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Afghanistan
Taliban carry out hundreds of floggings as grip tightens on Afghanistan
...The use of corporal punishment under sharia was a “totemic” issue for the Taliban, said David Osborn, director of Afghan Witness, which is run by the Centre for Information Resilience, a UK-based non-profit...
November 30, 2023
FT Magazine
Why encountering a beached whale profoundly changes so many people
...Last year, Tevita Lavaki, a former lance corporal, had his house raided by Thames Valley Police’s rural taskforce, which found £18,000-worth of sperm whale teeth....
March 2, 2024
FT Live
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Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Transcript
Transcript: Culture chat — ‘Napoleon’ with historian Simon Schama
...But they didn’t when they called him the little corporal, it didn’t mean that he was stunted in growth at all. They just meant he was a kind of good bloke, which he often wasn’t....
December 8, 2023
Inside Politics
Personal values of leaders matter especially for an SNP in flux
...In many ways Forbes’ base is closer to the original SNP, which Nairn once described, tongue only half in cheek, as “a junta of corporal punishers and Kirk-going cheese-parers”....
February 22, 2023
Queen Elizabeth II
The pilgrims who queued for hours for Queen and country
...“She said, ‘Aren’t you that corporal?’ Her memory was fantastic. She didn’t talk down to you.” Nelson, 71, was in a lucky minority....
September 18, 2022
Special ReportInvesting in Education
Liberia’s schools outsourcing experiment divides opinion
...The programme also reduced the amount of corporal punishment used. However, dropout rates increased....
October 14, 2021
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewAlbums
Goitse A Thaisce — a historical journey through Irish traditional music
...Paul Brady sings his 1970s version of “Arthur McBride”, a song that originated in the 1840s, in which the narrator and his cousin get into an altercation with an (English) recruiting sergeant and corporal...
August 13, 2021
House & Home
London’s Camden Passage: 60 years of antiques trading
...The big years for antiques “were the 70s, 80s and to some extent the 90s”, says David Griffith....
December 18, 2020
ReviewFilm
On digital: 1917 / Jojo Rabbit
...Sam Mendes’ stirring film follows two British lance corporals (George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman) on a seeming one-way collision course with death to deliver a life-saving message across the front line...
May 1, 2020
ReviewBiography and memoir
The Mystery of Charles Dickens, by AN Wilson
...Dickens the champion of the downtrodden appears alongside Dickens the supporter of corporal punishment....
July 3, 2020
Brexit
Barnier says May never threatened no-deal during Brexit talks
...“It’s like Lance Corporal Jones, you know: ‘Don’t panic, don’t panic.’ Running around like idiots.”...
July 18, 2019
FT Magazine
Justice for all? Inside the legal aid crisis
...This January, David Gauke, the UK’s sixth justice secretary in eight years, declared the country’s legal system to be respected around the world....
September 27, 2018
Theatre
Hard-hitting: Mark Ravenhill on new play The Cane and the challenges of staying edgy
...The theatre’s reputation is indeed formidable, an incubator for new writing as far back as John Osborne’s Look Back In Anger, fostering talents such as David Hare, Jez Butterworth and Sarah Kane....
December 13, 2018
News in-depthCyber warfare
UK army unease mounts after decade of ‘underfunding’
...Corporal Sam Bailey joined the British army’s prestigious Parachute Regiment after leaving school at 17 and within a few months was serving in Afghanistan, fighting the Taliban....
May 14, 2018
World
Costume capers, fishy politics and a ‘hongi’ with Obama
...The former US president is due to give a series of talks during what is his first visit to the country Fatal crash Flight Lieutenant David Stark parachutes to safety amid a fireball after his Red Arrows...
March 23, 2018
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
US politics & policy
Three police officers killed in Baton Rouge
...Corporal L’Jean McNeely, a Baton Rouge police spokesman, said police used a robot to check the body for explosives....
July 18, 2016
LombardBrexit
Lombard live: Day of beer, bungee markets and burning platforms
...KB 10.45am: Solvency II’s acid test Call in Corporal Jones of TV sitcom Dad’s Army, or perhaps Arthur Dent of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy....
June 24, 2016
Life & Arts
The spy who became le Carré
...He has since complained about “the indelible scars that a neo-fascist regime of corporal punishment and single-sex confinement inflicts upon its wards”....
October 30, 2015
John Cornwell
Pope Francis’s mercy mission
...While Francis concentrates on the “spiritual works of mercy”, he does not neglect the “corporal works”....
January 13, 2016
David Pilling
The legacy of its founder looms over Singapore
...david.pilling@ft.com...
February 25, 2015
FT Magazine
Interview: Tom Courtenay
...“My entire life was waiting around for David to decide on the right type of sky.”...
August 14, 2015
Life & Arts
British patriotism: whose Waterloo?
...The radicals’ disappointment is an important theme of David Crane’s elegantly written Went the Day Well?...
May 29, 2015
Robert Shrimsley
Paying the price to keep Scotland’s love
...In the event of a No vote we should promise that the BBC will commission a remake of Dad’s Army with Private Frazer in charge of the platoon and Captain Mainwaring busted down to corporal....
September 10, 2014
Life & Arts
Lest we forget: testimonies from soldiers of the first world war
...David Stevenson is professor of international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His most recent book is ‘With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918’ (Penguin)...
July 25, 2014
ReviewLife & Arts
‘National Service: Conscription in Britain, 1945-1963’, by Richard Vinen
...If stock characters are often brutally loud-mouthed sergeants and corporals, the great stock theme in films, novels and memoirs alike is, of course, class....
August 15, 2014

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