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New Statesman Book Review: Reasons To Be Fearful

The World of Atomic Weaponry

Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger

Bloomsbury, 336pp, £12.99

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Posted at 00:00 BST, 5th August 2008.

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FT Magazine Cover Story: A Rhapsody in Blue

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How did the Young Conservatives Shake Off Their Tory Boy image?

Though the Watford Gap in Northamptonshire is famously the place where the north begins, it has been suggested that a more evocative frontier would be the Cheshire town of Crewe. Here, the foreboding skies, flat vowels and redbrick Victorian hotels are unmistakably the north of the imagination – a place where, traditionally, the Labour vote has been weighed rather than counted.

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Posted at 00:00 BST, 4th August 2008.

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New Statesman Book Review: Reasons to be Fearful

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The spectre of atomic weapons has been replaced in the popular imagination by that of climate change - yet two defence analysts convincingly argue that another nuclear catastrophe is as likely as ever

the World of Atomic Weaponry

Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger

Bloomsbury, 336pp, £12.99

31 July 2008

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Posted at 00:00 BST, 31st July 2008.

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Lunch with the FT Ronnie Wood

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Wednesday 9 July 2008

The Saddle Room, The Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin

12 Clare Atlantic Oyster – 33.00

Sea Food Platter

½ lobster tail, 4 Jumbo Prawn, 4 Oysters and Lobsters and Crab Cocktail

– 44.00

3 Espresso – 13.50

Total due: £90.50

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Posted at 00:00 BST, 9th July 2008.

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FT Weekend Magazine: A Class Apart

It's 11 o'clock on Tuesday morning. Throughout Britain, school bells are ringing and corridors are pressed with shrieking teenagers on their way from geography to double science. Excuses are being formulated for late homework; gossip is being shared. But elsewhere, an alternative vision of contemporary British education can be seen. Across kitchen tables and on suburban sofas, in museums and parks, a growing tribe of home-schooled children is learning without whiteboards, timetables or uniforms.

Tagged: Financial Times Reportage

Posted at 00:00 BST, 23rd June 2008.

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Book Review: Cold Cream - My Early Life and Other Mistakes by Ferdinand Mount

Financial Times, May 2008

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Posted at 00:00 BST, 11th May 2008.

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New Statesman: The Accidental Tourist

8th May 2008. Rob Blackhurst books a family break at a Portuguese resort - and finds himself babysitting in Praia da Luz

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Posted at 12:00 BST, 8th May 2008.

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FT Magazine : Home from Home - The British Retirement Village

April 8 2008

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Posted at 12:00 BST, 8th April 2008.

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FT Magazine: The Hills Are Alive

Rob Blackhurst on the outsiders who are bringing crofters back from the brink.

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Posted at 00:00 GMT, 12th January 2008.

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FT Weekend Interview: Cardinal Cormac Murphy O-Connor Interview:

December 22 2007

Relieved not to be Pope The Archbishop of Westminster tells Rob Blackhurst about choosing a pontiff and why he'll be in prison over the Christmas season

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Posted at 00:00 GMT, 22nd December 2007.

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