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History? It's history

If the past is another country, Ed Balls has just confiscated the passports of our schoolchildren Ed Balls has announced that primary school history is to be subsumed into an "area of learning" called "historical, geographical...

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This Spiritualized classic is the perfect prescription

Skiving school, gorging on cough mixture … popping open the blister-packed CDs of Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space brings it all back "A record that will change your life," is a phrase that gets bandied about too...

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Thorntons chocolates: After the meltdown

Peter Thornton was ousted from the family business – Thorntons chocolates – by his brothers and cousin. He talks about the bitter rivalries that ended his career Peter Thornton always knew he would inherit the family chocolate...

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Lunch with the FT: Evgeny Lebedev

Lunch with the FT: Evgeny Lebedev By Peter Aspden I wouldn’t dream of asking most of my Lunch with the FT guests what they are thinking of spending their money on in the near future. Right now this particular Russian, the...

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Princes William and Harry give thousands for charity

Prince William and Prince Harry have used money left to them by their mother to secretly set up a charity. The brothers are believed to have donated a six-figure sum to create a foundation funding causes for underprivileged...

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Killed by the curse of Michael Jackson: What drove the father of Jordy Chandler to put a gun to...

He earned millions in hush money after exposing Michael Jackson for abusing his son - then underwent plastic surgery 19 times to hide from vengeful fans. But why did Jordy Chandler's father put an end to his life?

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Fake That: The uncanny world of America's biggest celebrity-lookalike convention

Holy mackerel! Look over there! Isn't that Richard Gere, with his dreamy silver hair and professorial wire spectacles, taking a leak in the Gents? And OhMiGaaaad, am I seeing things or is that Sarah Palin holding a conversation...

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Glenn Gibbons: Scotland's decline is so steep

Published Date: 21 November 2009 IN THE course of a BBC documentary back in 1985, Bobby Charlton made a statement which, to anyone under the age of, say, 30 nowadays will sound like a fairy tale. His claim concerned Scotland's...

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Stars' worst big mouth blunders

THEY'VE got their own clothes range, a couple of mil in the bank and a rock star on the arm, but celebs are still pining for one thing ... common sense. "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels," she quipped, obviously not...

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Literary giant Gray mixes whisky with a dash of Walt Disney

Published Date: 21 November 2009 HE has designed album covers, murals and penned the eccentric and elaborate illustrations for his own books. Now Alasdair Gray, one of Scotland's greatest living writers, has followed Pablo...

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