Stephen Armstrong

Articles by Stephen Armstrong

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Britain's child army

  • 05 February 2007
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Stricken by Iraq and low morale, the British army is on a desperate recruitment drive. Its new targets? Poorly educated teenagers and young schoolchildren

The game show goes on

  • 29 January 2007
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"Participation TV" has taken over the world's airwaves, with cheap game shows racking up profits from premium-rate phone lines. But is it legal? Stephen Armstrong investigates

"I got Latinos to vote . . . but they voted religion"

  • 06 November 2006

Stephen Armstrong talks to Eva Longoria

Legal highs: the new 'social tonics'?

  • 23 October 2006

Britain's drugs laws are in a mess, and into the confusion has stepped a new breed of drugs entrepreneurs who claim they have the answer: safe, substitute substances

Bloggers for hire

  • 28 August 2006

The days of genuine "citizen-generated" media may be numbered. Suddenly big business is all over the blogosphere, paying armies of willing recruits to praise products

Generation X-Files

  • 07 August 2006

The psychic schools have never been so busy, and it's not the Doris Stokes brigade who want to learn, but the young, the prosperous and the educated. Stephen Armstrong uncovers a paranormal boom

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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