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‘What’s That Noshin’ On My Laig?’

Liam Shaw

According to a study published in Nature last month, oceanic shark numbers have declined by 70 per cent since 1970. Three-quarters of ocean-going...

San Gino

John Foot

Around fifteen years ago, a story emerged about Bartali’s activities during the Nazi occupation of Italy. It was said that the great cyclist had...

Neither British nor Independent, and No Deterrent

Norman Dombey

Britain’s ‘independent nuclear deterrent’ has been described by ministers as the basis of our defence strategy for nearly seventy years. Tony...

Cranks and Shills

Arianne Shahvisi

‘A change in the name of the US War Department to “Defense Department” in 1947,’ Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman wrote in After the Cataclysm...

If it were a narco lab, it would be working

John Perry

Honduras is a failed state and, unless US policy towards it changes radically, many thousands more will head north. Since the military coup in 2009...
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