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'Petrified' Tate staff blame new managers
Thursday, 25 August 2011
Complaints that managers brought in to cut costs have brought with them a whole new regime designed to 'get rid of people'
Headteacher's killer cleared of robbery
Thursday, 25 August 2011
The killer of the headmaster Philip Lawrence in 1995 was cleared yesterday of using his notoriety to intimidate and rob a young man at a cash machine.
Staff paint a grim picture of bullying culture at the Tate
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Rob Sharp: Survey found 13% of the 586 employees questioned said they had experienced bullying.
Police baffled by mystery of amnesiac found on Kent beach
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Rob Hastings: A week on, 'Frank's' true identity is still bewildering police and the local community.
French strike threat to Eurotunnel
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Channel Tunnel shuttle train services run by Eurotunnel are facing the threat of strike action by French unions over the bank holiday weekend.
Anger over pay for RBS contractors
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
A union today pressed Royal Bank of Scotland to explain its use of contractors after a recruitment agency mistakenly emailed the details of hefty pay packets for thousands of temporary staff.
'Ridiculous' health and safety bans challenged
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Ministers publish list of bans linked to health and safety rules being wrongly used to curtail personal freedoms.
Amnesty call to halt eviction of Essex travellers
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Human rights campaigners have called for a halt to the eviction of families living on the UK's largest illegal travellers' site.
Rally held over Plymouth City Council union row
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Workers will hold a rally today in protest at a council's decision to derecognise a leading trade union.
More bad news for Megrahi: Scottish probation officers are on his trail
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Jonathan Brown: Scottish justice officials have yet to make contact with freed Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.
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• Donald Macintyre: Freedom in Libya is no longer a wild fantasy
In Hisham Matar's mesmerising novel In The Country of Men, set in 1979 Tripoli, 10 years after Muammar Gaddafi came to power, the nine-year-old narrator's mother, driven to distraction by fear about the fate of her oppositionist husband, explodes in anger at his closest comrade over what she sees as the futility of protest: "Clouds," she said. "Only clouds. They gather then flit away. What are you people thinking? You saw what happened three years ago when those students dared to speak. They hanged them by the necks. And now we are condemned to witness the whole thing again. The foolish dreamers. And it's foolish and irresponsible to encourage them."
• John Walsh: App-ril is the cruellest month?
When Faber & Faber announced in June they were offering TS Eliot's The Waste Land as an iPad app, a lot of us Luddites snorted and rolled our eyes to heaven, and said, "My dear, what would poor Tom Stearns have made of this?" But we agreed that, if you really couldn't get to grips with the actual words of the Modernist masterpiece, the app certainly offered you a lot for £7.99 – recordings of the poem being read by Alec Guinness, Ted Hughes, Viggo Mortensen and TSE himself (sounding like a depressed bank manager throughout); a dramatised, intensely physical reading by Fiona Shaw; and hyperlinked commentaries from 30-odd literary chaps from Seamus Heaney to Craig Raine.
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