Новости за 18.07.2016

So much for the gauzy illusions of November 2008

The natural world flows through Haydn's oratorio The Creation, from new-made landscapes to darting birds and a roaring lion. In Garsington Opera's new staging, a collaboration with Rambert dance company, dancers flit through the music, evoking animals or rippling through abstract patterns.

A senior Lib Dem member of the coalition said: 'Labour aren't going to get anywhere until they come to realise that they are not going to win a general election. They think they can get rid of Corbyn and it'll be business as usual. It won't'

Martin Porter, QC, the so-called 'cycling silk', has called for motorists accused of driving offences, who are tried 'either way', which gives them the option of being tried at a magistrates' court or by a jury, to lose the right to the latter. Why? Because juries are too willing to acquit

It is the Labour Party bureaucracy, along with a truculent parliamentary Labour Party, that persists in undermining democratic processes and actively disenfranchising the membership

It is more than likely that the tactics employed by the already polarising Mr Trump will serve only to deepen America's social partitions

For the media in this country to give Erdoğan a free pass would be a gross failing, not least in the eyes of independent Turkish journalists whose work has been hampered by the serious erosion of press freedom in their homeland

The National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review said that there is 'no direct threat to the UK or its vital interests from states developing weapons of mass destruction'

There will no doubt be a Pokémon Go scare story soon. Yet it's important to remember that for a short time in July 2016, there was tangible proof that our default setting is open, curious, childlike and really quite silly

Russia's problems go deeper than doping - but Richard McClaren's new report feels like something on an entirely different scale

Theresa May could take a leading role in bringing about concerted action against the greatest threat to humanity

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Nick Timothy – former Director of the Network of Free Schools, who has long campaigned to overturn the rule which allows a maximum of 50 per cent of pupils to be selected on the grounds of their faith – is now the chief of staff for Theresa May

Make the most of your natural curls with a nourishing, conditioning treatment

The World Anti-Doping Agency will release details about the 2014 Winter Olympics on Monday