A novel recreates Lucie Duff Gordon’s escape to Egypt and how her Englishness slowly melted away.

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The Orientalists

PFA chief Gordon Taylor believes football is losing its sense of humour after Liverpool’s Ryan Babel is charged by the FA for criticising referee Howard Webb on Twitter.

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PFA defends Babel’s Twitter posts

Neil Lennon’s inspired decision to play match-winner Georgios Samaras against Rangers was confirmed after a chat with former Celtic boss Gordon Strachan.

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Strachan backed Samaras to star

Government cuts will leave Britain with worse youth unemployment problems than the 1980s, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown warns.

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Brown airs youth joblessness fear

The rush to slash spending may be seen in future as one of the “great misjudgements of history”, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown warns.

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Brown ‘cuts misjudgement’ warning

Leaked US cables show Gordon Brown was rebuffed by the US after suggesting Gary McKinnon could plead guilty in return for serving his sentence in the UK.

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US ‘rebuffed’ Brown over McKinnon

Former PM Gordon Brown tells MPs he does not believe the government will meet its commitment to give 0.7% of income as international aid by 2013.

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Brown doubts over 0.7% aid target

Ex-PM Gordon Brown will use his first Commons speech as a backbencher to try to save shipyard jobs near his constituency.

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Gordon Brown to address Commons

Questions remain over government assurances that NI will receive £18bn pledged in 2006 by Gordon Brown, says Finance Minister Sammy Wilson.

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Wilson wants £18bn pledge clarity

A Labour general election candidate in Norfolk who described Gordon Brown as the “worst PM ever” apologises to his party.

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‘Worst PM’ jibe candidate sorry

Former prime minister Gordon Brown warns the UK government against cancelling two Royal Navy aircraft carriers.

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Brown warning over carrier cuts

The Italian coastguard calls off the search for the two missing American balloonists in the Gordon Bennett race.

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Search for balloonists called off

The Gordon Bennett race director says new radar information shows “something is badly wrong” for two missing balloonists.

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Balloonists ‘likely to be dead’

Twenty teams of gas balloonists, including Wiltshire adventurer David Hempleman-Adams, are crossing France in the Gordon Bennett race.

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Balloon teams race across France

Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown expresses “anger” at the failure of rich nations to honour their pledges to combat global poverty.

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Brown angry at slow poverty work