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Cory Doctorow stands in the front line of campaigns to challenge hi-tech corporate power. Tom Chatfield questions a digital guerrilla
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Friday, 21 May 2010
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When spy author Len Deighton wrote his first cookery book, in 1965, it caused quite a stink – literally.
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Monday, 17 May 2010
iPads, apps, e-publishing...When did settling down with a good book become such hard work?
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Sunday, 16 May 2010
As pupils do some last-minute swotting up ahead of their English GCSE exams, former teacher Susan Elkin examines the changing nature of the syllabus
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