(Thai) Football’s Coming Home
What the #ThaiCaveRescue tells us is that when human beings work as a team, then remarkable things can be achieved.
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Media Coverage
When your students turn you into a Jungle Book character
England have turned me into Baloo and I’m wearing a grass skirt and coconut bra while sashaying into a situation where, unquestionably, I think England are going to win the World Cup.
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We’ve been here before – Corbyn and the right wing press
The latest in a long line of attempts to ram home to their readership, and by extension the electorate, Corbyn’s complete unsuitability for high office.
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Why do we buy bottled water?
Why we buy bottled water can be explained, at least in part, by the triumph of advertising and marketing.
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Cometh the hour, cometh the Mogg
Jacob Rees Mogg is clearly a politician of drive and determination – but his ambition is more subtle. Partially visible, perhaps and not so obviously naked as Boris Johnson’s, but there none the less.
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The (still) dying art of the political interview
The observation that the one-on–one televisual political interview is, at best, moribund is not a new one.
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It’s sport that makes the world go round
Sport is utterly central to the conduct of international politics – and always has been.
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How the State of Local News Varies (and Doesn’t) Around the World
Too often, discussions about the state of journalism tend to be national-centric. Given differences across markets, this is not surprising.
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What would Emily Davison do?
Celebrity Big Brother has announced that it will celebrate its 21st series (yes, really) with a “salute to a centenary of women’s suffrage”.
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A Tabloid love story
Brace yourselves for Royal news stories – 4 of the 6 most read things on the @guardian one day last week were about Harry and Meghan.
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