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A civil wrong or a rebellion too right on?

16.11.09
Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle are making a stand, they say, against “an apartheid of sorts”... more

Judges block hacker Gary McKinnon's appeal

09.10.09
Computer hacker Gary McKinnon is set to go to European judges to fight his extradition to the United States after being refused permission to appeal to the Supreme Court... more

This anti-Europe spasm will take Britain nowhere

08.06.09
The Euro-sceptics’ triumph will not lead to withdrawal – just impotence, warns a former Europe minister ... more

We're to blame for BNP success, says Harriet Harman

08.06.09
The BNP's success in the European election followed a collapse in Labour's support in its heartlands, Harriet Harman admitted... more

Sporting Miscellanies

08.06.09
Sport: After his French Open triumph, there is no doubt that Roger Federer is tennis' GOAT... more

PM in 'nasty BNP' warning

01.06.09
Gordon Brown today abandoned his strategy of ignoring the far-Right British National Party amid fears that it will achieve a breakthrough in the European elections this week.... more

G20 action is no quick fix for slump, admits Darling

03.04.09
Alistair Darling admitted that there would be no "overnight fix" to the recession as questions remained over banks' toxic assets and the size of the global economic stimulus... more

Nato must face its Afghan dilemma

03.04.09
President Obama’s message to European leaders at the Nato summit in Strasbourg has gone straight to the heart of the biggest dilemma facing the organisation, today celebrating its 60th birthday: what to do about Afghanistan... more

Al Qaeda ‘is greater threat to Europe than America’

03.04.09
Barack Obama has warned that Europe is at greater risk than the US of attack by al Qaeda as he sought to bury past differences with France in fighting terrorism... more

Grim US jobless data take the gloss off G20 euphoria

03.04.09
The jubilant mood created by the G20 summit agreements yesterday was rapidly replaced this afternoon by a grim appreciation of the extent of the world’s economic troubles as US unemployment soared to its highest since 1983... more

Sarkozy takes his turn to shine on world stage

03.04.09
The Obama effect swept into France as the US President charmed the crowds while warning that he wanted Europe to do more to combat global terror... more

Brown’s favour to Obama: 800 troops off to war

03.04.09
Up to 800 more British troops are set to be sent to Afghanistan... more

Gordon Brown pledges cautious Budget on his world tour

27.03.09
Gordon Brown's G20 world tour was overshadowed by squabbling between allies and a final retreat from a big-spending Budget... more

2,000 more British troops to join Barack Obama's Afghanistan surge

27.03.09
Britain is ready to deploy up to 2,000 more troops to the war in Afghanistan, the head of the Army indicated... more

Today's James Naughtie says Gordon Brown 'is desperate'

26.03.09
Gordon Brown is in a desperate political situation at home and has gone abroad as he wants to be seen to be taken seriously, a leading BBC broadcaster claimed... more

Brown flies to Brazil to keep G20 summit on track

26.03.09
Gordon Brown has flown to Brazil as he battles to stop his plans for the crunch G20 summit from being derailed... more

Zut alors – Gordon’s just discovered he likes Europe after all

25.03.09
The PM’s efforts to impress the Strasbourg parliament are part of his desperate strategy to woo the voters back home... more

Globetrotting Gordon heads off to save the world (again)

24.03.09
Gordon Brown kicked off a globetrotting tour ahead of the G20 summit amid a stark warning from his own party that he risks ignoring the concerns of voters at home... more

Cheaper, nicer, better – the train, plane and boat travel alternatives every Londoner should know

27.02.09
Even in the transport black hole that is Britain, there are pockets of travel quality - the Evening Standard reveals how to travel in comfort and style... more

Missing London student is safe

02.02.09
A London law student who went missing in France has been found safe... more

Interpol searches for 21-year-old London student missing in France

30.01.09
An international search has been launched by Interpol for a London law student missing in France since last month... more

All around the world for £1.4 million

30.12.08
Globetrotting backbench MPs have received £1.4million of free trips in a year - flying first class, staying in five-star hotels and getting a daily cash allowance... more

The best art house films for 2009

29.12.08
Critically and commercially, 2008 has been good for foreign movies and next year looks even better. From a Korean spaghetti western to a Danish war film, expect the unexpected.... more

DNA of one million innocent people held illegally by police

04.12.08
DNA samples of up to a million people held by police on a national database may have to be destroyed after the Government lost a landmark European legal ruling ... more

Take shelter at the Tate ... but beware of the massive spider

13.10.08
London is under attack and Tate Modern is the place to turn for safety... more

Landmark building scrapped because of fears over economy

14.02.08
A building designed for the South Bank by one of the world's top architects has been scrapped over fears about the credit crunch... more

A masterpiece to cry for

11.01.08
Two magnificent exhibitions of the German Renaissance master Grunewald are enough to move a grown man to tears and justify a trip to both Germany and France.... more

Bad vibrations from a set of misused sex toys

07.08.07
Nicholas de Jongh found himself bored to distraction by Richard Bean's "political sex farce" In The Club.... more

Adès proves he's the real thing

13.03.07
Thomas Adès's first full-scale opera, The Tempest, returns to Covent Garden as an assured, fully matured work with many of the reservations evident on first hearing banished.... more

Rakes are progressing

07.02.07
Unfailingly polite, moving with the curious, gawky grace of a prep school pupil auditioning for Gilbert and Sullivan, John Aizlewood was fascinated by The Rakes singer Alan Donohoe.... more

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