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In honour of Martin Luther King

Forty years ago today, Martin Luther King was assassinated. Here is the end of the last speech by this great man and Bobby Kennedy’s moving words on King’s death which are, as Joe Klein says, some of the finest ever spoken. 

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Farewell to Frederick Forsyth, the master of the thriller

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If Frederick Forsyth had not existed, you would have had to invent him. Yet no novelist could have come up with as convivial, swashbuckling and lively a character as the thriller writer, who has died at the age of 86. Many of his millions of admirers thought him almost immortal, and over the course of

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