How the UK tabloids covered the shooting.
Steven Vass
When will the news media learn that by making atrocities seem special and memorable, they are playing into the killer’s game?
‘Are you listening, John Whittingdale?“
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Thick of It satirist’s MacTaggart lecture was a call for unity to secure British public broadcasting.
EPA/Andy Rain
Chaos over a purported leftist influx is roiling the Labour party – but the worst effects are yet to come.
A memorial to murdered journalists Alison Parker and Adam Warm lies outside the offices of WDBJ7.
Reuters/Chris Keane
New research suggests mass shootings are not just due to gun ownership, but gun culture.
The nation’s last emperor was followed by chaos, but more recently triumph
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Authoritarian and landlocked it may be, but Addis Ababa will mark its last emperor’s death as a model of development.
All spaces should be safe.
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We must place the responsibility for preventing assault firmly on men’s shoulders.
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The communities ravaged by Ebola need mental health support to help people rebuild their lives.
Relentless scorn.
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The government’s recent Green Paper spells our a vision of far smaller BBC. Coincidentally, this is just what Rupert Murdoch and his newspapers have campaigned for over decades.
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From both left and right come accusations that the BBC is biased. The truth is that the Beeb has links to all sides of politics – as you would expect.
Up in arms.
Reuters/Murad Sezer
Turkey’s political factions, hardly friends at the best of times, are more divided and mutually suspicious than ever.
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If you want to see how the market failure model works, look across the Atlantic at PBS and NPR and be afraid.
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Calls for the BBC to be regulated by an external body are part of a plan to shackle the public broadcaster.
Ukraine takes a hit: shell damage in Donetsk.
Reuters/Alexander Ermochenko
Ukraine is waging a war of self-defence against an international aggressor. We should stop pretending otherwise.
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Stunning returns from Bolt, Farah and Ennis-Hill make the competition in Beijing one of the best yet.
Too many older people feel socially excluded.
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Older people aren’t all lonely for the same reasons – we need different solutions to help them feel socially included.
British foreign secretary Anthony Eden having a confidential chat with Soviet ambassador Ivan Maisky.
The Scheffer-Voskressenski family.
Ivan Maisky was Russia’s ambassador to the Court of St James from 1932 to 1943. By charming his way into Britain’s inner circles he arguably passed on more secrets than the infamous Cambridge Five.
It’s lonely at the top.
Reuters/AlkisKonstantinidis
After 206 turbulent days in power, Alexis Tsipras now presides over a coalition in tatters.
EPA/Zoltan Balogh
The UK and France have come up with a solution to the migrant crisis – stick up another new barrier.
I could’ve sworn there were more of you yesterday…
EPA/Facundo Arrizabalaga
If Labour really is turfing “infiltrators” out of its purportedly open leadership election, it’s only proving that moderate centrism is often no such thing.
Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
Authoritarianism has failed to keep Egypt stable and secure, but General al-Sisi’s government is nonetheless doubling down.
Not so secure.
Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
Islamic State’s Egyptian affiliate has been terrorising the Sinai Peninsula for months – and now it’s upping the ante.
Will Gatlin have more bolt than Usain?
Reuters/Matthew Childs
Your guide to the events to watch and the athletes to follow in Beijing.
Palestinian workers on the West Bank.
Reuters/Ammar Awad
Israeli employers have always had a complicated relationship with Palestinian workers – and it’s getting worse.
Will we ever know what he knows?
EPA/Andy Rain
The Iraq inquiry, launched in 2009, still hasn’t published its report.
Man of the hour.
Reuters/Jason Lee
Coe must put an end to a dark era of athletics.