50 years of gay rights by the people who lived it (BBC News online)
"They came in and they said: 'Get up, get downstairs, you're under arrest'.†A colleague had told the Royal Navy police that Emma was a lesbian.
Who are the Barclay brothers? (BBC News online)
Surprisingly little has been written about Sir Frederick and Sir David Barclay. The Telegraph owners are under the spotlight for how their newspaper treats stories that impinge on commercial interests.
How did the pro-paedophile group PIE exist openly for 10 years? (BBC News online)
The Paedophile Information Exchange was affiliated to the National Council for Civil Liberties - now Liberty - in the late 1970s and early 1980s. How did pro-paedophile campaigners operate so openly?
France’s village problem (Financial Times)
In crowded Britain, villages like this would be overrun by city dwellers seeking pretty weekend cottages. But France is littered with beautiful villages – what to do with them all?
Down on the intensive chicken farm (BBC News online)
Lower Farm, just outside Chesterfield, is not what most of us would think of as a farm. It is run by a poultry company called Applied Group. Everything happens in four large sheds. Nearly all chicken meat eaten in the UK comes from a place like this.
How to be a doctor in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe (The Lancet)
The professor of surgery hears a knock on his office door. A surgeon enters gingerly to apologise for missing an important student seminar they were running. “I was pushing the truck."
How feasible is voting online at a general election? (BBC news online)
Imagine democracy had just been invented. Would the UK government decide to set up 50,000 polling stations on Thursday 7 May?
Swimming in Martin Strel’s backyard (FT)
Through my aircraft window, the river resembled a snaking green lava flow. A couple of days later I’m swimming in it, a wetsuit protecting me from the 13C chill.
The Private Eye cover at 50 (BBC news online)
Its formula of headline, photograph and provocative speech bubble has rarely changed over the years. Margaret Thatcher has made 95 appearances, the Queen 62, while Jeffrey Archer and Saddam Hussein are both into double figures.
Rokeby Venus: The painting that shocked a suffragette (BBC news online)
It's the last word in sensual languor. And one of the most famous bottoms of all time.
Kursk 70 years on: Will there ever be another massive tank battle? (BBC news online)
Before dawn on 5 July 1943 explosions lit up the Russian sky and the earth shook to a huge bombardment. As the sun rose, waves of German panzers began rolling across fields of sunflowers and wheat.
Roald Dahl and the darkness within (BBC News online)
There's a perception that children's literature involves endless picnics where the strawberry jam and lashings of ginger beer never run out.