18 May 2013
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Long reads
- The story of how the tin can nearly wasn't
- Marwa's story: 10 years since the bomb fell
- When Ian Fleming picked my grandfather to steal Nazi secrets
- The ex-POW teaching Vietnam to swim
- Hillary Clinton's long journey
- Did Operation Ore change British society?
- Mitt Romney's English Mormon roots
- The Cold War rival to Eurovision
- Thankful villages where everyone came back from the wars
- Inside story of the UK's secret mission to beat Gaddafi
- A forgotten hero of World War II
- Charles Tegart and the forts that tower over Israel
- The 73 minutes that changed my life
- On the trail of Orwell’s outcasts
- In Steinbeck's footsteps across US
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From Our Own Correspondent
- The smuggled chocolate treats of North Korea
- African fly-catchers beating disease
- A violent land between Caucasus and Caspian
- Hungary's rawest nerve: Living with Roma
- The 'hero' thief and the crooked taxman
- Finding the perfect musical wood
- Getting behind Israeli 'frankness'
- Rome's charioteers trot into the sunset
- Hunting for rebels on 'Mars' in Mali
- The Indian town with 6,000 widows
- The riches beneath Mongolia's Turquoise Hill
- Suu Kyi: Icon to political player
Previously in A Point of View
- Tom Ripley and a talent for evil (John Gray)
- Leaving Gormenghast (JG)
- Ghosts in the material world (JG)
- Bitcoin's promise of freedom (JG)
- The pain when children fly the nest (Adam Gopnik)
- How different is science from magic? (AG)
- The foibles of four countries (AG)
- What's the secret to a happy marriage? (AG)
- Chess and 18th Century artificial intelligence (AG)
- Crowd-sourcing comets (Lisa Jardine)
- Mary queen of maths (LJ)
- The art of collecting (LJ)
- The winter queen (LJ)
- Why does everyone hate Birmingham? (David Cannadine)
- The world's loveliest train station (DC)
- The bear truth (DC)
- Roll up for the inauguration (DC)
- Staring at the Shard (Will Self)
- The biggest decision (WS)
- A bizarre view of Americans (WS)
- The British vomitorium (WS)
- And all shall worship money... (WS)
- Nostalgia - it's not like it used to be (WS)
- Which comes first - trust or trustworthiness? (Onora O'Neill)
- When students answer back (Mary Beard)
- Pompeii's not-so-ancient Roman remains (MB)
- Why rules aren't pick-and-mix (MB)
- Why the rich look down on the poor (MB)
- Is China more democratic than the West? (Martin Jacques)
- How China sees a multicultural world (MJ)
- What kind of superpower could China be? (MJ)
- Making sense of China (MJ)
- What is history's role in society? (Sarah Dunant)
- The strange allure of teeth (SD)
- Charity shop blues (SD)
- And prizes for all (SD)
- Does the sex debate exclude men? (SD)
- JG Ballard and the alchemy of memory (John Gray)
- Does democracy always equal freedom? (JG)
- The enduring appeal of Sherlock Holmes (JG)
- Are tyrants good for art? (JG)
- Why sales of stamps flourish in tough times (JG)
- Would you want to live forever? (JG)
- What would Keynes do? (JG)
- A time when violence is normal (JG)
- The curse of a ridiculous name (Adam Gopnik)
- Don’t mention the war? (AG)
- How to get your own back on your critics (AG)
- Why are the Beatles still so popular? (AG)
- Teenagers and embarrassing parents (AG)
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Murder in Mayfield
Warp speed
Nudge, nudge
Lots of guns, no drugs
Heavens above!
Life of two halves
Cannibal acts
Discussing Uganda
Jennie's story
Bouncing bombs
Vintage espionage
Pipe dreams
'Ungoogleable'
Hands up
Fat chance
Dog days
Broken wings
Summing up
Schoolboy errors



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