Secrets, the pole-dancing chain, has discovered something most of us thought was obvious: men are willing to pay more to see scantily clad women than women are... more
Armed with just a pistol, military experts are going with civilians into remote communities to construct clinics and meeting halls. Robert Fox reports on a success story that challenges the media's commentary of despair ... more
When I took up the pro no-fly zone case a couple of weeks ago on Radio 4's Moral Maze, at the time it seemed even to me an option unlikely to prevail... more
Downing Street was warned not to use intelligence for political ends years before the so-called "dodgy dossier" on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was drawn up... more
Town halls could be forced to pay for temporary classrooms and other services for families forced out of central London by housing benefit changes... more
Boris Johnson's most senior aides today denied he would lose control of London's £1.2 billion housing budget as a result of his inflammatory remarks over housing benefit... more
Another weekend of guff and counter-guff surrounding the changes to housing benefit and we’re still little closer to understanding what the impact of the final rules will be... more
David Cameron slaps down Boris Johnson after he suggested the Government's housing benefit reforms could result in the 'Kosovo-style social cleansing' of London families... more
Alan Sugar has confronted some aggressive personalities on The Apprentice, but this time he will be dealing with a professional killer - former Marine Christopher Farrell... more
The war crimes trial of former Bosnia Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was opened and adjourned in The Hague after he carried out his threat to boycott proceedings... more
A freezing night on the ice, an ambush in Kosovo and a terrifying encounter with the Burmese militia. Three adventurers recount their ultimate tales of derring-do... more
Former British soldier accused of shooting dead two colleagues in Iraq was suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome and should never have been given a job as a private security guard... more
As the summer heat and dust rises over the Basra airbase the Union flag will be hauled down definitively, drawing to an end a six-year adventure from which our leaders, civil and military, must draw some urgent lessons. If they don't they are going to regret it - and pretty quickly.
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I Miss Communism is a memoir of youth that badly needs an injection of documentary grit and some iron in its soul. As it stands, it comes dangerously close to harmless schmaltz.... more
Gregory Burke's "unauthorised biography" of the Highlands' oldest regiment, Black Watch, is a superlative play, brimfull of theatricality, energy and style.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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