Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
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The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
Anne Robinson has told The Guardian that she hopes the former Taoiseach “went to the grave with bruises on his hands”.
We’ve read the reviews of The Casual Vacancy so you don’t have to.
Roy Keane, Thierry Henry and Eurovision heros of the past all make appearances in the James Richardson-narrated episode from the Guardian.
Check out all 20 of the continent’s best finishes, along with the Saints winger’s lob against Shamrock Rovers.
The incoming England manager admits it will be difficult to remain focused on West Brom-related affairs as the season approaches its climax.
Sky News authorised a journalist to access emails of individuals suspected of criminal activity.
The Home Alone mansion sells for well under the asking price.
It was suggested last week that wolf-whistling could be banned in the UK – but it appears that the controversy emerged from a Council of Europe convention on violence against women. Ireland is currently studying its recommendations.
John Michael McDonagh’s film has been recognised by the British newspaper’s annual film awards.
Tabloid misbehaviour is an easy target for complaints – but popular news is essential to our society, writes John O’Sullivan.
Aging tennis players, warm-weather training for Ireland’s Olympic hopefuls and John Elway in his knick-knacks. Do yourself a favour and check this lot out.
The brothers Grimes are “cheering their nation” the paper notes in its editorial today.
The judge heading the inquiry into media ethics in the UK has called for clarification of the matter as the long running phone hacking saga took another twist today.
A major study by the Guardian newspaper and the London School of Economics has shed light on the causes of the unprecedented riots in English cities in August.
A video has emerged which claims to show Gaddafi’s corpse (not main picture here) as National Transitional Council in Libya confirms the ousted leader was captured and died of his wounds.
Fooled by an early declaration of guilt on a slander charge, the Daily Mail and Sun post stories declaring Knox to have lost her appeal.
Scotland Yard is no longer looking for court orders to force journalists to reveal their sources behind certain phone hacking stories.
Amelia Hill has broken a number of stories, naming people arrested as part of the phone hacking investigation by police in London.
Officials around the world criticise the move, which could potentially expose the identities of diplomatic spies and terror suspects.
WikiLeaks said the disclosure had jeopardised the “careful work” it was doing to redact and publish the cables. The paper denied any wrongdoing.
The soldier suspected of leaking documents to WikiLeaks was “a mess” who wet himself, a former training officer has said.
Turkish diplomats accompany released journalists out of Libya.
The Guardian says it last received word of its missing correspondent on Sunday, and is urgently seeking information about his location.
Steven Spielberg’s Dreamworks buys the screen rights to two books about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks, though, seems less than pleased with the idea…
In an escalating war of words with the Guardian newspaper, Julian Assange has allegedly said that “Jewish” journalists had been deliberately painting a negative picture of him.
The Guardian’s Moscow correspondent Luke Harding is the first British journalist blocked from Russia since Cold War.
A welcome Christmas present for the British prime minister: a plea from the WikiLeaks founder to stop him being charged.
The Guardian publishes details of the statements made by two women who claim sexual impropriety on Assange’s behalf.
The internet is not killing me or my attention span. It’s the message that matters, not the medium
The BBC says we’re “hideously and perilously” close to Armageddon.
The left-leaning British paper writes an editorial praising the passion of gaelic games and supporting amateur status.