2015年1月30日 星期五

2015-01-31 U.K. Spotlight


Financial Times
   
A tipping point for Japan's foreign policy   
Financial Times
n Japan “I am Kenji” has replaced “I am Charlie” as the rallying cry of choice. The Kenji in question is Kenji Goto, a respected freelance journalist captured by militants from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) in Syria. On Saturday, a video was released ...


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Tax return deadline: remember to include pension contributions   
Hargreaves Lansdown
Many investors will be completing their tax return online over the next few days. More than half a million will leave it to the last day, 31 January, according to HM Revenue & Customs. Anyone yet to complete theirs should remember to include pension ...


   


International Business Times UK
   
Sierra Leone lifts Ebola quarantine measures amid progress   
International Business Times UK
Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma on Thursday (January 22) removed Ebola district quarantine measures intended to curb the spread of the disease, declaring "victory is in sight" after a sharp drop in transmission. Since the worst outbreak in history ...


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Financial Times
   
A vow of silence amid Twitter's onslaught of outrage   
Financial Times
This week at the centre of the tempest was the New York magazine journalist Jonathan Chait, cued with the provocative teaser: “Can a white, liberal man critique a culture of political correctness?” ...


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AOL Money UK
   
Is this the UK's narrowest one-storey house?   
AOL Money UK
A two-bedroom property that's just 8-and-a-half feet wide has gone on sale. To qualify as having two bedrooms, a single bed had to be squeezed onto a platform above the fridge, and a second is essentially just where a bed has been installed at one end of ...


   


International Business Times UK
   
Jose Mourinho: Chelsea will treat Bradford with respect   
International Business Times UK
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has promised to show the utmost respect to League One side Bradford City when the two side's meet in the FA Cup fourth round on Saturday (January 22), despite the 48 places that separate the two sides in the English ...


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Financial Times
   
An elite of fatalists has no answer to an insurgency of populists   
Financial Times
e French can do a pretty good line in talking ourselves down. Too often we indulge in defeatism and self-denigration. Our elites — those with the influence and the technical expertise to move the country forward, and the people upward — instead broadcast ...


   


Mirror.co.uk
   
Anne Kirkbride's Coronation Street co-star Johnny Briggs pays poignant tribute ...   
Mirror.co.uk
Johnny Briggs gazes into the distance as he tries to summon up the right words to pay tribute to tragic Coronation Street star Anne Kirkbride. Finally, his voice cracking with emotion, the 79-year-old actor breaks the silence, whispering: “Annie loved everyone.

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Noooo Anthony Mackie Why Did You Have To Say A Woman's "Role" Is To ...   
The Mary Sue
Just a few days ago I was praising Anthony Mackie's awesomeness for being such a big Marvel fanboy and an all-around awesome dude. Today, I am sorely disappointed to report Mackie went on Wendy and told her he thinks men and women have specific ...


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BBC News
   
In Pictures   
BBC News
Our selection of some of the best news photographs taken around the world this week. US President Barack Obama blows a kiss to his wife US President Barack Obama declared an end to the financial crisis and pledged economic policies to benefit all ...


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