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Skill
The Guardian:
The sense of anticipation was palpable. The Chelsea support had bellowed their approval before kick-off when his name was called out and they did so again, only louder, on 59 minutes when he prepared to make his professional (Read More)
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The territories of Francis Bacon's soul have been explored widely; they have been the subject of a film, books and endless speculation. But the senior art historian John Richardson – who, at 85, is working on the last volume (Read More)
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The territories of Francis Bacon's soul have been explored widely; they have been the subject of a film, books and endless speculation. But the senior art historian John Richardson – who, at 85, is working on the last volume (Read More)
The Guardian:
New skills could be included in literacy lessonsPrimary school children should be taught to understand the "language" of advertisers and spin doctors to stop them becoming too susceptible to sophisticated campaigns, it has be (Read More)
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Was it Thomas Cromwell's machinations, a frustrated MP's diaries, or a novelist's treatment of his father's suicide? We asked a few people…Peter Carey – novelistKamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury) has huge ambition a (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Martin Johnson's journeymen are impossible to define as a 15-man entity, except as an unreliable bulldozerTwickenham had been a graveyard for the imagination, a cemetery for entertainment, until England summoned the old stand (Read More)
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Clare Clark on a tangled family webMaya de Jong, an 18-year-old girl from small-town western Australia, moves to Melbourne. There she tentatively embraces her adult self, renting a room in the house of an experimental film-ma (Read More)
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Suffering from 'novel nausea', Zadie Smith wonders if the essay lives up to its promiseWhy do novelists write essays? Most publishers would rather have a novel. Bookshops don't know where to put them. It's a rare reader who s (Read More)
The Guardian:
Of course the English don't hate, despise nor fear the French, but an incident in a game of football in France requires a leading broadsheet English newspaper to cover the story by an article on its front page (Hands-on Henry (Read More)
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Peter Thornton was ousted from the family business – Thorntons chocolates – by his brothers and cousin. He talks about the bitter rivalries that ended his careerPeter Thornton always knew he would inherit the family chocolate (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
If the past is another country, Ed Balls has just confiscated the passports of our schoolchildrenEd Balls has announced that primary school history is to be subsumed into an "area of learning" called "historical, geographical (Read More)
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• Breadmaker to stop Canadian imports in the new year• Move welcomed by National Farmers' UnionBritain's farmers were given a boost today when bread maker Hovis announced that it plans to use only British wheat across its ent (Read More)
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• Shortage threatens low-carbon targets, argues business group• Gap comes as demand for scientists and engineers increasingBritain lacks the skills or training facilities to make the successful transition to a low-carbon econ (Read More)
The Guardian:
After a turbulent 500 years it is understandable – I sometimes feel like putting my feet up too – but it is a mistakeIt's not true that last night's appointments at the EU's Brussels conclave are without historic precedence. (Read More)
The Guardian:
Whether playing, training, warming up, warming down or simply travelling, the English sportsman is an accident waiting to happenAre the English the world's most injury‑prone people? Certainly the recent plague of afflictions (Read More)
The Guardian:
My mother, Hella Adler, who has died aged 102, was one of the last of the generation of German refugees who were rightly called "Hitler's gift" to Britain. In 1936 she followed my father, Gerhard Adler, from Berlin to London, (Read More)
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The plane, carrying a medical patient and four others, had been unable to refuel due to stormy weatherAn Australian pilot has been hailed as a hero after safely guiding his plane – carrying a medical patient and four others – (Read More)
The Guardian:
Previous generations could access any number of groanworthy gags to lighten the atmosphere: where has that skill gone?As the current obsession with offensive comedy and its boundaries rumbles on, commentators and pontificator (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Richard Dunwoody advises Richard Johnson to switch agents• Sam Stronge believes agent's grip will be hard to breakSam Stronge, once a client of the jockeys' agent Dave Roberts but now one of his competitors, said yesterday (Read More)
The Guardian:
Asda's saviour is known for his skill in engineering turnaroundsArchie Norman is the only FTSE 100 chairman to have sat in the Commons. The company in question was Asda, which was so troubled when he took it on in 1991 that h (Read More)
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