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Previous blog posts

• Death in a time of life

  May 16, 2012 3:40 pm 10 Comments

  Once in a while in death, you learn something about life. So it was this morning at the gracious church of St Martin's in The Field's on a rare sunny corner of London's Trafalgar Square, writes Jon Snow.

• Rebekah Brooks and the lessons of Watergate

  May 15, 2012 12:23 pm 36 Comments

  Not the hacking of Millie Dowler's phone. Not even the allegation that someone may even have deleted several of her messages. No, today's charges by the CPS against Rebekah and Charlie Brooks, the current head of security at News International, and others, are allegations of cover-up.

• JP Morgan: a tempest no longer in a teacup?

  May 14, 2012 10:51 am 13 Comments

  "... there has been a 'cultural breakdown' at the bank, not by a lone 'rogue trader' but by the entire team in the trusted department in which the losses occurred."

• Claire Lomas – one remarkable woman

  May 9, 2012 9:47 am 6 Comments

  I asked her how far she could walk normally. ‘Not at all’, she replied casually – ‘I can’t walk at all, I cannot even stand up unaided.'

• A marathon achievement by Claire Lomas

  May 8, 2012 7:42 pm 1 Comment

  Five years ago Claire Lomas was a top-rated event jumper. But one day her horse bolted and she smashed into a tree. She was left paralysed from the chest down. She would never walk again. Except she has.

• History as France, Greece and Serbia go to polls

  May 6, 2012 12:38 pm 14 Comments

  A tremendous air of excitement here in Paris. Even before getting here, it was clear that French society is profoundly different from our own. But it’s not just France that’s voting today, but Greece and Serbia.

• Murdoch committee ‘unfit’ for purpose?

  May 2, 2012 12:13 pm 10 Comments

  Jon Snow asks if the Commons Select Committee which investigated Rupert Murdoch is "unfit" for purpose?

• The shock of revelation

  April 25, 2012 9:14 am 15 Comments

  Jon Snow blogs on our ever changing news consumption.

• Time for a joined-up strategy on cycling

  April 24, 2012 5:10 pm 11 Comments

  Jon Snow gives evidence to a select committee on cycling safety and is mildly encouraged by what he observes.