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Dangerous disabled people III

  • By Victoria Brignell
  • 08 January

Sinners tend to be more interesting than saints. Wickedness and wrongdoing seem to fascinate more than good deeds and gallantry, so instead of disabled role models...

Cable wades into Chagos injustice row

  • By Sean Carey
  • 07 January

Senior Lib Dem Vince Cable has thrown his weight behind a new cross party group that aims to persuade David Miliband to right a very old British injustice

Somalia nearing disaster

  • By Jeremy Sare
  • 19 December

Unthinkable as it may seem Somalia looks set to plunge into a wave of even greater chaos when Ethiopian and African Union troops withdraw later this month

Muntadar al-Zaidi my hero

  • By Richard Herring
  • 19 December

If only that shoe had hit Bush. It wouldn’t have compensated for the hundreds of thousands of people who have died in Iraq, but it would have been a good start

Tree-hugging, American-style

  • By Owen Sheers
  • 18 December

A hornet's nest for Obama

  • By Lindsey Hilsum
  • 18 December

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From Baltimore to Baghdad

The writing team behind The Wire has taken on the war in Iraq. The result is a new miniseries that challenges preconceptions on all sides

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