Alexander Kerensky, prime minister of Russia’s Provisional Government in 1917.
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Stephen Kerensky on why he thinks his grandfather’s legacy has been so maligned.
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It’s been 100 years since revolution swept through Russia and we have dedicated The Anthill 18 to this seminal moment in world history.
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Victimisation, fear of reprisal and the need for more police support mean thousands of hate crimes against disabled people go unreported
Orakzai tribesmen on their way to fight in Kashmir, 1947.
Frank Leeson (with permission)
Claimed by both India and Pakistan ever since the British left, Kashmir is still caught in the crossfire.
Getting Lenin ready for his revolution’s birthday.
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Four empires fell, a world was shaken, a new order arose – and the long 20th century really began.
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Women’s voices have been seen as unwanted or untruthful, but the snowballing sexual assault revelations from the #MeToo campaign show that women must find their voices.
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The Spanish government is dealing with the Catalonian secession movement in entirely the wrong way. But what would getting it right look like?
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Food is a real flashpoint in the power dynamics between asylum seekers and the people looking after them.
Let’s get on with it.
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Is there light at the end of the Brexit talks tunnel?
Andrej Babiš, riding high.
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A lurch to the right in central Europe runs into a familiar obstacle: the tricky maths of coalition.
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Personal freedoms and self-expression have come under attack.
EPA/Wu Hong
Still smarting from centuries of ancient humiliation, China is ready to rise to global supremacy.
Martin Luther King in Newcastle, 1967.
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Black British history is too often overlooked, and its connections to the US even more so.
Murdered investigative journalist Daphne Carauna Galizia, outside the Libyan embassy in Valletta, Malta.
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Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has been killed in Malta – but we must accept that corruption is a problem for all of Europe.
Paying the price.
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Not-so-fun fact: more than half of 18- to 34-year-olds are in debt, owing over £8,000 each on average.
Being lied to?
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Finding out how ‘real’ the relationship is between online groomers and their child victims.
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After many failed attempts, Hamas and Fatah might just have struck a crucial accord. But can they follow through?
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It is up to the EU to decide when Brexit negotiations can move on to the next phase.
‘Dig For Victory’, first time around on an allotment in London’s Kensington Gardens.
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Britain has fed itself before, can it do so again? It’s not easy to tell.
Paddy Hill, one of the Birmingham Six who were wrongly convicted of the Birmingham pub bombings.
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The long-term effects are much worse for exonerees than for guilty prisoners.
Nottingham: no more human trafficking.
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Slavery is a local issue – and stopping it requires a local approach.
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It hinges upon whether she was a member of IS, and what that means.
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He’s been charged with fraud and is under investigation by the EU, so how did this former finance minister become the most likely candidate for prime minister?
Men with beards have been called terrorists.
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Sikhs, Hindus and men with beards have reported anti-Muslim hate crime.
The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization was founded in 1945.
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The US still owes UNESCO millions in arrears.