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Not the best motto for the BBC under the circumstances.
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A cabinet reshuffle has reflected the standing of the Chancellor after a successful campaign. The hope will be that the flexibility that got him here continues.
Morning after: how the nationals covered the election.
Paperboy
So that’s that, then. The pollsters got it wildly wrong and the UK did not wake up on Friday to endless debates about coalitions, minority governments and who would deal with whom. Instead a startled “national…
The big story of the election, it turns out, is that the big story of the election has been utterly and completely wrong all along. The media narrative of the campaign, like many others preceding it, was…
Experts provide a rolling response, live as the results come in for the 2015 general election.
Hydrothermal vents on the seafloor hold the key to understanding the evolution of cellular life.
Centre for Geobiology (University of Bergen, Norway) by R.B. Pedersen
The front pages of the Sun and the Scottish Sun on Thursday morning provided further evidence of Roy Greenslade’s recent assertion that the idea of a national press is a fallacy. In images which appear…
Islamic State recruitment.
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In a recent interview with Scottish Television’s Debi Edwards, the leader of the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon spoke about the sexism she routinely encounters. Referring to the fact that her appearance is regularly…
Miliband might have to canvas some more after the election.
Chris Radburn/PA