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On the trail of Patrick Leigh Fermor in Greece

Kardamyli, on Greece's Mani peninsula, was home to Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor. Click the magnifying glass icon to see a map of the area. Photograph: Peter Kindersley/Getty Images Old Mr Fotis turned my…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 28, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2555 words)

How Google and Apple's digital mapping is mapping us

All mapped out … 'There's a fine line between this being really useful and it being creepy' Over the last few years, at the kinds of conferences where the world's technological elite gathers to…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 28, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2058 words)

This is how racism takes root

Five of the eight men convicted of child sex abuse in Derby: Mark Adaoui, John Shaw, Stefan Godfrey, Anthony Lambert and Ijaz Ahmed. Photograph: Caters News Agency By now surely everyone knows the…
PUBLISHED: July 22, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1676 words)

The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism

Raffles Place, Singapore … 'European withdrawal after the second world war was never in doubt.' Photograph: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images The British empire, George Orwell wrote, was "despotism with…
PUBLISHED: July 27, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3754 words)
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