Endgame in Afghanistan: 'It's taken a year to move 20km'As the war in Afghanistan enters its final chapter, Sean Smith's brutal, uncompromising film from the Helmand frontline shows the horrific chaos of a stalemate that is taking its toll in blood.

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Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera

Dame Margot Fonteyn, one of Britain's most famous ballerinas, was "up to her neck" in a coup plot in Central America - along with Fidel Castro, according to government files released today at the National Archives.

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correct URL (sorry): British Elections Neither Free Nor Fair - damning stuff #uk #ge2010

Britain's reputation being damaged point by point - what a bunch of total buffoons #uk #bureaucracy

Intercepting mail is worthy of the Stasi - when will people wake up? (via @rlancefield) #policestate #uk

Explore two million pages of 19th century newspapers

A gorgeous new Hovis bread ad from Britain, depicting the last 122 years of British history:

A man who chose "Lloyds is pants" as his telephone banking password said he found it had been changed by a member of staff to "no it's not".

Local councils, health authorities and hundreds of other public bodies are to be given the power to access details of everyone's personal text, emails and internet use under Home Office proposals published yesterday. Ministers want to make it mandatory for telephone and internet companies to keep details of all personal internet traffic for at least 12 months so it can be accessed for investigations into crime or other threats to public safety. The Home Office last night admitted that the measure will mean companies have to store "a billion incidents of data exchange a day". As the measure is the result of an EU directive, the data will be made available to public investigators across Europe.

Five years ago, the biggest political protest in our history served to explode the myth of public apathy

Three weeks ago, the British Museum quietly launched its comprehensive website of what it calls flat art: mostly so far its enormous collection of prints and drawings.

Under a new law that went into effect this month, it is now a crime to refuse to turn a decryption key over to the police.

The researchers have established in laboratory experiments that it is caused by a bacterial infection which seems to be prompted by increases in water temperature.

A bra and a pair of knickers have been blamed for a flood and road collapse in County Durham.

Three million Britons have been issued with the new hi-tech passport, designed to frustrate terrorists and fraudsters. So why did Steve Boggan and a friendly computer expert find it so easy to break the security codes?

To its fans, the US supermarket chain Whole Foods Market is proof that green shopping can be glamorous. But its critics claim the store has got greedy and betrayed its organic ideals. And now it's coming to Britain.

Romeo and Juliet performed in Ranger and Celtic colours?

A huge ancient settlement used by the people who built Stonehenge has been found, archaeologists have said. Excavations at Durrington Walls, near the legendary Salisbury Plain monument, uncovered remains of ancient houses.

As more evidence of his role in the Iraq debacle emerges, it beggars belief that the Prime Minister hasn't been impeached