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The moment they step on court most of them become nervous wrecks. They lie about line calls and bicker over the score; if ...

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British generals and politicians keep warning that the UK needs to be ready for imminent war or – in the government’s ...

During a parliamentary debate on the Terrorism Bill in 2000, MPs asked whether the legislation could be used to proscribe Greenpeace as a terrorist organisation. The group had, in recent years, ...

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Ouvidor 63 is an illegal but tolerated artist-led occupation of an office block in downtown São Paulo. There are perhaps two ...

Ouvidor 63 is an illegal but tolerated artist-led occupation of an office block in downtown São Paulo. There are perhaps two hundred artists living and working in the ‘largest artist-led occupation in ...