A handout photo of Shamima Begum, who left London in 2015 to join Islamic State.
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A schoolgirl who left Bethnal Green to join Islamic State in Syria is now in a refugee camp and wants to return to the UK.
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Cyber attacks need two components – the tools to exploit vulnerabilities and the people with the expertise to deploy them.
Marx’s tombstone was vandalised with a hammer in February 2019.
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Statues to divisive figures are increasingly becoming the target of protest and vandalism.
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Bollywood actress Tanushree Dutta has opened the floodgates.
A towering figure.
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A complicated man who some would cast as a simple answer to complex times.
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When it comes to riots, UK politicians need to acknowledge the real root causes, and address key issues such as failures in community policing.
Nicolás Mauro supporters beneath a Hugo Chávez mural.
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Assertive politics is not enough.
Speaking out.
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Young people don’t get to vote on the issues of the day, but that doesn’t mean they can’t build power and make their voices heard.
A screenshot from promotional material by Turning Point UK.
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Traditional ways of describing the ‘far right’ are becoming outdated.
David Davis and Mark Francois: both big fans of mentioning the war.
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Several pro-Brexit figures have made some spurious historical claims lately.
Is it ethical for a journalist to report on someone else’s conversation?
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ITV was justified in reporting Olly Robbins’ private conversation about Brexit as the public has a right to know the government’s plans.
My dear friend.
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The bonhomie between Narendra Modi and Binyamin Netanyahu is rooted in the admiration of generations of Hindu nationalists for Israel.
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The review contains some great ideas. It remains to be seen whether these will ever see the light of day.
Protestors during a demonstration over the recent fuel price increase in the suburb of Warren Park, Harare. January 15, 2019.
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Mugabe is gone, but chaos reigns.
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The Conservative Party might not be able to survive the fallout if May worked with the opposition against her own MPs.
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Why altruism is in shorter supply than the industry wants you to believe
Christian Bale as Dick Cheney in Vice.
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Christian Bale is phenomenal as Dick Cheney, but that only makes it harder to capture his essence on film.
Women played a prominent part in Iran’s 1979 revolution.
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Hostility to Iran’s revolution from both the West and in the region is as virulent now as it was in February 1979.
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Let’s worry about the future of Brexit, not its prehistory.
Tongue splitting: one of the procedures the defendant was convicted for.
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A body modification practitioner has been convicted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent – even though he had the consent of the ‘victims’.
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Mistaken links between the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights could be one factor that sees the UK losing out on these vital supranational laws.
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Majority thinks Brussels is playing hardball – but a generational divide is apparent, as so often in the Brexit debate.
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Brussels is certainly firm on its red lines, but it’s not as intransigent as many in the UK portray it to be.
The Irish border in 1974.
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The history of smuggling across the Irish border.
Emmanuel Macron has pulled his ambassador out of Rome in a rage.
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When two founding partners of the European Union are at loggerheads, something is very wrong.