Tag: Newspapers
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Women swear more than men, study finds
According to British researchers, the way men and women swear has changed radically since the 1990s. Our use of profanities is constantly shifting. What do these trends say about us?
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Calais kids and Chibok girls: the homecoming
Yesterday our screens were filled with emotional scenes of teenagers returning home to their families. First the Chibok girls. Then refugees from Calais. Why are their stories so powerful?
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Media storm as hurricane smashes into Florida
Hurricane Matthew is the strongest storm to hit the US for 12 years. No wonder it is big news. But is it too big? There are worse natural disasters… only with less ‘exciting’ pictures.
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The sting: England manager’s firing ‘unfair’
Sam Allardyce waited years to manage England’s football team. Last night he was sacked after one game. An undercover operation cost him the role. A fair cop, or a sinister intrusion?
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New York bomb attack exposes Western nerves
Nobody was killed. All the injured were released from hospital. Yet the shock waves from Saturday night’s explosion in Manhattan continue to divide opinion and dominate the news cycle. Why?
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Germany mourns nine killed in mass shooting
The deaths of nine people in Munich last Friday are ‘difficult to bear’ says Angela Merkel. Their killer appears to have been a ‘withdrawn’ teenager who was ‘obsessed’ with mass shootings.
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‘Magical’ protest photo takes world by storm
Last week, a photograph of a protester in Louisiana was widely circulated. The image has come to define the current tensions between black Americans and US police. Why is it so effective?
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Media wars: UK press split 50-50 over Europe
Most of Britain’s newspapers have now recommended to their readers how to vote in the EU referendum. Like the public, they are evenly divided. Is this an indictment of British politics?
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Turkey’s president ridiculed through poetry
A British magazine has made waves worldwide by asking readers to mock President Erdoğan in verse after he reacted angrily to a satirical sketch. Deserved mockery? Or tasteless bear-baiting?
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Facebook controls the news, say former staff
Mark Zuckerberg is meeting high-profile US conservatives today after claims that Facebook staff suppressed news stories. Is Facebook just a neutral platform for sharing information?
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Trump to run for president as Cruz pulls out
After a beaten Ted Cruz resigned last night, Donald Trump will be Republican candidate for the US presidency. He is the first nominee since 1952 without any experience of elected office.
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UK media gagged by privacy injunction ‘farce’
A celebrity scandal has already been reported in the USA and Scotland including names — banned from publication in England and Wales. Do the famous deserve a legal right to privacy?
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Submerged: how climate news gets hidden away
February’s global temperatures smashed records for the fifth month in a row, by a higher margin than ever. So when NASA revealed all in a ‘bombshell’ report, why didn’t the media care more?
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Royal rage over tabloid’s Brexit ‘exclusive’
‘Nonsense’. A ‘bombshell’. ‘Spurious’. The Sun has started an explosive debate by claiming that the queen wants Britain to leave the EU. Is it...
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A ‘New Day’ dawns as the Independent falls
Last week the opinionated Independent announced the closure of its print edition. Now, a new ‘politically neutral’ newspaper is entering the fray....