Souls on ice Three Oxford academics have revealed that they have paid to become cryonically preserved at death in the hope of one day being revived. A selection of the 117 clients lying in ‘patient care drawers’ at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Arizona: — Roy Schiavello, 30, programmer — Michael Louis Friedman, 32, lawyer
Home Six men from the West Midlands — Omar Khan, Jewel Uddin, Mohammed Hasseen, Mohammed Saud, Zohaib Ahmed and Anzal Hussain — were jailed for 18 or 19 years on terrorism charges after planning to bomb an English Defence League rally in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, last year. After a fire caused minor damage at the Darul Uloom
This week’s exposé of the US National Security Agency has been heralded as the greatest intelligence leak since the Pentagon Papers. It is nothing of the sort. Far from revealing some institutional outrage, the whistleblower Edward Snowden merely appears to have found what any low-level intelligence source might find. Intelligence agencies try to find things
This is the full text of a speech delivered this week by Home Secretary Theresa May to the Reform think tank. We’re delivering more with less – so let’s have the courage of our convictions Thank you. A year or two ago I appeared on ‘Question Time’, and before the filming Shirley Williams introduced me
‘Loving the roof garden.’
‘There’s always one.’
‘As an MP, one needs a second job in order to keep in touch with ordinary people.’
‘Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello!’ (4 January 1963)
‘So, let’s take a look at how the badgers are getting on…’
‘I see you’ve sold one.’
‘Two bottles of meths, some paint stripper, a bottle of aftershave...’
‘He used to be a chess Grand Master. Now he’s just really really good at Angry Birds.’
‘That’s so last season.’
‘I’d like some summer reading for the beach.’
‘I suppose I just have to accept that you’re not Daddy’s little girl any more.’