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Diplomats to the core - how Oxford continues to 'inoculate the world with Balliol'.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Category: Miscelleneous
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It is 6pm and a group of young men and women are filing in orderly fashion into one of Oxford's more discreet academic buildings for a lecture on the global politics of environment by a former UK ambassador to the UN.
Trusted mastermind of UK cold war spycraft
Friday, February 20, 2009
Category: Miscelleneous
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A cursory look at Sir Arthur Temple Franks' entry in Who's Who?would suggest a somewhat unremarkable life of wartime military service and foreign office postings spanning some 40 years.
Olympic flame
Friday, February 20, 2009
Category: Miscelleneous
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Back in 1978, Argentina was preparing to host the World Cup. The fact that the military junta had by then purged the nation of thousands of dissidents and that one of the biggest torture and death camps was a few hundreds yards away from the River Plate stadium mattered not a jot to Fifa, the world governing body, the participating nations and the fans.
Charities bid to help build prisons
Friday, February 20, 2009
Category: Miscelleneous
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Charities are bidding jointly with the private sector for the construction and running of new prisons in a significant expansion of the voluntary sector's involvement in the criminal justice system, it emerged yesterday.
Paddick turns on Met police chief
Friday, February 20, 2009
Category: Miscelleneous
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It has been another bad week for the Metropolitan police service, with allegations of sleaze forcing the resignation of Andy Hayman its head of anti-terrorism, and the bungling of the Stockwell shooting still haunting commissioner Sir Ian Blair.
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