Stephen Armstrong

Articles by Stephen Armstrong

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Britain's child army

  • 05 February 2007
  • 10 comments

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
  • 2 comments

"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
  • 1 comment

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

A witch-hunt?

A witch-hunt against the Sun?

Osborne's woes

Osborne hoisted with his own petard

Marr's monarchism

Enough of this royal deference

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?
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