Lost in the fog? How the fraudsters got their morals.
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Corporate wrongdoing is underpinned by a morality that many of us have voted for.
Both Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten are complex, enigmatic figures.
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A party can have the most brilliantly informed and farsighted policies. But if the protagonists cannot communicate these effectively to the electorate, they will be overlooked.
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There’s an argument to be made for the old way of doing things.
Foot voting.
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May 2016 sees contests for the position of elected mayor in four major cities across England.
‘You poor deluded people’
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Dennis Potter’s Nigel Barton Plays, 50 years old this month, are the original satires on the vileness of modern politics.
Who’s behind him?
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The Labour leader has made a virtue of voting against his party line for many years. Now his party appears to be striking back.
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Politicians hate secrecy when in opposition but grow to love it when in power.
Nigeria’s newly appointed government ministers attend their swearing-in ceremony in Abuja.
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No-one imagined that it would take Muhammadu Buhari more than 100 days to form a cabinet. But, then again, Nigeria is no ordinary country and it has its own inherent logic.
Tony Blair is given the US Congressional Medal of Freedom by George W Bush.
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The former British PM did not go far enough with his apology.
The old politics is the new politics.
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Elected in the party’s biggest ever wipeout, Labour’s 1983 intake of MPs could be about to notch up its third party leader.
It’s all your fault!
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It’s become fashionable to blame those born in the post-war baby boom for all today’s economic woes. But this is unfair – and wrong.
We thought the phone hacking scandal would chasten News Corp. We were wrong.
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If the commercial media has its way the BBC will end up cash-strapped and shackled by regulation.
That sinking feeling: Sir John Chilcot.
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Whatever position you take on the Iraq Inquiry – whether you see it as an establishment stitch-up, or whether you think it might actually tell the truth about Britain’s decision to go to war in Iraq in…
Residents of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip watch a parade by the military wing of Hamas to mark the anniversary of the war with Israel.
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Although Hamas also wants a return to normalcy in the Gaza Strip, it is potentially a double-edged sword for the movement.
Will we ever know what he knows?
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The Iraq inquiry, launched in 2009, still hasn’t published its report.
Come at me bro.
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Former PM warns of annihilation without offering a way out.
Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adaweya Square before and after the August 14 massacre of more than 800 peaceful protesters in 2013.
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Two years ago, on August 14, more than 800 protesters against a coup were massacred in Cairo. A court recently upheld the death sentence for Egypt’s ousted elected leader.
The prospect of left-wing frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn becoming Labour Party leader is shaking up Britain’s political establishment.
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The emergence of ageing left-winger Jeremy Corbyn as the unlikely frontrunner in the Labour Party leadership contest signals that many British voters reject what politics has become.
On the threshold of a new era?
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If you ignore the spoiling campaign being run by the press, the left-winger’s campaign platform begins to appear eminently sensible.