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Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: The Spoils
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'I want my country back'
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Letters: Tory rhetoric is to blame for this disorder
Who is going to tell this now extremely nasty party that they are responsible for the riots on the streets of towns and cities up and down the country?
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Can we ‘turn off’ ageing?
Tech billionaires want to reverse ageing – and even cheat death. But scientist Venki Ramakrishnan says they are chasing a mirage
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Critical Mass.. on Imane Khelif
The furore surrounding the Algerian boxer, who may have Swyer syndrome, highlights complex issues around gender and sport
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Cartoon: The politics fun comic
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Politicians – speak up for immigration
It makes the country richer, culturally and economically. Now’s the time to say so
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A veil of hypocrisy
Blame this disorder on the double standard that sees Muslims branded extremists – and the far right as sensible voices to be heeded
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Fixing social media in antisocial times
Elon Musk allows Twitter users to fan the flames of disorder - and that may come back to burn him and them
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Losing the power of speech
Foreign language teaching in Britain is on the decline, which risks making the country more cut-off and inward-looking than ever before
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The mob vs Starmer
The far right are on the streets because they no longer have allies in power
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Taking over from the inside: China’s growing reach into local waters
The superpower of seafood dominates more than just the high seas
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Britain’s universities are in financial danger
Market competition and debt-based expansion have left institutions with an uncertain future
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Labour blow a big chance on youth mobility
The government says it’s levelling with us on the economy - so why not on the truth about a scheme demonised by Brexiteers?
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One-third of Ukrainians would give up land for peace – but it’s not as simple as that
If such a compromise between Kyiv and Moscow were achieved, it would most likely come about as a result of pressure from Washington and Beijing
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The US-Russia prisoner swap shows how journalists risk being used as geopolitical bargaining chips
The United States, then, has to live with the fact it helped free people serving time for crimes as severe as murder
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A dance of death
Retaliation and miscalculation put the Middle East on the precipice of escalation once again
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The truth about Andrew Neil
The tetchy media dinosaur who vilified Britain’s poorest people, published the work of racists and got it wrong about Brexit and AIDS
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The sun comes out for Rachel Reeves
Falling interest rates have nothing to do with Labour’s new chancellor - but she will definitely take them
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The Tory press’s winter fuel handout hypocrisy
A payment to all OAPs was unjustified and unsustainable
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A new low for Farage
His ill-informed, self-aggrandising, flame-fanning Southport video is beneath contempt
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The grief and the grifters
Extremists who used the Southport tragedy to play on people’s prejudices should feel the consequences
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Multicultural Man: On street food
Is there no land so remote nowadays that its cuisine can’t receive the descriptor ‘street’ and be flogged from a stall at lunchtime to British workers?
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A plague on plagiarism!
Why do we make so much fuss about ‘copying’ in the arts when almost everything we create is based on something else?
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JD Vance's questionable rise to political fame
Vance is an odd choice. Insights from his memoir only make the decision stranger
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A cull of hereditaries and elders in the Lords is not the answer. So what is?
A term limit, rather than an age limit, is key to reforming the upper house
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The majesty of the crêpe
It is the utilitarian nature of crêpes, their accessibility and the fact they enjoy French ceremony that I adore
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Fear of a female president runs long and deep in cinema
Women presidents in film get into all kinds of trouble, mainly because they’re not at home taking care of their kids and cooking for their husbands
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Kamala has got Trump rattled. He is flailing, and he hates it
Kamala Harris has made a flying start to her presidential campaign, and so far Trump has no answer
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How I learned to love the Olympics
The opening ceremony felt like France reintroducing itself to the world, warts and all
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Do chatbots deserve moral rights?
The time may come where they’re viewed as fellow workers, treated with respect and consideration