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Clarion started in 2001 as a group
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the proposed war of aggression against Iraq in 2003, but it no longer
campaigns or presents any editorial position.
It is now maintained by Stephen Hewitt.
4 September 2023 |
Add Former MI5 employees Cathy Massiter and another revealing telephone tapping and infiltration of unions and CND in a 1985 press cutting
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31 August 2023 |
Add A 1991 letter from John Pilger on a newspaper's coverage of his documentary on Cambodia
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31 July 2023 |
Add A design for passwords with system-assigned randomness and user choice
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30 June 2023 |
Add Making coffee from unground beans
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25 May 2023 |
Add Measured efficiency of an induction hob and an electric kettle heating water
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7 May 2023 |
Add Illustrating two causes of inefficiency in electric kettles sold in the 2020s
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23 April 2023 |
Add Cape gooseberry plants with fruit under glass photographed in England in April
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16 April 2023 |
Add Notes on the radiation spectrum for solar heating and sky cooling
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7 April 2023 |
Update Compilation of information on ‘Strategic Investment’ newsletter
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29 March 2023 |
Add Higher net power from a solar kettle heating water in glass rather than copper
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20 January 2023 |
Add Testing cheap insulators on a home-made parabolic trough solar kettle
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8 January 2023 |
Add Trying bubble wrap as an insulator for a home-made solar kettle
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23 December 2022 |
Add Trying silicone tubing as an insulator for a home-made solar kettle
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18 December 2022 |
Add A recipe for meals of natural ingredients cooked with only a kettle
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9 December 2022 |
Add Lepron project part 4: pseudowords with entropy of 3.5 bits/letter from trigrams
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2 December 2022 |
Add A home-made catch-and-release mouse trap with no moving parts
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24 November 2022 |
Add Filling and emptying a home-made parabolic trough solar kettle
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17 November 2022 |
Add An oak eggar moth caterpillar photographed in England in May
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10 November 2022 |
Add Experiences using a fruit-picker tool with a grabber claw for apples
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3 November 2022 |
Add The wildflower alexanders (Smyrnium olusatrum) photographed in Cornwall in May
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28 October 2022 |
Add A home-made solar kettle, its performance and its problems
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13 October 2022 |
Add Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 9
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6 October 2022 |
Add Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 8
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29 September 2022 |
Add A garden spider (Araneus diadematus) photographed in England in September
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26 September 2022 |
Update Which web search engines have their own index? Evidence from website visits,
adding search engine Marginalia.
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22 September 2022 |
Add A reader's guide to Clarion style and values
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9 September 2022 |
Add Photographs of “Extinction rebellion” demonstrators and police blocking a central Cambridge street in 2019
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2 September 2022 |
Add Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 7
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26 August 2022 |
Add An idea for human-friendly hex strings in cryptographic key fingerprints
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19 August 2022 |
Add Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 6
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12 August 2022 |
Add Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 5
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5 August 2022 |
Add Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 4
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29 July 2022 |
Add “Save our tree-lined avenues” on a banner in residential Cambridge, 2017
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22 July 2022 |
Add A photograph of Darwin College's 1964 foundation plaque
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15 July 2022 |
Add A police helicopter photographed over Cambridge in 2017
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8 July 2022 |
Add Silver Y moths photographed in England in September
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1 July 2022 |
Add The idea of moist air as a heat transfer fluid in energy-efficient home heating
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24 June 2022 |
Add A tachinid fly photographed in England in August
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17 June 2022 |
Add A knot grass moth caterpillar photographed in England in June
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10 June 2022 |
Add Lackey moth cocoon and caterpillars photographed in England in May
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3 June 2022 |
Add A well-tried way to make coffee without equipment
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27 May 2022 |
Add Which web search engines have their own index? Evidence from website visits
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20 May 2022 |
Add An oak eggar moth caterpillar photographed in England in November
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13 May 2022 |
Add Death of MP Stephen Milligan on front page of The Guardian, 8 February 1994
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6 May 2022 |
Add More on death of MP Stephen Milligan in The Guardian of 11 February 1994
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29 April 2022 |
Add Computer work lying down comfortably with a home-made stand over the bed
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22 April 2022 |
Add Metro Bank in Cambridge open after dark, photographed February 2019
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15 April 2022 |
Add Reporter Simon O'Dwyer-Russell's obituary in Sunday Telegraph, 16 December 1990
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8 April 2022 |
Add A heron photographed in June in Cambridge
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1 April 2022 |
Add A common field grasshopper photographed in October in England
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25 March 2022 |
Add A fox moth caterpillar photographed in October in England
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18 March 2022 |
Add Structures of a nut mould photographed through a cheap microscope
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14 March 2022 |
Add Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 3
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25 February 2022 |
Add Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 2
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13 February 2022 |
Add Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 1
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4 February 2022 |
Add Caterpillar parasitoids in cocoons photographed in England
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30 January 2022 |
Add Photograph of metallic gold on a chrysalis in England
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23 January 2022 |
Add Reporters protecting sources: in 2021 Reuters removed a clause from its “Standards and Values” web page
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14 January 2022 |
Add Photograph of a bust of Osman Kazazi in Tirana, Albania 2009
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7 January 2022 |
Add Photograph of a man selling lighter refills on the street, Albania 2009
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19 September 2021 |
Add British SAS trained Khmer Rouge in land mines - an extract from a book of reporting
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8 September 2021 |
Add Lepron project part 3: A first attempt at pronounceable passwords using dice for quantified strength
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19 August 2021 |
Add Photograph of a cabbage white butterfly with her eggs laid on a kale leaf
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8 August 2021 |
Add Six-spot burnet moth photographs showing proboscis
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3 August 2021 |
Add Lepron project part 2: towards public key authentication without central authority using names made of pseudowords
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2 July 2021 |
Add Lepron, a project to develop pronounceable pseudowords for representing binary strings - Part 1: introduction and goals
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30 June 2021 |
Add A letter corroborating that Nazi-era writer H. Powys Greenwood was ‘John Custance’, author of a 1951 book on his own personal experiences of madness
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23 May 2021 |
Update An idea for public key authentication from a name without certificates or central authority
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14 May 2021 |
Add An idea for public key authentication from a name without certificates or central authority
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30 April 2021 |
Add A 1963 article from The Times: MR. GAITSKELL RETURNS TO HOSPITAL
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25 April 2021 |
Add T-33 USA military plane and misleading text exhibited in Albania, 2009
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16 April 2021 |
Add Towards a philosophy, theory and practice of reporting, part 1
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9 April 2021 |
Add Statue of Reuters founder in City of London - photographs
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2 April 2021 |
Add Возле эквадорского посольства в знак солидарности с Джулианом Ассанжем
- The Russian language version of a 2018 article Vigil for Julian Assange at Ecuadorian Embassy.
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30 March 2021 |
Add Saudi Arabia: BBC interviewed a convicted perjurer linked to the ruling family without alerting its audience and then insisted this was acceptable
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28 March 2021 |
Add Statue of chief of WW2 Bomber Command in central London - photos
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19 March 2021 |
Update title to Cats, corona virus and genetic susceptibility in a 2014 science talk
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4 March 2021 |
Update Privacy Policy
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26 February 2021 |
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Cambridge demolishing council homes
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16 February 2021 |
Add RSS Feed
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27 January 2021 |
Add Privacy Policy
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24 January 2021 |
Add Control of the CIA, Congressional Record - House, 9 March 1967
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14 January 2021 |
Add Ramparts article: A short account of international student politics & the cold war with particular reference to the NSA,CIA,Etc
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1 January 2021 |
Within the last few days Clarion has changed
from http
to https. Every individual page has a 301 redirect from the http location to the https location.
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28 December 2020 |
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A personal script for a guided body-scan “meditation” or attention exercise.
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26 December 2020 |
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Three policemen to stand trial on Wapping charges
Terry Kirby, The Independent, 20 October 1990, page 6.
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21 December 2020 |
Add external article:
Gulf threat ‘is earning billions for Britain’,
Leonard Doyle, The Independent, 22 October 1990, page 1.
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8 December 2020 |
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Cambridge student demonstration against arms trade investments, 2007
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2 December 2020 |
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Michael Mansfield QC talked in tribute to Michael Seifert.
Add background information about the name of Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers.
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30 November 2020 |
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Coconut oil fatty acid composition on a jar label
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5 November 2020 |
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“Shut Guantanamo now!” demonstration in London, 15 July 2006
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26 October 2020 |
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A visit to a “traveller’s” home at Smithy Fen in 2005
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23 September 2020 |
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NY World Trade Centre collapse survivor's 2006 public account
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16 August 2020 |
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Council spraying glyphosate-based weedkiller in Cambridge streets in 2019
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14 July 2020 |
Now for the first time Clarion has a comment system, running with software unique to Clarion.
Added a button to many existing articles for comments.
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12 June 2020 |
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Arthur Scargill, former miners' union president, speaking in 2006
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7 June 2020 |
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A simple way to represent cryptographic key fingerprints
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13 May 2020 |
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Darwinian theory: “huge disparity” between public presentation and scientific literature
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4 May 2020 |
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Tax-efficient charity: a chance to quadruple a donation
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25 April 2020 |
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Arms Watch and others to Clarion's list of reporting websites
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31 July 2019 |
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FOTO - Estradizione di Julian Assange:
L'avvocato Jennifer Robinson e Kristinn Hrafnsson di Wikileaks parlano alla stampa dopo la prima udienza
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27 June 2019 |
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Display of the moths found in a Cornish garden managed for wildlife
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24 June 2019 |
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Largest ship of its kind was visible waiting off Cornwall [Images]
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6 June 2019 |
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Cambridge trees with new leaves in the spring
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8 May 2019 |
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Many members of public excluded from Julian Assange extradition first hearing
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6 May 2019 |
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Julian Assange extradition first hearing: Jennifer Robinson and Kristinn Hrafnsson speaking to the media
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11 April 2019 |
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Photos of Cormorants in Cambridge
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6 April 2019 |
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Stealing public housing money: a reported historical method
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18 March 2019 |
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Manual encryption with a one-time pad revisited
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8 January 2019 |
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Vigil for Julian Assange at Ecuadorian Embassy
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17 November 2018 |
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Vigilia por Julian Assange en la embajada de Ecuador
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7 October 2018 |
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Vigil for Julian Assange at Ecuadorian Embassy
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23 September 2018 |
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Celebration of Haringey's decision to drop HDV
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15 September 2018 |
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Five things to buy at Arjuna Wholefoods, a Cambridge co-operative
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12 August 2018 |
Remove all "social share" buttons. Eighteen pages affected.
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8 August 2018 |
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How to remember a 128-bit key using constrained choice
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4 August 2018 |
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Cambridge residents resisting demolition of homes and loss of green space at Montreal Square
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7 July 2018 |
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How to remember a provably strong password: a new way using ‘constrained choice’
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14 April 2018 |
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“Don't bomb Syria” demonstration in Whitehall
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26 February 2018 |
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Photos of rough sleeping in Cambridge
with more photos
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25 February 2018 |
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Photos of rough sleeping in Cambridge
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14 January 2018 |
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John Pilger's reporting collected in British Library
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31 December 2017 |
New statement of aims for 2018 above
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19 December 2017 |
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Grenfell bereaved asking for signatures on inquiry petition to parliament
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4 December 2017 |
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Michael Mansfield QC talked in tribute to Michael Seifert
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27 November 2017 |
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ClientEarth, a novel environmental law charity, discussed by its founder
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12 November 2017 |
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‘Last man standing’, Cambridge News, 23 May 2014
to external articles list
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12 November 2017 |
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‘Green light to demolish and rebuild homes’, Cambridge News, 5 December 2013
to external articles list
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12 November 2017 |
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‘Council homes facing the bulldozer for second time’, Cambridge News, 18 January 2013
to external articles list
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12 November 2017 |
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‘Council homes set for bulldozer’, Cambridge News, 16 January 2013
to external articles list
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12 November 2017 |
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‘Move driven by finance alone’, Cambridge News, 5 December 2012
to external articles list
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9 November 2017 |
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‘Tenants hope review will be lifeline to staying put’, Cambridge News, 22 November 2012
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7 November 2017 |
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Letter, 19 November 2012 on Water Lane house demolitions, by Tim Bick, Cambridge city council leader
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6 November 2017 |
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Indigenous Australian speaks in front of Aboriginal spears in a Cambridge museum
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5 November 2017 |
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‘Homes to be bulldozed despite residents' plea’, Cambridge Eve News, 12 October 2012
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3 November 2017 |
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Talk by former international ecstasy trafficker
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27 October 2017 |
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‘Widow begs: Don't bulldoze my home’, Cambridge Eve News, 25 October 2012
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25 October 2017 |
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20 October 2017 |
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Rosi on filming the real-life confessions of a drug hitman in the Mexican police
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16 October 2017 |
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‘Effective altruism’ author speaks in Cambridge
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13 October 2017 |
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Cambridgeshire Search and Rescue volunteers in action
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6 October 2017 |
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Leader of the Cambridge Sustainable Food Hub project explains the plan
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1 October 2017 |
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Cambridge workers' co-operative Daily Bread celebrates 25 years
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29 September 2017 |
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'Catalans in Cambridge speak about the independence referendum in Catalonia'
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24 September 2017 |
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'How to use beads to generate random letters and numbers by hand',
the first article in a series on practical data privacy and security.
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5 September 2017 |
Added mobile friendliness to Gremple, a German verb conjugation tool.
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27 August 2017 |
Add 'Event to raise funds to teach English to refugees in Athens', 27 August 2017
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26 August 2017 |
Add 'GETTING JULIAN ASSANGE: THE UNTOLD STORY', John Pilger, 20 May 2017 to list of external articles.
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21 August 2017 |
Most pages updated to be mobile-friendly. Multiple other improvements too, including navigation and related pages |
June 2017 |
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10 April 2017 |
Film review: "I Am Not Your Negro"
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7 April 2017 |
UTF-8 now used on all pages, to show international characters correctly.
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31 March 2017 |
A chance meeting with author Emily Scialom
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27 March 2017 |
Skateboarding for refugees in Athens - organisers visit Cambridge
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25 March 2017 |
Military charity collecting in Cambridge streets
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2015 |
Bomb
Syria says associate of the president of "Medical Aid for Palestinians" (MAP)
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2015 |
London
underground abrupt 35% fare increase
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November 2014 |
Vaccination advertisements in a Cambridge medical practice
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October 2014 |
Hora Chilena - screening and discussion of Cambridge film about Chilean refugees from the 1973 military coup |
26 September 2014 |
Cambridge Consultants, Neul and "internet of things" - local talks
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8 August 2014 |
Photo of unusual scorched, blackened crops in a field near Cambridge |
3 August 2014 |
UCL Prof John Dickie in Cambridge, 2013, 'Ndrangheta secret bunkers and Mafia Republic
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31 July 2014 |
Korean Flight KAL 007, shot down in 1983 - notes on Seymour Hersh book |
13 June 2014 |
Cancer Virus book in Waterstones -notes |
28 May 2014 |
Ancient Chinese document on undermining society |
21 May 2014 |
Plagues, populations and survival - a talk by Professor Stephen J O'Brien, molecular biologist |
12 April 2014 |
EU will force new cars to have positioning and cell phones after Oct 2015 - notes from a trade journal
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13 March 2014 |
Silicon Plagues - Computer security expert Mikko Hypponen's talk on the history of worms and viruses, including mentions of APT, intelligence agencies and bitcoin |
5 November 2013 |
TV interview on Syd Barrett, LSD and brain damage - notes on a recent broadcast |
21 March 2013 |
Photograph of a bus using bio fuel in Cambridge last month |
19 March 2013 |
Food prices: price of spaghetti and its recent increase |
16 March 2013 |
Proportions of fuel types used in UK electricity generation - photo of leaflets from npower and E.ON |
9 February 2013 |
Feelings of Cambridge academics on science funding
- observations from attending talk and reception at Darwin |
28 January 2013 |
A busy local farm vegetable market stall in Cambridge, with photo
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14 January 2013 |
MI5 and homosexual abuse at Kincora boys' home - a Guardian report from 1990
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29 December 2007 |
Dodi Fayed impersonator - Sunday Times article from 1997
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18 November 2007 |
A Cambridge Journal started
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