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If you're a lag on the lam, head for Chelmsford I have started my annual two-month period of roaming around the country annoying the public for televisual purposes. I'm filming series two of Fool Britannia and it always takes a little while to get back on to the hidden camera saddle.
The Independent | 5 hours, 45 minutes ago | comment? | recommend
Love against money? It's no contest It takes an event like the final day of the football season the Premier League's 20 clubs complete their fixture list this afternoon to remind you just how tightly the commercial noose is pulled around the nation's institutional throat.&
The Independent | 5 hours, 45 minutes ago | comment? | recommend
It's not right until there's aMrRight Kate Garraway, the breakfast TV presenter, has allowed herself to be subjected to a prosthetic makeover so as to look 70 and pregnant, as part of a publicity campaign to make young women think twice before delaying pregnancy.
The Independent | 5 hours, 45 minutes ago | comment? | recommend
Marriage is about joy, whatever your gender Tomorrow the equal marriage Bill is back in the Commons and it's about time it got the celebratory fanfare it deserves. So far we've heard the shouting from the Tory right. Ministers are gritting their teeth and wishing it was over. The Prime Minister has
The Independent | 5 hours, 45 minutes ago | comment? | recommend
These days you'll only find a Gatsby in films Baz Luhrmann has successfully managed to hack pretty much all the poetry and beauty of FScott Fitzgerald's prose out of his new version of The Great Gatsby. He has, though, maxed up the 1920s Wasp (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) chic. The film's costume de
The Independent | 5 hours, 45 minutes ago | comment? | recommend
Editorial: Google could do itself some good There are two possible responses to thepayment by several large, profitable, multinational companies of nugatory sums in corporation tax. One is to give up on the idea of a profits tax altogether. There is an economic case for that. It is complex and hard
The Independent | 5 hours, 45 minutes ago | comment? | recommend
The Oxford child sex abuse case shows how the media talks in stereotypes but misses the big picture Nothing sells newspapers like a combination of depravity and self-righteous indignation. There can be no dispute about the depraved behaviour of the gang of Oxford men just convicted of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 11. They were found guil
The Independent | 5 hours, 45 minutes ago | comment? | recommend
Tom Hodgkinson: 'After two years of neglect, I've remembered how therapeutic gardening can be' May is the most magical month. It certainly feels that way down here on the farm in Devon, the emergence of the sun being very welcome indeed. It has been a hard winter for smaller local farmers. One lost 80 sheep and lambs to the cold. Nothing grew. The
The Independent | 5 hours, 45 minutes ago | comment? | recommend
'We failed toprotect vulnerable children in the past, but attitudes are changing' The sorts of attitudes that have been extremely troubling and have undoubtedly contributed to the failures to protect children are seen now as unacceptable: that children are blamed for running away; they are seen as just difficult; sometimes it is just a
The Independent | 5 hours, 45 minutes ago | comment? | recommend
New poll puts Ukip in third place above the Lib Dems Support for the UK Independence Party across Britain has risen to its highest level, consolidating its position as the third most popular party in the country, according to a new poll for The Independent on Sunday.
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