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  • Humanity needs to take 'giant leap'
    Humanity needs a project with the vision and budget of the Apollo space programme if it is going to make the necessary giant leap towards sustainability.

  • Hysterical, deluded and thoroughly English
    Why do English football fans never learn to manage expectations?

  • Today: Saturday 26th June
    Germany's chancellor has insisted that Europe's leaders are making good progress in talks with the US about how to boost economic growth. And a temporary limit on the number of migrant workers from outside the EU allowed into the UK is to be introduced ahead of a planned permanent cap.

  • The Unswinging Sixties
    A Radio 2 chart reveals that the biggest sellers of the 1960s include Ken Dodd, Rolf Harris and Engelbert Humperdinck.

  • Little ship to miss Dunkirk party
    Lack of funding prevents Gloucester-based Queen Boadicea II from sailing to a little ships gala in Dunkirk.

  • WWII veteran recalls life as a POW
    A WWII veteran recalls for the first time how he was captured as a prisoner of war as his fellow comrades were rescued at Dunkirk.

  • New politics? Not if you look at the history books
    Today it's a novelty to have a coalition. But take the long view and it's simply Britain's latest marriage of political convenience, says David Cannadine.

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