Scandals of sexminster: The Cabinet Minister who made passes at Etonians and the MP who paid 14-year-old boys for floggings Allegations of paedophiles in Westminster in 1980s have shocked nationHowever sex scandal and politics have gone hand-in-hand for centuriesLabour MP Chris Bryant lifts the lid on Westminster's scandolous secrets By Chris Bryant Published: 21:13 GMT, 12 July 2014 | Updated: 12:55 GMT, 13 July 2014 The allegation that a paedophile ring operated in Westminster in the 1980s is the most shocking crisis to hit the Houses of Parliament in recent memory.
The moral enigma: Bletchley Park's code breaker Alan Turing was a genius who undoubtedly helped defeat Hitler. So why do I believe it's wrong to pardon him for breaking the anti-gay laws of his time? By Max Hastings Published: 22:16 GMT, 26 July 2013 | Updated: 22:53 GMT, 28 July 2013 Even at Bletchley, where standards of eccentricity were high, Turing's strangeness was apparent The word ‘genius’ should be used as sparingly as ‘hero’, if either is to mean anything.
But it certainly applies to Alan Turing, the mathematician and logician, and ‘father of the modern computer’, who played a critical war-time role in breaking the ciphers of Nazi Germany at Bletchley Park. Turing came to a wretched end. One day in 1954, aged only 41, he could bear his predicament no longer, and killed himself by eating an apple coated in cyanide. Many people, many times in the intervening 60 years, have expressed regret and indeed shame that our country treated this great man so abominably. Downing Street apologies have become fashionable in recent times. Tony Blair abased himself about the Irish famine and slavery, the execution of World War I deserters and much else.
The spy who loathed me: Newly-released MI5 files have reignited a feud between John le Carre and the family of the genius who inspired his greatest creation - spymaster George Smiley. A controversial book by a top doctor claims being overweight can help you fight disease - and even live longer. By Dr Carl Lavie Published: 00:36 GMT, 7 June 2014 | Updated: 08:31 GMT, 7 June 2014 Consider the various bits of advice doled out by so-called medical experts in the past 100 years or so and you’ll realise how often there has been a complete about-turn when it comes to the validity of a certain fact, claim, or practice.
At one time or another, scientists deemed it acceptable to use X-rays to measure shoe size, recommended baby formula over breast milk, and even endorsed cigarette smoking. Looking back, it seems incredible that we were ever misled in this way and yet I believe that we are currently subject to one of the greatest misconceptions of all — the belief that obesity is necessarily bad for us. Beneficial? TOM UTLEY: I've been to the doctor four times in 45 years - and each time it sent my blood pressure soaring. By Tom Utley PUBLISHED: 00:37 GMT, 28 March 2014 | UPDATED: 12:08 GMT, 28 March 2014 There was nothing very new about this week's finding, by the University of Exeter Medical School, that a patient's fear of medics can produce misleadingly high blood pressure readings The last time I had my blood pressure taken was more than 30 years ago, when I was forced to submit to a medical before starting a new job.
Scandal of the university students who get fewer than 100 hours' teaching a year. History students at York spend 8% of their course in lectures and seminarsBut at University College London they'll receive more than triple the timeCritics say many fee-paying students are getting a 'very raw deal' By Jonathan Petre Published: 22:58 GMT, 27 April 2013 | Updated: 16:43 GMT, 1 May 2013 Huge differences in the face-to-face teaching time students receive at Britain's top universities have been exposed by new official figures.
Some undergraduates – paying tuition fees of £9,000 a year – get fewer than half the hours of lectures, seminars and tutorials than others studying the same subject at another university. Critics say the disparities mean many are getting a 'very raw deal' and accuse some universities of failing to offer value for money. Some undergraduates get fewer than half the hours of lectures, seminars and tutorials than others studying the same subject at another university. Heroic ancestors of Blackadder stars who reveal truth about the Great War... And sorry, Baldrick, they prove Mr Gove was right. Michael Gove said the Left is encouraging us to view war 'through fictional prism of dramas such as Blackadder'Said drama portrayed Great War as a 'misbegotten shambles'However, many relatives of show's stars fought in the Great WarHugh Laurie’s great-uncle served in Canadian Light InfantryBen Elton's grandfather bravely fought for the Central Powers By Guy Walters Published: 22:01 GMT, 10 January 2014 | Updated: 09:54 GMT, 11 January 2014 The conflict has been brutal and attritional.
But neither side in the extraordinarily heated debate about how Britain is to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I shows any signs of being ready to surrender. First to go over the top in this modern-day trench war was Education Secretary Michael Gove, who robustly argued in the Mail that the Left is encouraging us to view the war ‘through the fictional prism of dramas such as Oh! Edward Snowden speaks: NSA contractor who leaked details of surveillance scheme reveals himself. Edward Snowden, a former CIA technical assistant, has fled to Hong KongHe wants Hong Kong's free speech laws to save him from extraditionLeaked details of Prism, which he says harvests personal data from web'What they're doing (poses) a threat to democracy,' Snowden saysSpies at GCHQ in UK accused of using it, bypassing British legal checksWilliam Hague to give statement to Commons on alleged links to PrismU.S.
National Intelligence director says surveillance keeps America safe Defense contractor employer of Edward Snowden says leaks are 'shocking' By Ian Drury and Martin Robinson Published: 19:09 GMT, 9 June 2013 | Updated: 16:15 GMT, 10 June 2013 Whistleblower: Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former CIA technical assistant, revealed he had passed classified information on Prism to the media and then fled to Hong Kong. JOHN KAMPFNER: The public has a right to know who's charged with a crime. This police secrecy insults democracy.
By John Kampfner Published: 22:56 GMT, 2 May 2013 | Updated: 13:06 GMT, 3 May 2013 Yes, in the end it was a small spat that was sorted out quickly.
But the refusal by Warwickshire police to name one of its officers charged with stealing from the force was not just worrying on its own account: the decision highlights an alarming trend in British public life towards secrecy. On Wednesday, the Midlands force put out a bland statement saying that ‘a 54-year-old man from the Stratford area has been charged with the theft of £113,000 from the former Warwickshire police head-quarters at Leek Wootton. ‘The man, a retired police officer, will appear before magistrates in Leamington on May 22.’
The man who didn't shoot Hitler. At that moment on September 28, 1918, the Tommy lowered his weapon indicating that he would not kill an already injured and retreating enemy.
The German nodded his thanks and then disappeared. It was an act of humanity that was typical of Private Henry Tandey, the Victoria Cross winner who emerged from the terrible conflict as the most decorated surviving British soldier. But as he stood in the bombed wreckage of his home in Coventry 22 years later, after the city was laid waste by a Lu?
Ftwaffe raid, Tandey regretted the compassion he had shown. For, as he had discovered only a few years previously, the adversary whose life he had spared that fateful day was Adolf Hitler. How had Tandey learned the astonishing news that he was the “man who didn’t shoot Hitler”? Bradley Manning: the angry young man who turned whistleblower. Tasker Milward school in Haverfordwest closed a week or so ago for the summer holidays, and its peeling black metal gates on Tuesday opened on to an almost empty car park, the three-storey red brick and cream building nearly deserted in the warm Pembrokeshire afternoon.
In term time, 1,200 pupils mill around the grounds, representing a significant chunk of the young people in the small town of 13,000, situated at the very westernmost tip of Wales. It is less than a decade since one of those spilling out of these gates in a red polo shirt and bottle green sweatshirt with a red dragon crest was a diminutive blond 17-year-old with a thick Oklahoma twang, just 1.57 metres (5ft 2in) tall and weighing only 47.43kg (7½ stone). In the years since he left Tasker Milward, Bradley Manning has become arguably the highest profile whistleblower of his generation, the source of the biggest data leak in US military history and will continue to be a hero to some, a traitor to others.
Liverpool retained list: Find out who Brendan Rodgers is keeping and letting go this summer - Mirror Online. The Reds have handed their end-of-season squad list to the Premier League - find out who has been cut below Liverpool have released seven players as they began a summer clearout at Anfield. England Under 20 striker Michael Ngoo, who spent last season on loan at Walsall, has been made surplus to requirements. Yalany Baio, Villyan Bijev, Mersin Yusuf and Craig Roddan join him, while promising defenders Stephen Sama and Jakub Sokolik have also been cut. Meanwhile Victor Moses and Aly Cissokho have returned to Chelsea and Valencia respectively, following their unsuccessful loan stays.
Fabio Borini and Oussama Assaidi, Tiago Ilori and Suso have all come back from their loan spells. Find out all the latest Liverpool transfer news and rumours here.