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Wagner wants England ‘to hate him’
New Zealand's Neil Wagner, second left, said he wanted to make England's batsmen hate him and get in their face as the Black Caps look to square the Test series. (AP Photo/Kirsty ...
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David Cameron tries to placate the swivel-eyed loons with his natural leadership skills
Chillax, Andy. It will all soon pass. A few sets of tennis will blow away the cobwebs. Thing is, I know the blue-rinsed Tory activists are swivel-eyed loons and you know they are swivel-eyed loons. Everyone knows they are swivel-eyed loons. But we just can't say so out loud at the moment because that golf-club bore, Fargo, and his Ukip friends have got up a head of ...
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Afghan interpreters risk being failed by bureaucracy
Downing Street has denied reports that its scheme is open only to interpreters who lose their jobs as troops are withdrawn. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty ...
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Woolwich attack lone wolf and jihadist theories will occupy security forces
Police cordon off a road in Woolwich, London, after the incident in which one man was killed and two others seriously injured. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty ...
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Shocking attack in England
Police forensics tents and officers are seen in Woolwich, east London, May 22, 2013. British police shot and wounded two men after a man thought to be a serving soldier was killed outside a London barracks, in an attack Prime Minister David Cameron called "truly shocking." In a dramatic move, the government's emergency response committee was being summoned following the killing ...
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Duchess Kate wears sunny yellow for Buckingham Palace garden party
Prince Charles, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, attend a garden party on the grounds of Buckingham Palace in London on May 22, ...
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U.K. soldier killed in London attack terrorism suspected
A man was killed with a sharp instrument and London police shot and wounded two alleged attackers in what officials said appeared to be a terrorist attack. Eyewitnesses said two men called out "Allahu Akbar [God is Great]" before attacking the victim as he walked along a street in east London, and waved weapons as they dumped his body in the middle of the road, the BBC reported. The ...
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Report highlights species decline in Britain
Conservationists say 60 percent of animal and plant species studied in Britain have declined in the past 50 years with bees and wildflowers the most vulnerable. A State of Nature report put together by 25 British wildlife organizations and assessing 3,148 species said reasons for species decline are "many and varied" but include rising temperatures and habitat degradation, the BBC ...
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We face new type of terror threat after Woolwich attack says former Flying Squad commander
Terror experts said that the murder is a "departure" from previous attacks and represents a "new round of terror threats in this ...
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Eyewitnesses describe crazed attackers hacking victim by Woolwich barracks
Eyewitnesses today described seeing the "crazed" Woolwich attackers "hacking" at their victim and posing for pictures before charging at police wielding meat ...
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I am the beneficiary of the house-price boom. My children are its victims | Suzanne Moore
property is theft then I am a colossal thief. I sold my house via Foxtons. Thanks, Nick! See, I know how to get you onside; boasting of my palatial Hackney residence! The truth is that like anyone who bought property 20 years ago in London and tarted it up and just kind of lived in it, the profit made has nothing to do with my canniness or financial nous. It's just that house prices have ...
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Austerity is a task for another day IMF tells George Osborne
austerity pause button. Invest more in social housing, schools and road repairs. Growth is more important in the short term than deficit reduction. Couched in suitably polite language, that was the uncomfortable message from the International Monetary Fund ...
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Deficit national debt and government borrowing - how has it changed since 1946
Office for National Statistics said public sector net borrowing came in at 85.1 for the 2012-13 financial year. That's a 35.8bn improvement on the 120.9bn in the previous ...
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Bank of England remains divided on whether to continue with stimulus
LONDON--Bank of England policymakers remain divided on whether to provide more stimulus to the flat-lining economy, according to the minutes of their meeting in ...
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High Court rules that billionaire fraudster should lose three luxury properties
Kazakh businessman Mukhtar Ablyazov fled the UK on a Europe-bound coach last year after he was sentenced to 22 months imprisonment for contempt over failing to declare the full extent of his wealth.It is alleged that he embezzled more than $6bn during his time as chairman of BTA Bank between 2005 and 2009, which he denies. The bank is now pursuing Mr Ablyazov in the High Court over 11 separate ...
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Anonymity order lifted for triple child killer David McGreavy jailed in 1973
A sadistic killer, who murdered three children he was babysitting before impaling them on railings, could be given a new identity if the parole board agrees to transfer him to an open ...
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National archives Edward VIII’s phone calls - and how MI5 bugged them
Cahal Milmo is the chief reporter of The Independent and has been with the paper since 2000. He was born in London and previously worked at the Press Association news agency. He has reported on assignment at home and abroad, including Rwanda, Sudan and Burkina Faso, the phone hacking scandal and the London Olympics. In his spare time he is a keen runner and cyclist, and keeps an ...
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Rommel plot revealed Plan to assassinate the Desert Fox – and why MI6 abandoned it
Britain flirted with the idea of launching a wave of assassinations of senior Nazis, from Field Marshal Rommel to railway chiefs, to coincide with the D-Day landings, according to newly released ...
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Video Police statement on Woolwich
'Soldier beheaded' in street as two shot in suspected terrorist attack near Woolwich barracks - 'attacker' shown in video saying 'We will never stop fighting ...
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Google boss Eric Schmidt hits back at Ed Miliband and vows to invest in UK even if it has to pay more tax
Google will continue to invest in UK even if the company is forced by law to pay more tax, the company's chairman Eric Schmidt said yesterday, claiming "we love you guys too ...
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Man killed in deadly terror attack in London street
Link to video: Woolwich: suspect believed to be involved in attack Dramatic footage of the suspected terrorist attack near the Woolwich barracks today that left one man dead has emerged, showing a man with blood covered hands using jihadist rhetoric to justify the violence.Tonight the Prime Minister David Cameron vowed that Britain will "never buckle" in the face of terrorist ...
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Who dares to dodge Googles information tax | McKenzie Wark
'Facebook or Google's YouTube are not the culture industries so much as the vulture industries, taking an information surcharge from us while we amuse each other, and selling us to advertisers.' Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty ...
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UK and France to join global anti-corruption initiative
oil companies to reveal the taxes paid to national governments and the value of the minerals being extracted.Nearly 40 countries have already signed but the news that France and the UK have joined the initiative represents a breakthrough.The decision to join ...
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EU tax summit backs US-led drive to tackle banking secrecy
European leaders have thrown their weight behind a gathering international crackdown on tax evasion, backing US-led efforts to develop a new global template to combat banking secrecy.Amid mounting public outrage in Britain, France, Germany and Ireland over individual and corporate tax scandals, an EU summit pledged to clamp down through the sharing of information on the assets and gains of ...
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Bank of England remains split along familiar lines
The minutes of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting held on May 8 and 9, were released today and continued to reveal a story of a committee with the battle lines still drawn in the same ways as previously.The Dovish camp, The Governor, Paul Fisher and David Miles, would have liked to increase 'the stock of asset purchases financed by the issuance of central ...
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Britain losing interest in leading?
Britain was once the most powerful country in the world, it ran an empire that was the envy of every other colonial power, and gave the world a number of modern institutions that are still widely used today, most notable in the realm of political systems and democratic checks and balances. But Britain today is a shadow of what it once was, some might say it is just another country, nothing special.
Perhaps it’s a little harsh to say there’s nothing special about the UK. The United Kingdom remains an influential country in international politics, especially throughout the Commonwealth, and the capital city, London, is headquarters to some of the world’s biggest companies and home to one of the largest stock exchanges in the world. Read more
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