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Peaches Geldof apologises for Ian Watkins sex abuse tweet | Child protection

Peaches Geldof has apologised for revealing the names of two women whose babies were abused by the singer Ian Watkins, after it emerged she could face criminal charges for the disclosures. Geldof told her 166,000 Twitter followers she had assumed the names of the women "had been released for public knowledge".

Revealed: Google's 'two-tier' workforce training document | Google

Exclusive: internal document shows how Google employees are trained to treat temps, vendors and contractors Google staff are instructed not to reward certain workers with perks like T-shirts, invite them to all-hands meetings, or allow them to engage in professional development training, an internal training document seen by the Guardian reveals.

The essential Updike

Write three pages a day for more than 50 years and you end up with about 25m words - give or take a few million. John Updike once told the Paris Review: "I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles if I had to" and he meant it. From the time his

The House on Vesper Sands by Paraic ODonnell review a genre-busting gothic

Who is stealing souls in Whitechapel? ODonnell brings Victorian London gloriously to life in an unorthodox confection of thrills and chills Paraic ODonnell is a headache for those who like to organise their bookshelves by genre. His first novel, The Maker of Swans, was a gothic mashup of murder, magic, fairytale and literary fantasy. Linguistically

Touched by the hand of God: my memories of New Order | Music

Power, corruption and live: New Order onstage sometime in the mid-80s. Everyone's talking about the New Order "split". Although Peter Hook's comments have already been rebuffed by the band's spokesperson, who insists that the band will be travelling en masse to Cannes next week to promote the forthcoming Joy Division film, Control, there's at least