A drugs raid in London.
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Police should take a wider view to join the dots that link the networks behind slavery and drugs.
You’d think neurotic people would value safety nets.
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Neurotics are more disgruntled about the welfare state, yet they crave its reassurance.
Overweening ambition: George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham.
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Impeachment was a common political tool in early modern England, but its use lapsed 20 years after it was adopted in the US constitution.
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Vladimir Putin has proposed changes to the Russian constitution, which could mark the start of a shift in his persona as a national hero.
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The Commonwealth’s ‘golden age’ wasn’t entirely dazzling.
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When people are invested in one another and share a sense of place, they can respond to terrible events in admirable, courageous ways.
Lord Hall leaves the BBC at a pivotal time for the national public broadcaster.
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As the BBC starts its search for the next director general, it faces multiple problems, but there is also opportunity.
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The fear of ‘racial tension’ has been at the heart of many botched police inquiries into child sexual abuse.
Counting underway in Herat, Afghanistan.
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Why Afghanistan is still waiting to hear who its next president will be – nearly four months after the election.
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Buying the biggest and best technology is always going to be high risk and expensive.
Vladimir Putin: let’s make these changes.
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The seven ways Vladimir Putin wants to change Russia’s constitution.
Whose voice is more valid on racism: Stormzy, left, or Gary Neville?
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Two men talking about racism in Britain: one is black, the other white. Guess who was targeted for abuse?
The links with Britain’s imperial past can make receiving an honour deeply problematic.
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The British Honours system and its link to empire is outdated and inappropriate, it must change.
Anger in Iraq has mounted against foreign interference.
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Iraqis have taken to the streets to protest against the foreign interference – by both Iran and the US – in their country.
Long-Bailey and Starmer: the two favourite candidates.
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She’s meant to be the clear favourite for Corbyn supporters, but Long-Bailey hasn’t won over everyone in Momentum.
Saddam Hussein: on trial in 2006 in Baghdad.
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A short history of modern Iran-Iraq relations.
Thornberry and Starmer: both hoping to succeed Corbyn.
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What do the MPs running to replace Jeremy Corbyn believe in?
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Ireland’s new abortion law is a progressive one. But the resulting abortion service erects serious barriers for some people seeking abortions in Ireland.
Prime minister Boris Johnson with deputy first minister Michelle O'Neil, first minister Arlene Foster and Northern Ireland secretary Julian Smith.
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A new deal has been signed that seeks to encourage Sinn Fein and the DUP to work together.
Tsai Ing-wen won a resounding victory in Taiwain’s January 11 election.
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Tsai Ing-wen’s victory in Taiwan is more than just a rebuke to Beijing.
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The hand that taps ‘remove from this group’ is the hand that rules the world.
Students across India have protested against the attack by intruders at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi in early January.
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A history of Jawaharlal Nehru University, and why its students are fighting to protect the radical roots of its founding ethos.
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It’s either in or out for a minor royal. A mix and match approach raises too many problems.
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Government policy must do more to reflect the fact that rape isn’t just something that happens to women and girls.
Johnson: a new voter base demands a new approach.
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There is speculation over what the PM actually needs to do to hold on to his new voters.