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Thursday, 02 June 2011 00:19 |
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 By Matt Owen
Stevan Riley’s excellent Fire in Babylon covers how the West Indies of the late 1970s abandoned the flamboyant style of losing dubbed ”calypso cricket,” and morphed into a juggernaut of a side who went undefeated in a test series for more than fifteen years; James Erskine’s From the Ashes, meanwhile, presents the celebration of England’s 1981 Ashes win as a rare moment of national unity during a time in which Thatcher was introducing the country to her brutally divisive brand of neoliberalism.
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Thursday, 02 June 2011 00:16 |
By Rumbold
The latest figures from India’s national census make for grim reading. Between 2001 and 2011 the gender ratio (number of girls compared to number of boys per thousand) worsened, with only 914 girls for every 1000 boys being recorded, down from a ratio of 974:1000 in 1961. Some of the worst offending states, especially Haryana, did see slight improvements, but this was more than offset by the decline in Southern India, which traditionally has been less anti-female than the north. Much of the gap is due female foetuses being aborted. But infanticide (the killing of babies/infants) is also widespread, with young girls being murdered all over India.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 02 June 2011 00:18 |
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Wednesday, 01 June 2011 23:53 |
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 By Sunder Katwala
Seldom can any electorate have been offered a less attractive electoral choice than Sepp Blatter versus Mohammed Bin Hammam for the FIFA Presidency. That would have been like Nixon versus Nixon in a post-Watergate election in the United States. Yet Sepp Blatter has surpassed even that scenario. The election is off and the FIFA President plans to steam on, to be re-elected, unopposed, for a third term - whatever the cost to FIFA’s tattered public reputation.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 02 June 2011 00:01 |
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Wednesday, 01 June 2011 23:37 |
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 By Ahsan Butt
Four days ago, Saleem Shahzad, a journalist working for the Asia Times, penned this report on the extent of al-Qaeda’s infiltration in the Navy at lower levels, and how the attack on PNS-Mehran tied into an investigation of the same. At the top of the story, we read that “this is the first article in a two-part report”. How wrong he was. Two days ago, Saleem Shahzad disappeared. Today, he re-appeared, dead.
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Tuesday, 31 May 2011 16:09 |
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 By Mark Pack
The NHS Bill will be substantially changed – that was the message from Liberal Democrat MP and Health Minister Paul Burstow at Lewisham Liberal Democrats on Friday night. It won’t just be changed, he said, it will be changed in a distinctively Liberal Democrat direction.
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