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Ukip: the party that's coming in from the cold

Nigel Farage: the former Tory first became leader of Ukip in 2006. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters In the long slipstream of this year's party conference season, British politics seems to have gone…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2383 words)

Torture UK: why Britain has blood on its hands

Military personnel escort detainees to a US interrogation centre at at Kandahar airport, Afghanistan. Photograph: AP When the US and its allies went to war in Afghanistan in 2001, it was inevitable…
AUTHOR:Ian Cobain
PUBLISHED: Oct. 19, 2012
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4406 words)

The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal

Drugs are tested by their manufacturers, in poorly designed trials, on hopelessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative patients, and analysed using techniques that exaggerate the benefits.…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 21, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4207 words)

Stairway to heaven and hell: the rise and fall of Led Zeppelin

'Zeppelin became a religion' ... Robert Plant (left) and Jimmy Page. Photograph: Ian Dickson/Redferns "This social phenomenon – in no way was it ever in existence in the past and in no way will it…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1537 words)

Patti Smith: how she rocks our world

‘Simultaneously defiant and vulnerable’: Patti Smith in 1977. Photograph: Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis The lasting image is also the first: the photograph of Patti Smith that everyone knows was taken just…
PUBLISHED: May 27, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2914 words)

The wrong Carlos: how Texas sent an innocent man to his death

'Los tacoyos Carlos' – Hernandez and DeLuna looked so alike that they were sometimes mistaken for twins. Photographs: Corpus Christi police department/DeLuna family/Hernandez family/Texas dept of…
PUBLISHED: May 15, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1877 words)

Ken Livingstone: 'This isn't a race to elect a chat-show host'

Ken Livingstone with his dog Cocoa Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian The last time I met Ken Livingstone we had a bit of a row about electoral strategy. He told me that voters respect him…
PUBLISHED: April 25, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2525 words)

The woman who edited Nuts magazine

Between the sheets: Terri White with the magazine that launched her career. Photograph: Harry Borden for the Observer As the sound of jazz filled the air in the office that night I diligently got on…
PUBLISHED: April 22, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3854 words)

Hannah Rothschild on Nica: 'I saw a woman who knew where she belonged'

Thelonious Monk and Nica de Koenigswarter at the Five Spot jazz club, New York, 1964: 'She’s in love with him: the way she gazes at him… but I don’t believe that sex was at the heart of it.'…
PUBLISHED: April 22, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3158 words)
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