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The excessive and discriminatory use of stop-and-search powers is among the sorriest episodes in the history of the police over the past 30 years.

Ever since I began working on a search-and-rescue boat in the Mediterranean this May, I’ve been dreading the day that we would respond to a distress call only to arrive and find that it was too late.

Republicans are meat eaters, so on the eve of the forst big debate in Cleveland, it made sense to repair to Red, the best steakhouse in town.

It’s lucky George Osborne can be trusted on the economy, understands business and can repair our finances that were wrecked by Labour. Because it’s through such sound judgment that he’s succeeded in selling off Royal Bank of Scotland shares for £2.1bn, after the Government bought them for a mere £3.1bn in 2008.

Let’s say you were commuting in London yesterday. Would you have tried to beat the Tube strike by sharing a black cab and divvying up the costs? Or would you have been super-post-modern, and summoned an Uber car on your smartphone? If the latter, do you think you would have been pleased with the result? Or would you have found out – as many complained during the previous strike – that the caring, sharing economy is the same old capitalist wolf clad in a soft furry sheepskin?

We've had a lot of comments from our readers today about the Tube strikes. As you might expect, it has been a highly divisive issue. While the majority of tweets and comments posted have been in support of the strikes, a substantial minority have not. A selection of our favourites are gathered below.

I go on holiday tomorrow. Two weeks of staycation encompassing some far-flung, and varied, parts of Britain: Cornwall, East Lothian, Manchester and Oxfordshire. It’s the first time for many years that I’ve not gone abroad for my summer holiday, and I'm rather excited about the fact that I’m setting off down the A303 rather than heading to Terminal 5. I have the right currency and I don’t need to worry about having liquids in my hand luggage.

“I’m overworked but you don’t see me going on strike”. We’ve all heard this reaction to the latest tube strikes. But if you’re responding in this way to industrial action, you’re missing the point. There’s no use in criticising workers who refuse to let London Underground exploit them simply because you’re overworked: you should unionise.

Help me, hence, ho!, as Lady Macbeth might say, fainting to the ground. Look to the lady! And to all the other “real” theatregoers who might be currently swooning, because they have all been effectively excluded from experiencing their umpteenth version of Shakespeare’s other great tragedy, Hamlet.

Mmmmm. Sexual fantasies. The most portable sex aid – and, arguably, the one which causes the most distress.

Benedict Cumberbatch fans have been queuing throughout the night for the chance to see the actor play Hamlet at the Barbican.

According to numerous sources this week, Iggy Azalea has “finally admitted” to having plastic surgery. Others say she's “owned up”. A couple have even said she's “confessed”, the way one would to something terribly shameful, weighing down your conscience, necessary for somebody else to know. And in a way, of course, she has confessed. First she failed to conform to the accepted standards of beauty and was being openly mocked for it (notably by Snoop Dogg). Now she is conforming by surgically altering her looks. Читать дальше...

But the Cumberb**ches will ruin it for sophisticated theatre-goers with their cries of "I love you Benedict!", they said. The Sherlock fans will talk over the soliloquies, they said.

It is quite a testimony to the power of the personality of Camila Batmanghelidjh that her charity was able to secure so much government funding at a time when public spending is under severe pressure – and when the administration of Kids Company had attracted unwelcome, and serious, criticism. Successive prime ministers have entertained and been entertained by Ms Batmanghelidjh, and her hold on David Cameron was such that he was said to be “mesmerised” by her. Both he and Gordon Brown seemed to... Читать дальше...

The Giants Club is more than just a brilliant name – it is an ambitious roadmap for the conservation of a species literally under the gun. As any seasoned conservationist will tell you, it is only with political will and the glare of the media spotlight that the course of history can be bent in the opposite direction for an animal.

The achievements of Sir Peter Higgs in identifying his eponymous boson are just the tip of the iceberg. The UK should be proud of the fact that it is second only to the US when it comes to Nobel Prize awards, and proud of the range of institutions responsible for this ground-breaking research. For while no British university or laboratory is named in the world top 10 for Nobel Prizes, the fact that awards granted to UK researchers were not concentrated at one or two elite universities is good news too. Читать дальше...

A film with extensive, non-simulated sex scenes in 3D, has scarcely troubled the box office but seems fated to become the cause célèbre for an alleged new wave of prudishness in France.

Dear Nike,