A group of migrants crossing the Channel in a small boat headed in the direction of Dover, Kent.
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Perhaps the best way to understand the reasons why people embark on these journeys is to put yourself in their shoes.
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The levelling up white paper outlines plans for regional devolution in England, but they will be meaningless without reform at the top.
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A white paper that is central to the government’s mission – but lacks coherence.
The Clerk of the Chamber of the Crown Office in the House of Lords presents the Queen’s seal affixed to the royal charter document, conferring city status on Brighton and Hove in 2001.
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To fête the 70th year of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, several towns – and a few villages – are to be granted the royal right to call themselves cities.
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has become the face of mayors outside of London’s Sadiq Khan.
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More city region mayors are part of the government’s plan to level up, but the short timeline could hinder their success.
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The authors were in town to set up a journalism course. Instead they witnessed a coup d'état.
Azeem Rafiq bowls for Yorkshire in 2016.
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Corporate and public bodies often try to neutralise uncomfortable claims of institutional racism.
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Russia has been developing sophisticated hybrid warfare tactics for some years now.
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The turn towards neofascism is a natural result of so-called western liberal democracy.
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The prime minister seized on Sue Gray’s warnings about structural problems in government, avoiding the bigger ethical questions raised by her report.
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Sue Gray’s “update” reveals that 16 separate incidents have been investigated as part of inquiries into the behaviour of government staff during pandemic lockdowns.
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One year after the military coup, a possible return to executions threatens the lives of dozens of political prisoners.
Resistance to military rule has grown increasingly violent since the coup in February 2021.
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Millions are expected to stay home in a ‘silent strike’ againt the junta, while the country teeters of the edge of collapse.
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Understanding how we blame can help us work together.
Sanctions: effective weapon or token gesture?
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How sanctions packages have become ever-more sophisticated over many centuries.
Family members and friends of those killed on Bloody Sunday marching in 2010.
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Milestone anniversaries mark the point when events move from living memory to more symbolic.
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Knowing the number of people who have had their citizenship removed is crucial to holding a powerful government to account.
Slip of the tongue: SNP leader Ian Blackford.
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Everyone has words they struggle to pronounce – and that’s no bad thing.
Never forgotten: a memorial to the Great Famine of the 1930s in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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New research reveals huge differences in the way Russians and Ukrainians view their history.
Palestinian residents protest evictions in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
Haim Yacobi
How the Israeli authorities are using planning laws to expropriate Palestinian land in East Jerusalem.
A Roma boy and his horse in Velykyi Bereznyi, a settlement in the Carpathian mountains, in Western Ukraine.
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Romani children across Europe are overrepresented in institutional care. Research shows widely held prejudical views and structural inequality is to blame.
Uyghurs and other Muslims pray at a mosque in Kashgar in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region during a state-organised visit by foreign journalists in April 2021.
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Documentary photography during Bloody Sunday produced some of the most evocative images of the Troubles.
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The photos taken on Bloody Sunday have played different roles in commemorating the events of the day over the last 50 years.
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Boris Johnson continues to insist the public cares more that he ‘gets on with the job’ than what happened in Downing Street over lockdown. But he may be wrong.
All is calm: Christmas in St Petersburg.
Alexander Titov
Most Russians blame Nato and the US for the increase in tensions.