Новости за 07.08.2015

Less than an hour before she arrives in the lobby of a budget business hotel in the centre of Malmo, Cora has witnessed Sweden’s much-praised sex-purchase law in action.

British travellers are blessed with the best aviation industry in the world. Besides being implausibly safe, it is highly competitive.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad economic news, but it turns out there is another deficit to deal with. While everyone else in the world has been mithering about Grexits and Libors, the really major economic black hole of our time has been ignored. It’s time to tackle the male sexual deficit.

Fifty years ago, Sir Edward Heath became leader of the Conservative Party. To mark this anniversary, two Sundays ago, the BBC Parliament channel staged a marathon "Edward Heath Night" with hours of film footage covering his career as party leader, prime minister, defenestration by Margaret Thatcher and his "Incredible Sulk" on the backbenches for a further 25 years.

Anjem Choudary, Britain’s loudest Islamist extremist, has finally been remanded in custody, charged under section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The charge is related to him sending messages to his 32,000 followers on Facebook, allegedly encouraging people to join Isis. His guilt or innocence is a matter for the courts. What concerns me here is his trajectory.

There's something about August. Like all of us, British prime ministers need a summer break, but theirs are often interrupted.

State school applicants from run-of-the-mill comprehensives apparently report feeling out of place when they attend elite universities. I never did, but this may be because my halls of residence looked like the badly constructed theatre set of a post-apocalyptic dystopian play: mysterious handprints on the walls, urine-soaked sinks in every cell-like bedroom, and hordes of dead-eyed people wandering the hallways and occasionally weeping.

“Crisis? What Crisis?” For more than three years, after September 1975, that phrase simply referred to the fourth album by the prog-rock outfit Supertramp. Only in January 1979 did a Sun headline – a twisted paraphrase of PM James Callaghan’s denial of “mounting chaos” from strikes – inscribe it as an epitaph for the post-1945 social settlement.

You may find this difficult to believe (in this age of political wonderment, what isn’t?), but even those of us who delight you with political commentary have the capacity for self-doubt. We may suffer the same phobia about admitting mistakes which we find so distasteful in the generic politician. Yet every now and again, something or someone has enough seismic power to wobble a smug certainty until it topples over.

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The late Spike Milligan once remarked that he had arranged to meet a friend in the bar at London’s Barbican Centre and was still trying to find him three days later. For all its many facelifts, it remains a notoriously tricky place to navigate. But, suddenly that seems to have become an advantage for staff and star performer.

I didn’t want to leave the UK. When I moved to Amsterdam it was with the promise that my partner and I would hoover up the inflated salaries we were being offered and then use our loot to buy a small house in the North of England. We’d be back within a year, tops, to settle down in a postcode with a Lidl and a very nice independent cinema that we’d forget to go to whenever a new series of The Walking Dead was added to Netflix.

Attractive charity fundraisers are more likely to receive donations, whereas that colleague who misses you out in the tea round will struggle for sponsorship signatures, according to research.

Tessa Jowell and I have been personal friends and political colleagues for years. What particularly brought us together was a shared passion about inequality in childhood - especially the way in which disadvantage was exacerbated by loneliness, vulnerability and lack of confidence in so many new mothers.

Teen pupils across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland had better hope their GCSE results are good next week – because new research shows parents reward their children with an average of £104 for getting good grades.

An Ibiza apartment with a stunning sea view is opening its doors for visitors to stay for free this summer.

Technically, I’m Catholic. I was baptised, I made my communion, I was confirmed, and I’ve not been excommunicated yet. I was raised by one atheist and one fairly philosophical agnostic - my father - who acknowledged the validity of my doubt but embraced the ritual of church-going. More importantly, he embraced the ambivalence of what God is. I remember going through a militant teenage phase, reeking to high heaven of Richard Dawkins and the Beginner’s Guide to Existentialism, sitting in the car... Читать дальше...

The good news is that rates of teenage pregnancies are at record lows. In 2014 in England and Wales they were at the lowest rate since 1946, with only 15.6 pregnancies per 1,000 women younger than 20.

As I have travelled around the country it has been exciting to see a new generation engage with politics, and older people re-engage. I don’t make personal attacks and do not respond to them. Instead we must debate policy and give people confidence that we can win. But in the coverage of my campaign so far, four misconceptions keep reappearing. I want to address them.

Queensland Ballet comes to London being very Scottish. Peter Schaufuss’s production of La Sylphide has plenty of tartan and misty glades, with fresh dancing from this Australian company.

It is impossible to conjure up the agony visited upon Hiroshima’s 70 years ago as you walk around the rebuilt city, with its airy shopping centres and tree-lined boulevards.