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Freshly Squeezed

by Ed Stein

Gocomics

January 26, 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Queen's Nazi salute footage

is matter of historical significance, says the Sun

G

Saturday 18 July 2015        15.39 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/18/queens-nazi-salute-footage-historical-significance-sun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        Society        p. 11        19 October 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        p. 10        2 June 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

G2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        p. 33        6.1.2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        p. 8        10 February 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peter Brookes

The Times

January 24, 2007

 

George W. Bush

2007 State of the Union speech
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2563104,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2563441,00.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/01/20070123-2.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peter Brookes

editorial punishment

The Times

November 9, 2006

 

George W. Bush

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        p. 40        5.11.2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        p. 12        25.8.2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        p. 12        17.8.2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        p. 8        25.8.2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        Weekend        p. 100        22.4.2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        Media        p. 25        26.6.2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        Weekend        p. 40        22.7.2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        p. 9        4.11.2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Richard Avedon        1923-2004
http://www.richardavedon.com/advertising2004/barelythere/01.php

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        Sport        p. 3        15 March 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        p. 17        15.3.2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        p. 18        16.3.2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sun        Sport frontpage        Saturday, June 24, 2006
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Sun        Sport frontpage        12.6.2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

22.12.2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17.9.2004

related
 http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/
0,11026,1307436,00.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15.10.2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        2.6.2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Private Eye        c. 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One Nation Under Guard

 

February 15, 2014
4:20 pm
The New York Times
The Great Divide
By SAMUEL BOWLES
and ARJUN JAYADEV

 

Another dubious first for America: We now employ as many private security guards as high school teachers — over one million of them, or nearly double their number in 1980.

And that’s just a small fraction of what we call “guard labor.” In addition to private security guards, that means police officers, members of the armed forces, prison and court officials, civilian employees of the military, and those producing weapons: a total of 5.2 million workers in 2011. That is a far larger number than we have of teachers at all levels.

What is happening in America today is both unprecedented in our history, and virtually unique among Western democratic nations. The share of our labor force devoted to guard labor has risen fivefold since 1890 — a year when, in case you were wondering, the homicide rate was much higher than today.

One Nation Under Guard, NYT, 15.2.2014,
https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/15/
one-nation-under-guard/ 

 

 

 

 

 

A Record Worth Wilting For:

Death Valley Is Hotter Than ...

 

December 28, 2012
The New York Times
By ADAM NAGOURNEY

 

FURNACE CREEK, Calif. — For Death Valley, a place that embraces its extremes, this has long been an affront: As furnace-hot as it gets here, it could not lay claim to being the hottest place on earth. That honor, as it were, has gone since 1922 to a city on the northwestern tip of Libya.

    A Record Worth Wilting For: Death Valley Is Hotter Than ...,
    NYT, 28.12.2012,
    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/29/science/earth/
    death-valley-temperature-record-is-restored.html

 

 

 

 

 

The gas ceiling

A helium roof that rises and falls with the weather?
Rem Koolhaas's Serpentine Pavilion is a joyous extravagance,
says Steve Rose

 

Monday July 3, 2006
The Guardian

 

Musicians can jam, artists can doodle, actors can improvise, but when architects try to loosen up, they usually end up getting sued. Architecture cannot afford to be vague. Grey areas, margins of error, middle ground - these ambiguous spaces are enemy territory to a discipline that demands precision and certainty. But there is, at least, a little patch of parkland in London where some lucky architects can go to play. This is the lawn of the Serpentine Gallery, in Kensington Gardens, where every summer a new pavilion more outlandish than the last briefly blossoms. It started as a delightful seasonal diversion, but after six years the Serpentine's pavilion programme has become one of the best ideas in the art world. That little patch of lawn is now an architectural test site of global significance.

The gas ceiling, G, 3.7.2006,
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/jul/03/
architecture 

 

 

 

 

 

Canvassing opinion

Radio 4 fires debate over best painting

 

Cognoscenti may dismiss the list as the work of a country that does not know much about art but knows what it likes on a nice birthday card.

Populists may hail it as a triumph of popular taste over critics, conceptualists and postmodernists. And regionalists may regret that only two of the works on the list are in galleries outside London.

The Today programme and National Gallery summer scheme to find Britain's greatest painting was billed as an "exciting, inclusive chance to celebrate art" but it is already stirring up some silly season controversy.

    Canvassing opinion, Radio 4 fires debate over best painting, G, 16.8.2005,
    http://digital.guardian.co.uk/guardian/2005/08/16/pages/brd7.shtml

 

 

 

 

 

A whole new sentence

 

As the winners of the Penguin/Orange book club of the year, their prize should have been a weekend in Edinburgh. Just one problem: the members of the High Down reading group are in prison. The alternative? The chance to discuss a novel with its author. Up stepped Nick Hornby

A whole new sentence, headline and sub, G2, 12.8.2005,
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/aug/12/
orangeprizeforfiction2005.orangeprizeforfiction

 

 

 

 

 

MP's diary

Crèche landing

 

I had to vote and I was breastfeeding, so my baby got an early introduction to the House of Commons bar. Parliament desperately needs a crèche, argues Kitty Ussher

Monday August 22, 2005


Gradually the House of Commons is yielding up its secrets to new MPs like me: things you never know about a place until you're actually in the thick of it. My latest discovery before we all went off for summer recess was an intriguing room tucked away off one of the main House of Commons corridors with the words "Lady Members' Room" inscribed the door. As the first ever female MP for Burnley, I can safely say that none of my predecessors has ever been through that door. On the other side it's all very pleasant. Telly, comfy chairs, desks, a handful of "lady MPs" having a natter, a shower room and a bed. The bed amuses me. Surely the main time when MPs want to go to sleep is during those silly occasions when they have to stay up voting all night. In which case, who out of the 127 female MPs gets the bed? Do we have to queue?

Crèche landing, G, 22.8.2005,
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/aug/22/
politicalcolumnists.gender

 

 

 

 

 

My friends, the cycopaths

 

Like most cyclists I thought traffic lights were for wimps.
Then came the accident

Headline and sub,
G,
15.11.2004,
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/nov/15/
world.comment 

 

 

 

 

 

End of a ferry tale

 

As P&O decides to cut four of its cross-Channel routes, Gwyn Topham pays tribute to a different pace of travelling

Headline and sub, G, 29.9.2004,
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2004/sep/28/
travel.comment 

 

 

 

 

 

Fax of life

 

Thirty years ago tomorrow, Ceefax was accidentally discovered by BBC engineers, bringing about a revolution in the way TV viewers looked for information. But in the age of the internet, why do 20 million people a week still use it

Headline and sub, G, 22.9.2004,
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/sep/22/
media.broadcasting 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The bright stuff

 

In 1979, this newspaper published a list of 80 young people The Observer predicted would define the country's culture, politics and economics for a generation. Many went on to become household names. Now, 25 years on, we've decided to repeat the exercise. After months of nominations and hours of debate, here's our new selection of 80 prodigiously talented young people - scientists, DJs, novelists, architects, politicians - who we believe will shape our lives in the early 21st century

Headline and sub, O, 27.6.2004,
https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2004/jun/27/
featuresreview.review1

 

 

 

 

 

Canon fodder

 

The decision to appoint Canon Jeffrey John as its first gay bishop last year split the Church of England. In a revealing new book, the Guardian's religious correspondent Stephen Bates lays bare the politics, manoeuvring and hypocrisy behind one of the most ignoble episodes in the Church's history

Headline and sub, G, 18.6.2004,
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/18/
gayrights.bookextracts

 

 

 

 

 

Mind your manors

 

Gareth McLean's mum goes all Agatha Christie on him

in Yorkshire's Middlethorpe Hall hotel

Headline and sub, G, 3.3.2004,
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2004/mar/03/
hotels

 

 

 

 

 

Can we can the spam?

 

Anti-spam is now a growing business

as software firms bid to rid us of unwanted emails

- with varying degrees of success

Headline and sub, G, 8.3.2004,
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/mar/08/
spam.internet

 

 

 

 

 

Huttonise history

Headline, G, 3.2.2004,

https://www.theguardian.com/hutton/
story/0,13822,1140160,00.html

 

 

 

 

 

Homing in on the future

 

The high-tech house is no longer a distant dream.

Neil McIntosh reports from the Consumer Electronics Show

in Las Vegas

Headline and sub, G, 15.1.2004,
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1122873,00.html

 

 

 

 

 

Sir-fing the net

 

THE British computer scientist who created the World Wide Web and did not make a penny from it is knighted in the New Year honours.

Tim Berners-Lee developed the hypertext language of the internet, setting up the information superhighway on which documents on different computers are linked.

    Headline and first §§, M, 31.12.2003,
    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13769813
    _method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-SIR%2DFING%2DTHE%2DNET-name_page.html

 

 

 

 

 

Rock and royal legend

 

Paul Burrell's book about his life as Princess Diana's butler contains a mass of page-turning material. You only have to count the space which rival tabloids have given to the book's serialisation in the Daily Mirror to recognise that Mr Burrell's story is of huge interest to the public. Whether it contains material that meets a sterner public interest test is altogether a tougher call. Mr Burrell was once famously described by the princess as her "rock". He still pretends from time to time to be Goody Two-Shoes, as in his description of his first sight of his former employer's corpse - "What I witnessed before me was indescribable and it is not appropriate to explain further." But such coyness is not typical of Mr Burrell these days. For the most part, his book is an industrial strength bean-spilling exercise, just in time to ride the wave of Christmas book sales, and for which he has been massively rewarded.

Headline, G, 7.11.2003,
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/oct/24/
monarchy.pressandpublishing

 

 

 

 

 

Winning arts and minds

 

We asked you to nominate your favourite family-friendly museums and galleries. After sifting through hundreds of entries, these are the five our judges shortlisted to road test in the search for a winner

Headline and sub, G, 1.11.2003,
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2003/nov/01/
familyholidays.family.kidsinmuseumscampaign

 

 

 

 

 

Crocus pocus

 

Plant bulbs for a magical garden in springtime.

Headline / sub, web frontpage, DT, 18.10.2003.

 

 

 

 

 

Adventures in cider space

 

Turn your apples into something stronger

Headline, DT, web frontpage, 4.10.2003.

 

 

 

 

 

Intensive scare

 

When her premature baby was born by emergency Caesarean, Barbara Ellen knew the first months of Amy's life would be critical... Now, 12 months and 20lb later, she looks back at the nerve-racking weeks of drip feeds, bleeping monitors and medical expertise which made her daughter such a special delivery

Headline, O, 14.9.2003,

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2003/sep/14/
features.magazine37

 

 

 

 

 

Cops take a bite, or maybe a nibble,

out of cybercrime


Despite Blaster arrest, there's a long way to go

Headline, USA today, 2.9.2003,
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2003-09-01-blaster-cover_x.htm

 

 

 

 

 

Have a whale of a time on the sea off Wales

Headline, T, p. 33, 11.9.2003.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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