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A grimy, chaotic Babel – but would we have London any other way?
Exactly 350 years before yesterday’s Olympic opening ceremony, on July 27 1662, Samuel Pepys took his wife by water from the City to Westminster. From there, she went off to say goodbye to her father,...
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London Olympics 2012 opening ceremony: can the Aidan Burleys of this world...
To be honest, after the first couple of minutes I had my head in my hands. The sheep. The Maypole dancers. Kenneth Branagh. The eyes of the world were on Britain, and the world was thinking, “are these...
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Ben Whishaw on playing Q in Skyfall: ‘I don’t even have a computer’
Ben Whishaw admits that he was completely blindsided by this one. Hailed as one of the finest actors of his generation, the 32-year-old is about to play the MI6 boffin Q – all gadgets and geekiness —...
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Bond-style weapons carried by North Korean assassin unveiled
Footage of three weapons that were found on a North Korean assassin when he was arrested on the platform of a subway in Seoul in September 2011 were shown on CNN on Monday. The weapons, which would not...
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North Korea is running a drug ring, and Kim Jong-un is its Bond-style Mr Big
While the rest of the world watches James Bond movies for a laugh, North Korea’s communist leadership apparently take notes on how to be an evil mastermind. You might recall that in Live and Let Die,...
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