected bombers appearing on the terrace of their Peabody Estate flat in west London. It's been a catalogue of familiar terrace and semi-detached houses intermingled with housing estate flats that seem indisting... |
11willhutton | 2UK | Spain has been as obsessed as we would have been - and as Denmark, Holland and Norway recently were. The security is suffocating; the speculation about the bride's dress endless; the interest overwhelming. Yesterday Crown Prince Felipe, scion of the Bourbons and heir to the Spanish throne, drove through the grid-locked... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Spain has been as obsessed as we would have been - and as Denmark, Holland and Norway recently were. The security is suffocating; the speculation about the bride's dress endless; the interest overwhelming. Yesterday Crown Prince Felipe, scion of the Bourbons and heir to the Spanish throne, drove through the grid-locked... |
8pollytoynbee | 2UK | In some quarters a faintly blank look of surprise greets news of the Guardian's republican stand. Why bother? Aren't there more pressing matters? Are there no poor children, disaster schools, desperate estates, over-crowded prisons?As the Queen trots down the Mall today in her gilded coach, the speech in her golden ret... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | In some quarters a faintly blank look of surprise greets news of the Guardian's republican stand. Why bother? Aren't there more pressing matters? Are there no poor children, disaster schools, desperate estates, over-crowded prisons?As the Queen trots down the Mall today in her gilded coach, the speech in her golden ret... |
8pollytoynbee | 2UK | In the early morning rush-hour yesterday not one other soul stepped off the train at Greenwich North: this architectural wonder of a new tube station was empty. Under a wide, windswept sky the dome's great peninsula on the Thames lies deserted. Richard Rogers's iridescent jellyfish hovers there as dazzling as ever with... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | In the early morning rush-hour yesterday not one other soul stepped off the train at Greenwich North: this architectural wonder of a new tube station was empty. Under a wide, windswept sky the dome's great peninsula on the Thames lies deserted. Richard Rogers's iridescent jellyfish hovers there as dazzling as ever with... |
8pollytoynbee | 2UK | Who started this "them and us" between town and country? The mis-named Countryside Alliance when they marched on London last year and later brayed outside the Labour party conference in Bournemouth.Yesterday the prime minister went to Devon and blew their cover. They are not "the countryside". They are a bunch of Tory ... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Who started this "them and us" between town and country? The mis-named Countryside Alliance when they marched on London last year and later brayed outside the Labour party conference in Bournemouth.Yesterday the prime minister went to Devon and blew their cover. They are not "the countryside". They are a bunch of Tory ... |
8pollytoynbee | 2UK | Round one - victory! The government has done the right thing and the dome gets another chance. Other bidders - now suddenly many more - can come forward and suggest something better than a disgraceful fire-sale at a knock-down price to property developers. It would have been the final scandal of the dome's history. The... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Round one - victory! The government has done the right thing and the dome gets another chance. Other bidders - now suddenly many more - can come forward and suggest something better than a disgraceful fire-sale at a knock-down price to property developers. It would have been the final scandal of the dome's history. The... |
8pollytoynbee | 2UK | The most remarkable aspect of William Hague's ill-judged outburst against the Macpherson report was his complete obliteration of what happened to Stephen Lawrence, what happened to the Lawrence family in their struggle for justice and finally what happened to the police who failed so abysmally to prosecute the killers.... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | The most remarkable aspect of William Hague's ill-judged outburst against the Macpherson report was his complete obliteration of what happened to Stephen Lawrence, what happened to the Lawrence family in their struggle for justice and finally what happened to the police who failed so abysmally to prosecute the killers.... |
6nickcohen | 2UK | The healthy reaction to the death of a great-grandmother of 100 or so from her family is one of resignation, even quiet relief. She's had a good innings - her three-score years and 10 and then another score and 10. No one wants her to die, but it is entirely human not to be disabled by grief at her passing when her sur... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | The healthy reaction to the death of a great-grandmother of 100 or so from her family is one of resignation, even quiet relief. She's had a good innings - her three-score years and 10 and then another score and 10. No one wants her to die, but it is entirely human not to be disabled by grief at her passing when her sur... |
6nickcohen | 2UK | As with so much else in Britain, whether or not you believe evil exists depends on your class. Readers of the popular papers have few difficulties accepting that terrible crimes from the murder of James Bulger to the serial killings of Harold Shipman can be explained by evil. But even bishops who read the broadsheets -... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | As with so much else in Britain, whether or not you believe evil exists depends on your class. Readers of the popular papers have few difficulties accepting that terrible crimes from the murder of James Bulger to the serial killings of Harold Shipman can be explained by evil. But even bishops who read the broadsheets -... |
6nickcohen | 2UK | The healthy reaction to the death of a great-grandmother of 100 or so from her family is one of resignation, even quiet relief. She's had a good innings - her three-score years and 10 and then another score and 10. No one wants her to die, but it is entirely human not to be disabled by grief at her passing when her sur... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | The healthy reaction to the death of a great-grandmother of 100 or so from her family is one of resignation, even quiet relief. She's had a good innings - her three-score years and 10 and then another score and 10. No one wants her to die, but it is entirely human not to be disabled by grief at her passing when her sur... |
6nickcohen | 2UK | b>The following correction was printed in the Observer's For the record column, Sunday July 17 2005</b><br><br>The comment piece below was wrong to say that the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was 'delighted' at the attack on the World Trade Centre, describing it as 'a great work of art'. In fact, Stockhausen made a sta... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | b>The following correction was printed in the Observer's For the record column, Sunday July 17 2005</b><br><br>The comment piece below was wrong to say that the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was 'delighted' at the attack on the World Trade Centre, describing it as 'a great work of art'. In fact, Stockhausen made a sta... |
6nickcohen | 2UK | What should be done with Maff?" cried Ian Willmore, media coordinator for Friends of the Earth. '"What should be done with Maff? Maff should be shot in the head, dumped in a trench, fried to a cinder, sprinkled with quicklime and buried with a stake through its heart, that's what should be done with Maff ...and you can... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | What should be done with Maff?" cried Ian Willmore, media coordinator for Friends of the Earth. '"What should be done with Maff? Maff should be shot in the head, dumped in a trench, fried to a cinder, sprinkled with quicklime and buried with a stake through its heart, that's what should be done with Maff ...and you can... |
6nickcohen | 2UK | At the height of the fuel crisis, Margaret Beckett denounced that part of conservative Britain which tolerated elections only when they brought victories to the Right. 'There is a group of people in this country who passionately believe... that there is something terribly, terribly wrong about having a Labour governmen... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | At the height of the fuel crisis, Margaret Beckett denounced that part of conservative Britain which tolerated elections only when they brought victories to the Right. 'There is a group of people in this country who passionately believe... that there is something terribly, terribly wrong about having a Labour governmen... |
6nickcohen | 2UK | In one of their few decision which could be described as being made on the grounds of good taste, the organisers of the Millennium Dome rejected a plan to exhibit 'Piss Flowers' by Helen Chadwick, a series of bronze moulds taken from cavities left after she had risked hypothermia for her art by peeing in the snow durin... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | In one of their few decision which could be described as being made on the grounds of good taste, the organisers of the Millennium Dome rejected a plan to exhibit 'Piss Flowers' by Helen Chadwick, a series of bronze moulds taken from cavities left after she had risked hypothermia for her art by peeing in the snow durin... |
5maryriddell | 2UK | The monarchy begins 2004 on a reformist note. Florence, one of Princess Anne's English bull terriers, is to go into therapy after biting a maid. The Princess Royal, who will accompany her alter ego to discipline classes, has recognised that Florence may be sniffing at the fate meted out to the Romanovs and Bourbons. De... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | The monarchy begins 2004 on a reformist note. Florence, one of Princess Anne's English bull terriers, is to go into therapy after biting a maid. The Princess Royal, who will accompany her alter ego to discipline classes, has recognised that Florence may be sniffing at the fate meted out to the Romanovs and Bourbons. De... |
5maryriddell | 2UK | Like many bridegrooms, Prince Charles spent the run-up to his wedding in male company, saying things he might regret the next day. But, far from being a stag party, this was the sober annual ritual in which the prince and his two sons break their winter holiday in Klosters to take questions from the media. Through weld... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Like many bridegrooms, Prince Charles spent the run-up to his wedding in male company, saying things he might regret the next day. But, far from being a stag party, this was the sober annual ritual in which the prince and his two sons break their winter holiday in Klosters to take questions from the media. Through weld... |
5maryriddell | 2UK | Walter Bagehot's edict that daylight should never shine on the magic of royalty is back in vogue. Not that much lustre attaches to an institution now darkened by a scandal of which we should not know. Officially, we have been told only that one subject of the rumour is Michael Fawcett, former toothpaste-squeezer to the... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Walter Bagehot's edict that daylight should never shine on the magic of royalty is back in vogue. Not that much lustre attaches to an institution now darkened by a scandal of which we should not know. Officially, we have been told only that one subject of the rumour is Michael Fawcett, former toothpaste-squeezer to the... |
5maryriddell | 2UK | Thursday. A man moves through a tube station. His CCTV image suggests a handbag-snatcher, but this thief's alleged haul of choice is human lives. A bombing mission has ended in failure or, as politically correct teachers are now being urged to say, deferred success. The attackers are planning to come back. The capital'... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Thursday. A man moves through a tube station. His CCTV image suggests a handbag-snatcher, but this thief's alleged haul of choice is human lives. A bombing mission has ended in failure or, as politically correct teachers are now being urged to say, deferred success. The attackers are planning to come back. The capital'... |
5maryriddell | 2UK | The Daily Star's initial verdict on Charles and Camilla was too downbeat. 'Boring Old Gits to Wed' does not do justice to a legal maelstrom featuring a register office boycott by the Queen, who has allegedly also shelved plans for a banquet. Instead, the sporran polishers of the royal household will be rustling up bite... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | The Daily Star's initial verdict on Charles and Camilla was too downbeat. 'Boring Old Gits to Wed' does not do justice to a legal maelstrom featuring a register office boycott by the Queen, who has allegedly also shelved plans for a banquet. Instead, the sporran polishers of the royal household will be rustling up bite... |
5maryriddell | 2UK | Highgrove is never going to look like the set of Shameless. Even so, the backdrop for Prince Harry's television interview was curious. Rather than picking some classless patch of organic curly kale or a ditch similar to the one in which the soldier-prince planned to spend his 21st birthday, the palace impresarios chose... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Highgrove is never going to look like the set of Shameless. Even so, the backdrop for Prince Harry's television interview was curious. Rather than picking some classless patch of organic curly kale or a ditch similar to the one in which the soldier-prince planned to spend his 21st birthday, the palace impresarios chose... |
5maryriddell | 2UK | B> The following correction appeared in the Observer's For the Record column, Sunday May 23 2004</B><BR><BR>'A bit rich, but no class' (Comment, below) said 'they shirk the philanthropy of their American counterparts, from Rockefeller and Carnegie onwards', Andrew Carnegie was actually a Scotsman, born in Dunfermline, ... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | B> The following correction appeared in the Observer's For the Record column, Sunday May 23 2004</B><BR><BR>'A bit rich, but no class' (Comment, below) said 'they shirk the philanthropy of their American counterparts, from Rockefeller and Carnegie onwards', Andrew Carnegie was actually a Scotsman, born in Dunfermline, ... |
5maryriddell | 2UK | As if it had not done enough apologising, the BBC has issued another mea culpa. Stars of the Beechgrove Potting Shed, a Radio Scotland phone-in gardening programme, had to say sorry after advising listeners how to propagate Amsterdam's favourite strain of cannabis. The presenters had thought the caller was talking ab... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | As if it had not done enough apologising, the BBC has issued another mea culpa. Stars of the Beechgrove Potting Shed, a Radio Scotland phone-in gardening programme, had to say sorry after advising listeners how to propagate Amsterdam's favourite strain of cannabis. The presenters had thought the caller was talking ab... |
5maryriddell | 2UK | The symbol of this Christmas is the noose. Hang my son, says Ian Huntley's mother. Hang Saddam, says almost everyone. The gallows is not an option for Maxine Carr, who is due out of jail next May. The relatively minor nature of her sin, a crime of lies and silence, has not prevented Maxine-haters placing her in a conti... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | The symbol of this Christmas is the noose. Hang my son, says Ian Huntley's mother. Hang Saddam, says almost everyone. The gallows is not an option for Maxine Carr, who is due out of jail next May. The relatively minor nature of her sin, a crime of lies and silence, has not prevented Maxine-haters placing her in a conti... |
5maryriddell | 2UK | Today, and for many mornings to come, Linda Walker will be waking up in Styal prison, in Cheshire. There are better places to spend a Sunday. Six women killed themselves there in the space of a year and 41 tried to hang themselves over the last Mother's Day weekend. Mrs Walker, 48, is a teacher and head of year at a sc... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Today, and for many mornings to come, Linda Walker will be waking up in Styal prison, in Cheshire. There are better places to spend a Sunday. Six women killed themselves there in the space of a year and 41 tried to hang themselves over the last Mother's Day weekend. Mrs Walker, 48, is a teacher and head of year at a sc... |
7peterpreston | 2UK | Nobody, of course, can go back to the beginning. That is an Irish legend lost among the bogs and mists of futility. But, as the chimera called "peace" slips and slides again, it is at least worth going back to the beginning of these Troubles (more modern than ancient). What did the British government think then? We kno... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Nobody, of course, can go back to the beginning. That is an Irish legend lost among the bogs and mists of futility. But, as the chimera called "peace" slips and slides again, it is at least worth going back to the beginning of these Troubles (more modern than ancient). What did the British government think then? We kno... |
7peterpreston | 2UK | Your starter for 10, Herr von Ribbentrop...How, one fine day, will the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (UK division) come to dust? How will our royals reach the end of their line? It's a perennial question for historians, politicians, spooks. The trouble is that the answer keeps changing. After 1936 - the closest shave so f... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Your starter for 10, Herr von Ribbentrop...How, one fine day, will the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (UK division) come to dust? How will our royals reach the end of their line? It's a perennial question for historians, politicians, spooks. The trouble is that the answer keeps changing. After 1936 - the closest shave so f... |
7peterpreston | 2UK | There is hard news and soft news, according to the sainted John Humphrys. (He likes the hard stuff; his BBC employers have gone soft at Six). But you can split categories of news every which way - including, as Mo Mowlam might add, real news; the news where reality bites. Consider: I'm sitting a few weeks ago with a ve... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | There is hard news and soft news, according to the sainted John Humphrys. (He likes the hard stuff; his BBC employers have gone soft at Six). But you can split categories of news every which way - including, as Mo Mowlam might add, real news; the news where reality bites. Consider: I'm sitting a few weeks ago with a ve... |
7peterpreston | 2UK | Think of life as a twoway Mirror. On the one side, as we shall discover this week, stands the erstwhile editor of the Daily Eponymous, keeping a beady-eyed diary for rapid sale and Fleet Street serialisation. Piers Morgan dubs Cherie Blair "breathtakingly capricious and vindictive" (she's not much turned on by Piers) -... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Think of life as a twoway Mirror. On the one side, as we shall discover this week, stands the erstwhile editor of the Daily Eponymous, keeping a beady-eyed diary for rapid sale and Fleet Street serialisation. Piers Morgan dubs Cherie Blair "breathtakingly capricious and vindictive" (she's not much turned on by Piers) -... |
7peterpreston | 2UK | She invited a few of them in for supper the other day - the five surviving prime ministers from her 50 occasionally glorious years. Polite chitchat and photocalls. But what does she really think of them, and their five dead predecessors? How do they and their policies look from her seat in the royal circle? And "circle... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | She invited a few of them in for supper the other day - the five surviving prime ministers from her 50 occasionally glorious years. Polite chitchat and photocalls. But what does she really think of them, and their five dead predecessors? How do they and their policies look from her seat in the royal circle? And "circle... |
7peterpreston | 2UK | He could have been almost anything he wanted for at least two or three productive decades. He could have had a career, made a name in his own right as uncle Linley has done, used the education bought for him at high price and the intelligence that came to him naturally. But instead he did the boring, banal thing. He ch... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | He could have been almost anything he wanted for at least two or three productive decades. He could have had a career, made a name in his own right as uncle Linley has done, used the education bought for him at high price and the intelligence that came to him naturally. But instead he did the boring, banal thing. He ch... |
7peterpreston | 2UK | The News of the World heaves with self-righteous anger. Mr Richard Desmond's fine Daily Star bathes in fury. The words of James Bulger's mother Denise are spread large across every sheet and TV station in the land: "I know that no matter where they go, someone out there is waiting." It is difficult not to feel ashamed ... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | The News of the World heaves with self-righteous anger. Mr Richard Desmond's fine Daily Star bathes in fury. The words of James Bulger's mother Denise are spread large across every sheet and TV station in the land: "I know that no matter where they go, someone out there is waiting." It is difficult not to feel ashamed ... |
7peterpreston | 2UK | After the perils of Pauline, the triumphs of Trimble. And with yet another bound, our unlikely hero is free, until the next time. The peace process is saved: mainland Britain switches its attention over to England against Brazil: Peter Mandelson prepares to concentrate on the next election campaign. A crisis averted be... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | After the perils of Pauline, the triumphs of Trimble. And with yet another bound, our unlikely hero is free, until the next time. The peace process is saved: mainland Britain switches its attention over to England against Brazil: Peter Mandelson prepares to concentrate on the next election campaign. A crisis averted be... |
7peterpreston | 2UK | There's nothing like five weeks in court - as I spent with the Hamiltons - for making you feel utterly puny. Up in the witness box or down with the groundlings, the litany seems the same. "I can't remember." "I have no memory of that." "I have no such recollection." "I definitely have no such recollection." What happen... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | There's nothing like five weeks in court - as I spent with the Hamiltons - for making you feel utterly puny. Up in the witness box or down with the groundlings, the litany seems the same. "I can't remember." "I have no memory of that." "I have no such recollection." "I definitely have no such recollection." What happen... |
7peterpreston | 2UK | The inquiry evidence is clear enough. There was totally unacceptable violence: "whipping on the soles of the feet, burning with lighted cigarettes". Victims had "leather thongs tied round their necks and were dragged along the ground". Perhaps 170 more prisoners were involved: at least 32 emerged badly injured. Another... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | The inquiry evidence is clear enough. There was totally unacceptable violence: "whipping on the soles of the feet, burning with lighted cigarettes". Victims had "leather thongs tied round their necks and were dragged along the ground". Perhaps 170 more prisoners were involved: at least 32 emerged badly injured. Another... |
2hugoyoung | 2UK | The Millennium Dome is out of sight. Down there in Greenwich, it's a long way from being in your face, even for most Londoners. For the nation, on whose children the prime minister once said the dome should confer "memories so strong that it gives them that abiding sense of purpose and unity that stays with them throug... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | The Millennium Dome is out of sight. Down there in Greenwich, it's a long way from being in your face, even for most Londoners. For the nation, on whose children the prime minister once said the dome should confer "memories so strong that it gives them that abiding sense of purpose and unity that stays with them throug... |
2hugoyoung | 2UK | Tony Martin should never have been sentenced to life imprisonment. Punishing the Norfolk farmer in this way is an outrage. It offends any sane person's instincts about the meaning of justice. On the spectrum of heinous murders it places Martin at the same point as the Yorkshire Ripper, which is plainly unacceptable. Al... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Tony Martin should never have been sentenced to life imprisonment. Punishing the Norfolk farmer in this way is an outrage. It offends any sane person's instincts about the meaning of justice. On the spectrum of heinous murders it places Martin at the same point as the Yorkshire Ripper, which is plainly unacceptable. Al... |
2hugoyoung | 2UK | It is hard to believe the Northern Ireland peace process may yet founder. Such a collapse would affront many histories of evolution from civil war to political peace all over the world. The process has come so far. Yet this, of course, is the very reason why, in the end game, the deal may not stick. The rejectionism th... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | It is hard to believe the Northern Ireland peace process may yet founder. Such a collapse would affront many histories of evolution from civil war to political peace all over the world. The process has come so far. Yet this, of course, is the very reason why, in the end game, the deal may not stick. The rejectionism th... |
2hugoyoung | 2UK | Down at the wire, the word that fits the Trimble/Adams stand-off is a strange one. Artificial. That's the sense that screams from the positions taken by either side. Both are gripped by what they see as matters of inalienable substance: the substance of arms, of lifelong passion, of sanctified conviction, of justified ... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Down at the wire, the word that fits the Trimble/Adams stand-off is a strange one. Artificial. That's the sense that screams from the positions taken by either side. Both are gripped by what they see as matters of inalienable substance: the substance of arms, of lifelong passion, of sanctified conviction, of justified ... |
2hugoyoung | 2UK | The politics of law and order are entirely about spin. Not just partly. Entirely. There is no field of political conflict where impression more fully eclipses reality. The two may not always be at odds. Some impressions are correct. Crime has doubled over the last 20 years, for example. That is a fact. Politicians' bel... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | The politics of law and order are entirely about spin. Not just partly. Entirely. There is no field of political conflict where impression more fully eclipses reality. The two may not always be at odds. Some impressions are correct. Crime has doubled over the last 20 years, for example. That is a fact. Politicians' bel... |
1georgemonbiot | 2UK | The most interesting aspect of France's BSE scandal is that it makes no sense at all. Britain stopped exporting contaminated cattle feed to Europe in 1991 (though we continued sending it to the third world until 1996). In most other EU countries cases have already peaked and declined, as expected. But in France, the nu... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | The most interesting aspect of France's BSE scandal is that it makes no sense at all. Britain stopped exporting contaminated cattle feed to Europe in 1991 (though we continued sending it to the third world until 1996). In most other EU countries cases have already peaked and declined, as expected. But in France, the nu... |
1georgemonbiot | 2UK | A few days ago, after a furious argument, I was thrown out of a wood where I have walked for more than 20 years. I must admit that I did not behave very well. As I walked away I did something I haven't done for a long time: I gave the gamekeeper a one-fingered salute. In my defence, I would plead that I was overcome wi... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | A few days ago, after a furious argument, I was thrown out of a wood where I have walked for more than 20 years. I must admit that I did not behave very well. As I walked away I did something I haven't done for a long time: I gave the gamekeeper a one-fingered salute. In my defence, I would plead that I was overcome wi... |
1georgemonbiot | 2UK | Injudicious as Neil Hamilton's misdemeanors were, they were only the flotsam on the tide of Tory sleaze. Houses were boarded up to change voting patterns, false certificates were used to evade arms embargoes and palms were greased to help secure foreign contracts. Conservative corruption left such a broad tideline that... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Injudicious as Neil Hamilton's misdemeanors were, they were only the flotsam on the tide of Tory sleaze. Houses were boarded up to change voting patterns, false certificates were used to evade arms embargoes and palms were greased to help secure foreign contracts. Conservative corruption left such a broad tideline that... |
4martinkettle | 2UK | At a time like this Sir Ian Blair can perhaps be excused his historical exaggeration. The hunt for the London suicide bombers, the Scotland Yard commissioner says, is the biggest challenge that the Metropolitan police have ever faced.I'm sorry, Sir Ian, but that's just not true. Bigger than Chartism? Bigger than the Fe... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | At a time like this Sir Ian Blair can perhaps be excused his historical exaggeration. The hunt for the London suicide bombers, the Scotland Yard commissioner says, is the biggest challenge that the Metropolitan police have ever faced.I'm sorry, Sir Ian, but that's just not true. Bigger than Chartism? Bigger than the Fe... |
4martinkettle | 2UK | On Sunday we had an evening of rum, sodomy and the lash. Last night it was followed by amputations without anaesthetic and gutters running with blood. Quite a bank holiday weekend. Certainly nobody can accuse Channel 4 of offering an airbrushed version of the Nelson bicentenary in its schedules this week.But Channel 4 ... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | On Sunday we had an evening of rum, sodomy and the lash. Last night it was followed by amputations without anaesthetic and gutters running with blood. Quite a bank holiday weekend. Certainly nobody can accuse Channel 4 of offering an airbrushed version of the Nelson bicentenary in its schedules this week.But Channel 4 ... |
4martinkettle | 2UK | Every year in this country, several hundred people are murdered. Of the hundreds, only a minority are ever widely reported. Of the minority, only a handful imprint themselves upon the psyche of a nation. And of the handful, only one or two in a decade become so infamous that they become the emblematic murders of their ... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Every year in this country, several hundred people are murdered. Of the hundreds, only a minority are ever widely reported. Of the minority, only a handful imprint themselves upon the psyche of a nation. And of the handful, only one or two in a decade become so infamous that they become the emblematic murders of their ... |
9royhattersley | 2UK | We had a traditional Christmas. The pilot light went out in the boiler. My mother was bad-tempered. The giblets made the dog sick. Sheffield Wednesday lost. But one unexpected incident shone more brightly than the star in the east. Princess Anne's behaviour immediately after she had celebrated the birth of the Prince o... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | We had a traditional Christmas. The pilot light went out in the boiler. My mother was bad-tempered. The giblets made the dog sick. Sheffield Wednesday lost. But one unexpected incident shone more brightly than the star in the east. Princess Anne's behaviour immediately after she had celebrated the birth of the Prince o... |
9royhattersley | 2UK | Last Tuesday morning, every national newspaper - including the Guardian - made the Soham murder trial its front-page lead. Some of the headlines were written in taut American colloquialisms, which, as well as saving space, convey an impression of dramatic urgency. The Manchester United replica shirts, in which Holly We... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Last Tuesday morning, every national newspaper - including the Guardian - made the Soham murder trial its front-page lead. Some of the headlines were written in taut American colloquialisms, which, as well as saving space, convey an impression of dramatic urgency. The Manchester United replica shirts, in which Holly We... |
9royhattersley | 2UK | Driving north with an indomitable determination to allow neither floods nor Railtrack to cut me off from civilisation, I listened to a radio programme in which Michael Wills MP admitted that the prime minister had given him a special task. He is to encourage other members of the government to pay special respect to our... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Driving north with an indomitable determination to allow neither floods nor Railtrack to cut me off from civilisation, I listened to a radio programme in which Michael Wills MP admitted that the prime minister had given him a special task. He is to encourage other members of the government to pay special respect to our... |
9royhattersley | 2UK | The issue is no longer foxhunting. From now on the argument is about the rule of law. I make no secret of my belief that a civilised society should not allow an amusement which has as its object - or at least its known consequence - the death of an animal. If the right to hunt foxes is a question of civil liberties, so... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | The issue is no longer foxhunting. From now on the argument is about the rule of law. I make no secret of my belief that a civilised society should not allow an amusement which has as its object - or at least its known consequence - the death of an animal. If the right to hunt foxes is a question of civil liberties, so... |
9royhattersley | 2UK | If, as the Queen tells us, "there are powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge", how does she know about them? The answer to that conundrum is that there is no answer. Nothing about the monarchy is rational. We inhabit a Ruritanian fantasy in which the parliamentary year begins with the monarch -... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | If, as the Queen tells us, "there are powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge", how does she know about them? The answer to that conundrum is that there is no answer. Nothing about the monarchy is rational. We inhabit a Ruritanian fantasy in which the parliamentary year begins with the monarch -... |
9royhattersley | 2UK | Republicans are, or ought to be, against the monarchy on principle. The extravagant lifestyle of the royal family and the louche behaviour of wastrel princelings prejudice the public against the House of Windsor. But the only important argument concerns blood and birth. It is neither right nor reasonable that, at the b... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Republicans are, or ought to be, against the monarchy on principle. The extravagant lifestyle of the royal family and the louche behaviour of wastrel princelings prejudice the public against the House of Windsor. But the only important argument concerns blood and birth. It is neither right nor reasonable that, at the b... |
9royhattersley | 2UK | I have managed, with very little effort, to survive a year of two royal funerals and one golden jubilee without ever experiencing any of the emotions that the tabloid newspapers regarded as the mark of loyalty and patriotism. But today I feel a profound sympathy for the Princess Royal. Until yesterday, the mention of h... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | I have managed, with very little effort, to survive a year of two royal funerals and one golden jubilee without ever experiencing any of the emotions that the tabloid newspapers regarded as the mark of loyalty and patriotism. But today I feel a profound sympathy for the Princess Royal. Until yesterday, the mention of h... |
9royhattersley | 2UK | Allegations that the BBC is part of an international Marxist conspiracy have always seemed to me to be the feverish product of demented rightwing imagination. An organisation which cannot arrange taxis to take home Newsnight contributors is unlikely to play a significant part in a plot to take over the world. But last ... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | Allegations that the BBC is part of an international Marxist conspiracy have always seemed to me to be the feverish product of demented rightwing imagination. An organisation which cannot arrange taxis to take home Newsnight contributors is unlikely to play a significant part in a plot to take over the world. But last ... |
9royhattersley | 2UK | It would be wrong to pretend that I was not pleased to join the privy council. In truth I was delighted. After "shadowing" Margaret Thatcher for three years, I had hoped to replace her at the Department of Education. But Harold Wilson, offended by a speech in which I had attacked the public schools, exiled me to the Fo... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | It would be wrong to pretend that I was not pleased to join the privy council. In truth I was delighted. After "shadowing" Margaret Thatcher for three years, I had hoped to replace her at the Department of Education. But Harold Wilson, offended by a speech in which I had attacked the public schools, exiled me to the Fo... |
9royhattersley | 2UK | It is my good fortune to spend half my life in one of the Peak District's pedestrian villages. We boast neither a car park nor a historic church. So we are spared both bikers whiling away their afternoons by revving up their engines and motorists who think that they have done their duty to culture and the countryside b... | article_from_topic | Generate an article on the topic of {{[
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{{article}} | Generate an article on the topic of UK. | It is my good fortune to spend half my life in one of the Peak District's pedestrian villages. We boast neither a car park nor a historic church. So we are spared both bikers whiling away their afternoons by revving up their engines and motorists who think that they have done their duty to culture and the countryside b... |
12zoewilliams | 2UK | To be honest, I rarely believe the Queen when she addresses the nation; the Christmas number is too much of a duty call, and when she has anything to do with parliament, she always looks slightly sour - as we all would, I'm sure, were we required to endorse absolutely everything, while still pretending to be in charge ... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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12zoewilliams | 2UK | Andrew Mackinlay MP tabled a question in parliament last week that only a Christian and a royalist could possibly have dreamed up: was Camilla Parker Bowles going to be added by royal warrant to the state prayers? These prayers are said in many churches (who'd have thought?), included Diana until 1996 (who knew?) and n... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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Andrew Mackinlay MP tabled a question in parliament last week that only a Christian and a royalist could possibly have dreamed up: was Camilla Parker Bowles going to be added by royal warrant to the state prayers? These pray... | UK |
12zoewilliams | 2UK | It's a tough call for the policemen in charge of royal protection on the occasion of the family's big shindig. On the one hand, if the amiable hippies in charge of Glastonbury can get their heads around a ticket-only entry system, law enforcement officers of far more advanced jobsworth tendencies should have been able ... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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It's a tough call for the policemen in charge of royal protection on the occasion of the family's big shindig. On the one hand, if the amiable hippies in charge of Glastonbury can get their heads around a ticket-only entry s... | UK |
12zoewilliams | 2UK | When the slings and arrows of the lottery deliver up a fortune that is truly outrageous, as onlookers we immediately try to wrestle it into a narrative. Without a narrative, it is just a wonderful stroke of life-changing luck that happened to some other people and didn't happen to us. That's just nauseating you can't ... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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When the slings and arrows of the lottery deliver up a fortune that is truly outrageous, as onlookers we immediately try to wrestle it into a narrative. Without a narrative, it is just a wonderful stroke of life-changing luc... | UK |
12zoewilliams | 2UK | Prince Philip has done something unprecedented. He has denied, in the strongest possible terms, that he ever called Princess Di a trollop or a harlot in any of his letters to her. This is not very regal behaviour, entering into a media mudfight, but apparently his hands were tied - Prince William had given him an ultim... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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Prince Philip has done something unprecedented. He has denied, in the strongest possible terms, that he ever called Princess Di a trollop or a harlot in any of his letters to her. This is not very regal behaviour, entering i... | UK |
12zoewilliams | 2UK | It's Prince Harry's birth-month; he's 21, you know. One time, when he was younger, he drank quite a lot, and his father made some noises about putting him in rehab. Now we're talking about it, I can't remember whether or not he did go to rehab, but I remember thinking it was the most ludicrous thing I'd ever heard, put... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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It's Prince Harry's birth-month; he's 21, you know. One time, when he was younger, he drank quite a lot, and his father made some noises about putting him in rehab. Now we're talking about it, I can't remember whether or not... | UK |
10simonhoggart | 2UK | Up early to go to Belfast for the historic first meeting of the new Northern Ireland executive. Peter Mandelson is on the radio, sounding historic. He asks us to reflect on the "enormity" of what has happened this week. I check it in the OED: "enormity - a monstrous wickedness, a crime or monstrous offence." Another wo... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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Up early to go to Belfast for the historic first meeting of the new Northern Ireland executive. Peter Mandelson is on the radio, sounding historic. He asks us to reflect on the "enormity" of what has happened this week. I ch... | UK |
10simonhoggart | 2UK | Gordon Brown arrived on the front bench in the Commons, laughing and joking with Tony Blair. Laughing and joking? With Tony Blair? Things must be desperate. The prime minister was about to shaft him. And so he did. Shortly after that he told us to expect a referendum on membership of the euro within - he implied - tw... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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Gordon Brown arrived on the front bench in the Commons, laughing and joking with Tony Blair. Laughing and joking? With Tony Blair? Things must be desperate. The prime minister was about to shaft him. And so he did. Shortly a... | UK |
10simonhoggart | 2UK | The House discussed the leaking of the Stephen Lawrence report yesterday. Here was a crucially important document whose contents go to the roots of our national malaise. So naturally, it was the opportunity for a gigantic festival of hypocrisy, an orgy of cant, a saturnalia of double-speak. We heard a government min... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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The House discussed the leaking of the Stephen Lawrence report yesterday. Here was a crucially important document whose contents go to the roots of our national malaise. So naturally, it was the opportunity for a gigantic f... | UK |
10simonhoggart | 2UK | This week I was asked to write a chapter for a book about journalism, and I jokily emailed to say my fee would be £10,000. The commissioning editor wrote back to say that was a relief; the publishers had feared I might demand £10,000 per word.But I suspect something like that must have happened when Jonatha... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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This week I was asked to write a chapter for a book about journalism, and I jokily emailed to say my fee would be £10,000. The commissioning editor wrote back to say that was a relief; the publishers had feared I might... | UK |
10simonhoggart | 2UK | The Tories are trying to turn Northern Ireland into a party political issue. They know they shouldn't really, but they just can't stop themselves.
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The Tories are trying to turn Northern Ireland into a party political issue. They know they shouldn't really, but they just can't stop themselves. | UK |
10simonhoggart | 2UK | John Prescott paid a welcome visit to the House of Commons yesterday to launch his department's new white paper, Our Towns And Cities: The Future. This is a classic New Labour document, being printed on glossy paper and illustrated with colour pictures of the Elysium which is the new Britain. Happy people, many from et... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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John Prescott paid a welcome visit to the House of Commons yesterday to launch his department's new white paper, Our Towns And Cities: The Future. This is a classic New Labour document, being printed on glossy paper and illu... | UK |
0catherinebennett | 2UK | In its latest bulletin from the frontiers of mental health research, the Daily Mail reports that Prince Charles seems to be, tragically, losing his tenuous hold on sanity, smashing china and losing his temper. "So just what is wrong with the Prince of Wales," probed Richard Kay. Well, it's pretty obvious isn't it? He's... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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In its latest bulletin from the frontiers of mental health research, the Daily Mail reports that Prince Charles seems to be, tragically, losing his tenuous hold on sanity, smashing china and losing his temper. "So just what ... | UK |
0catherinebennett | 2UK | In further sensational, never previously broadcast interviews, Princess Diana describes events which will astonish the public and cast yet further doubts on her husband's fitness to rule. The recordings were made by her voice coach, Peter Pension-Scheme, whose teaching methods included immortalising the Princess on com... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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In further sensational, never previously broadcast interviews, Princess Diana describes events which will astonish the public and cast yet further doubts on her husband's fitness to rule. The recordings were made by her voic... | UK |
0catherinebennett | 2UK | In Blandings Castle and Elsewhere, PG Wodehouse recorded the sterling response of Beach, the butler, on discovering Lord Emsworth's son in a drawing room with a sack of rats in his hand. "With a murmured apology, he secured the sack and started to withdraw. It was not strictly his duty to carry rats, but a good butler ... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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In Blandings Castle and Elsewhere, PG Wodehouse recorded the sterling response of Beach, the butler, on discovering Lord Emsworth's son in a drawing room with a sack of rats in his hand. "With a murmured apology, he secured ... | UK |
0catherinebennett | 2UK | For loyal followers of Prince Charles's career, Mark Bolland's statement only confirmed something that became evident years ago, even before Jonathan Dimbleby's biography and television documentary introduced us to the suffering, misunderstood outsider who is our future king. As long ago as 1982, in one of my favourite... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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For loyal followers of Prince Charles's career, Mark Bolland's statement only confirmed something that became evident years ago, even before Jonathan Dimbleby's biography and television documentary introduced us to the suffe... | UK |
0catherinebennett | 2UK | As with Diana's death, so with her inquest: it is impossible to predict how customarily sober, hysteria-proof individuals will react. In 1997 one soon learned not to ridicule the mass keening, just in case a formerly dependable fellow cynic turned out to be a born-again vigil-fancier. Today, while people who should kno... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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As with Diana's death, so with her inquest: it is impossible to predict how customarily sober, hysteria-proof individuals will react. In 1997 one soon learned not to ridicule the mass keening, just in case a formerly dependa... | UK |
0catherinebennett | 2UK | If the public, as Lord Justice Scott Baker declared this week, really does have "concerns" about the death of Princess Diana, it has a funny way of showing it. For all the "groundless suspicion" which, according to the judge, still exists in minds of many people, scarcely any of these haunted individuals turned up in c... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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If the public, as Lord Justice Scott Baker declared this week, really does have "concerns" about the death of Princess Diana, it has a funny way of showing it. For all the "groundless suspicion" which, according to the judge... | UK |
0catherinebennett | 2UK | Since the American showman David Blaine believes himself to be the new Houdini, it follows that he should, like his more gifted predecessor, have decided to bring his tricks to London. It was, says Ruth Brandon in her biography of Houdini, the reception of his manacle escapes on the London stage that confirmed his "utt... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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Since the American showman David Blaine believes himself to be the new Houdini, it follows that he should, like his more gifted predecessor, have decided to bring his tricks to London. It was, says Ruth Brandon in her biogra... | UK |
0catherinebennett | 2UK | If the government is to persuade us, contrary to appearances, of its determination to end discrimination against older people, it really must ensure that its senior members avoid dismissing eminent legal figures who have said something controversial as "muddled and confused old codgers". Not only does the insult reinfo... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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If the government is to persuade us, contrary to appearances, of its determination to end discrimination against older people, it really must ensure that its senior members avoid dismissing eminent legal figures who have sai... | UK |
0catherinebennett | 2UK | B> Why have we read so little about David Blunkett in recent days? </B><BR> Rightly or wrongly, many newspapers have taken the view that Blunkett and his latest crime-busting initiative are of less immediate interest to their readers than the scandal which now threatens to engulf the royal family - for another week, at... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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B> Why have we read so little about David Blunkett in recent days? </B><BR> Rightly or wrongly, many newspapers have taken the view that Blunkett and his latest crime-busting initiative are of less immediate interest to thei... | UK |
0catherinebennett | 2UK | In a speech this week, Prince Charles suggested that people remember not to fill their kettles too full. Here he explains why: It seems to me that most people instinctively understand that to make a cup of tea it is not necessary to boil an entire kettle! And I, for one, simply cannot sit here and do nothing while, al... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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In a speech this week, Prince Charles suggested that people remember not to fill their kettles too full. Here he explains why: It seems to me that most people instinctively understand that to make a cup of tea it is not nec... | UK |
3jonathanfreedland | 2UK | If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That's been the rallying cry of the defenders of our ancient, unwritten constitution through the ages - if not always in those words. Sure, say the old guard, our patchwork quilt of unspoken custom and tacit tradition may not make logical sense when set out on a clean sheet of paper - t... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That's been the rallying cry of the defenders of our ancient, unwritten constitution through the ages - if not always in those words. Sure, say the old guard, our patchwork quilt of unspoken ... | UK |
3jonathanfreedland | 2UK | We know it's gripping. We know it's fun. But does it really matter? And does it matter enough to justify the current media hyperventilation about "the greatest crisis for the royal family since the abdication of 1936"? Certainly not, says constitutional historian and stout royalist Vernon Bogdanor: "It's a storm in a t... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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We know it's gripping. We know it's fun. But does it really matter? And does it matter enough to justify the current media hyperventilation about "the greatest crisis for the royal family since the abdication of 1936"? Certa... | UK |
3jonathanfreedland | 2UK | William Hague had a dose of it yesterday, just as Tony Blair had before him. Neither of them would have been surprised: after all, it has become the quasi-divine right of party leaders to be swamped in the ovations and adulations of their party conference. But one man will have no such luck. David Trimble will not be f... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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William Hague had a dose of it yesterday, just as Tony Blair had before him. Neither of them would have been surprised: after all, it has become the quasi-divine right of party leaders to be swamped in the ovations and adula... | UK |
3jonathanfreedland | 2UK | London was once again a city of migrants yesterday. For the second time in two weeks, the capital's streets were filled not with the usual cars and buses but thick, snaking columns of people on the move.These refugees from the city did not march with wagons piled high or bundles on their back, but with suitcases on whe... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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London was once again a city of migrants yesterday. For the second time in two weeks, the capital's streets were filled not with the usual cars and buses but thick, snaking columns of people on the move.These refugees from t... | UK |
3jonathanfreedland | 2UK | Sometimes an apology is easier to give than to receive. We all know it from our own lives. The one who says sorry can sit back, happy that the moral high ground is theirs, that they have done their bit. But the person who has been handed the apology, what can they do? They may not be ready to accept it; they may still ... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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Sometimes an apology is easier to give than to receive. We all know it from our own lives. The one who says sorry can sit back, happy that the moral high ground is theirs, that they have done their bit. But the person who ha... | UK |
3jonathanfreedland | 2UK | Tears, especially male ones, are becoming a frequent sight on British television. In the past week alone, several of the ambitious, thrusting men competing to be Alan Sugar's apprentice on BBC2 cracked under the stress and started welling up. Meanwhile, minor celebrities, worn down by the strain of singing pop duets fo... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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Tears, especially male ones, are becoming a frequent sight on British television. In the past week alone, several of the ambitious, thrusting men competing to be Alan Sugar's apprentice on BBC2 cracked under the stress and s... | UK |
3jonathanfreedland | 2UK | The list of victims is long. At the head of it should be the nearly 3m animals slaughtered and burned, along with the 68,000 cows, sheep and pigs set to follow them on to the funeral pyres. Next on the list would be the clutch of farmers who, despite 125m already pledged in compensation, will be driven out of business ... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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The list of victims is long. At the head of it should be the nearly 3m animals slaughtered and burned, along with the 68,000 cows, sheep and pigs set to follow them on to the funeral pyres. Next on the list would be the clut... | UK |
3jonathanfreedland | 2UK | The flames turning the night sky orange, the stench of burning flesh - no wonder the talk in the countryside is of apocalypse. "We are on the threshold of Armageddon," warns the National Farmers Union man in Devon, girding himself for another night of slaughter, another bonfire of the carcasses. It is, to be sure, a me... | topic | What is the topic of this article? The answer options are {{answer_choices|join(", ")}}.
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The flames turning the night sky orange, the stench of burning flesh - no wonder the talk in the countryside is of apocalypse. "We are on the threshold of Armageddon," warns the National Farmers Union man in Devon, girding h... | UK |
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