If YouTube has sprung from nowhere in five years, will it be in the internet graveyard alongside Friends Reunited in five years’ time?
It’s time to tackle homophobia on the terraces and in the dressing room, say many people in football. Patrick Barkham reports.
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/ 22 January 2010
Patrick Barkham explains why international TV phenomenon <em>Top Gear</em> is more than just a television show.
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/ 8 December 2008
Patrick Barkham thought he was a good driver until a green driving test showed he wasn’t.
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/ 18 September 2008
Linking the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Aden is one of the world’s most important trading routes. It is also the most feared.
After discussing famine in Africa, the peckish politicians and five spouses took on four bite-size amuse-bouches to tickle their palates.
Bringing an all-women group of Guinean soldiers to Trafalgar Square for an Africa Day festival. Having a mug of tea with firefighters from Dagenham. Calling your transport commissioner ”mate”. Cycling to work. Mocking ”crazed Thatcherite neocons”. Appointing a black deputy for young people.
The accountancy firm that looks after children’s entertainers the Wiggles is not an obvious place to search for the Holy Grail, but that’s where the trail led on Tuesday night. It started with a simple quest — what on earth is a large advertisment headlined ”The Ancient & Noble Order of The Knights Templar” doing in the Daily Telegraph?
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/ 22 January 2008
Peter Singer helped to create the animal rights movement and now he wants to change the way we eat. He tells Patrick Barkham why McDonald’s, GM crops and food miles are not all bad.
It was billed as the day they would bring the eight most powerful nations to their knees by sitting in the road, but by 9am the idealists, anticapitalists and anarchists had already been forced to take a hike. James Foley (22), a student from Glasgow, Scotland, had risen at 7.15am at the tent city in Rostock to join thousands of anti-G8 demonstrators marching on the luxurious Baltic spa resort of Heiligendamm, where world leaders were gathering.