A team of my own (Daily Telegraph)
I’m standing in a sunny playing field in a corner of post industrial Kent, trying to take in the fact that what I’m watching is a football revolution.
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From the frontlines of procrastination (Daily Telegraph)
In 1975, an idealistic 17-year-old leaves the small Norwegian town of Stavanger to help the poor and wretched in Colombia.
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The beano and the ballot box (Sunday Times)
Democracy’s jet-lagged volunteers stumble out of Simon Bolivar international airport into the full glare of the Venezuelan sun.
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Plight of the predator (Daily Telegraph)
Twenty feet down through the hazy blue of the Caribbean, several lean, grey Zeppelins cruise silently by.
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“They put a gun to the back of my head. I heard them cock it. It jammed” (Guardian)
Britain’s teenage gangsters tell their stories
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Cold water, hot blood (New Statesman)
The intoxicating smell of Ambre Solaire is a distant memory and overhead the skies are darkening.
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Channel number one (Daily Telegraph)
At Samphire Beach, a Japanese woman stands in front of Dover’s white cliffs.
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Here for the beer (New Statesman)
On 22 September, the world’s most famous beer festival begins in Munich.
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