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Independent Voices: Hacked off with free speech
With injunctions, super-injunctions, libel, the Arab Spring, Twitter privacy and Google in China all high on the public agenda, the issue of Free Speech – and its limits – has never been more pertinent.
16 Jun 2011 00:00:59 BST
Letter from the editor: Accessible and affordable
The London Evening Standard, a stablemate of ours, is running a really excellent campaign at the moment in which it is highlighting the shocking literacy rate in the capital, especially among children.
16 Jun 2011 00:00:10 BST
Maria Sharapova: A double life of sales and serves
No wonder she is the world's highest-earning sportswoman. Give Maria Sharapova a spare half an hour away from tennis and she will probably spend it studying the latest sales figures for the clothing ranges she helps to design.
16 Jun 2011 00:00:01 BSTUS universities see rise in UK applicants
Growing numbers of British students are applying to US universities, with five of the top eight attracting more UK applicants this year. Harvard has had 500 applications, against 370 in 2010.
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Newcastle in turmoil as livid Barton warns of mass exodus
Newcastle United's decision to agree a transfer fee yesterday for captain Kevin Nolan with relegated West Ham United has been met with fury inside the St James' Park dressing room.
16 Jun 2011 00:00:01 BST
Maria Sharapova: A double life of sales and serves
No wonder she is the world's highest-earning sportswoman. Give Maria Sharapova a spare half an hour away from tennis and she will probably spend it studying the latest sales figures for the clothing ranges she helps to design.
16 Jun 2011 00:00:01 BST
Runless Strauss is fireproof but he still needs to start blazing
After 33 Tests as England's captain, Andrew Strauss might have known better. Had he dangled a carrot the size of the London Gherkin he could hardly have enticed providence more persuasively.
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iBet: Luke Donald not suited to US Open course
US Open, Top Ten Finish Market Lay Luke Donald at 1.8 to one Luke Donald is on a fantastic run of form that’s seen him become world number one. It’s resulted in a major gamble that’s seen the Englishman backed into joint favouritism with Lee Westwood at 12-1. However, I think there is value is backing against him. The Congressional course requires an accurate driver and Donald is certainly that. But you also need a long hitter – this is the second longest US Open course in history at 7,574 yards. And with a drive average of under 280 yards Donald is only…
16 Jun 2011 00:01:23 BST
Bugbears and Gobbledegook
I will post some of your contributions to the Banned List, from the comments, via Twitter and by email, over the coming period.* I now have easily enough objectionable words and phrases for a second 100. But first, some preliminaries. Heidi Corbally in the comments on yesterday’s Independent article says that “I’m not going to lie” is her biggest bugbear, before realising that bugbear is also cliché. “Doh!” she says. Which is also on the list, although there are disputes about its spelling. Bugbear, though, is interesting, because it has changed meaning: it…
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Independent Voices: Hacked off with free speech
With injunctions, super-injunctions, libel, the Arab Spring, Twitter privacy and Google in China all high on the public agenda, the issue of Free Speech – and its limits – has never been more pertinent.
16 Jun 2011 00:00:59 BSTLeading article: Politicians and regulators need to show their mettle
Ring-fencing and gold-plating are words that tend to make bankers uncomfortable. The first, as recommended by the interim report of the Independent Commission on Banking, is that large banks' retail and investment divisions should be separately capitalised. The second is that national regulators should be able to impose a capital buffer on domestic banks over and above international minimum standards. George Osborne gave his backing to both in his Mansion House speech last night.
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The Week In Radio: A memorable look at the middle-class meltdown
Listening to that vale of tears The Archers recently I began to wonder whether the undercurrent of gloom detectable in radio drama could be entirely down to the economy. It's noticeable that while the ongoing financial crisis gets endless attention on news and current affairs programmes, writers and artists have only patchily responded. There was an interesting exploration of this in Radio 3's Europe – the Art of Austerity, which compared today's response to that of European artists during the recession of the 1930s. Could The Archers' current weeping and…
16 Jun 2011 00:00:01 BST
Culture Club: Game of Thrones, Sky Atlantic, Monday
"I adore it! It's quite hard going and complicated at first, but once you get into it it's really worth the mental slog of working out who everyone is."
16 Jun 2011 00:00:01 BSTLast Night's TV: Agatha Christie's Marple/ITV1Wonderland – The Kids Who Play with Fire/BBC2Fisherman's Friends/ITV1
I don't know whether you care why they didn't ask Evans or not, but if you're hoping for clarification here I'm afraid I'm going to have to disappoint you. I didn't know the answer before I watched Agatha Christie's Marple, never having read that particular novel, and I'm no wiser now that I have. I can tell you who Evans was, because he was played by Mark Williams, who could read out the fine print on a phone contract and make it interesting. Or at least I can tell you who one Evans was, because I was vaguely aware – through the light coma of the final…
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