Well might you ask.
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Despite their clever repackaging and repositioning, the Greens face a disappointing election night – and their biggest problem isn’t going away.
A member of the public brings flowers to lay on the north side of London Bridge.
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People stand together in solidarity, but it belies the more complex story of human response.
Then I saw her face, now I’m a re-leaver.
PA
Are you wrong because your opinion differs from the majority, or should you stand your ground?
Jonathan Pie/YouTube
The UK needs more US-style political news satire. Sadly broadcast rules are making that difficult.
What happened to police budgets on Theresa May’s beat at the Home Office?
Paul Rogers/The Times/PA Archive
Theresa May says they have. But let’s take a closer look.
Protecting the public after the London Bridge attack.
EPA/Will Oliver
It’s practically impossible to protect sites like London Bridge without affecting public life.
Israeli soldiers during the Six-Day War.
רפי רוגל via Wikimedia Commons
A 50-year-old conflict that redrew the Middle East in less than a week tells us a lot about how states can play the media.
Never the twain…
M-SUR
Is this why we are in an age of intergenerational conflict?
What is Westminster doing to MPs’ wellbeing?
Yui Mok/PA Wire
Workplaces stresses and the weight of great expectations take a toll on well-being.
An Oxfam campaign launch in 2014.
Oxfam International via flickr
Why NGOs and donors must have adult conversations about what development really means.
The scene at London Bridge.
PA
It’s difficult for security services to anticipate such a low-tech attack.
Lasting change means moving beyond the rhetoric that follows attacks.
Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire/PA Images
Tightening security, impact of foreign wars – Britons have heard it before. The UK now has to dig beyond rhetoric to ask why some care so little of their own lives to take those of others.
The police killed the three London Bridge attackers within minutes.
PA/Dominic Lipinski
The attack in London was horrific but armed officers were on the scene and ending it with astonishing speed.
Let’s find out.
EPA/Andy Rain
If the 2017 polls are to get the election right, they have to nail one variable in particular: turnout among the young.
PA/Gareth Fuller
Calling an election was a risk, as was opting out of the BBC live debate. And the PM may now be having some regrets.
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After the Conservatives’ U-turn on social care, how do the parties compare?
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Hey big spender – what will your project actually do for the public?
A memorial in Manchester.
EPA
Jeremy Corbyn was criticised for raising this issue on the campaign trail but it’s time we talked about it.
Quite a surprising result for this man.
Joe Giddens/PA
With just a week until the vote, the polling agency has thrown a cat among the pigeons. Here’s how to understand the poll everyone is talking about.
Fat fingers?
Twitter
The US president’s use of Twitter usually appears bonkers. But was there method to his madness?
With Labour closing in on the Conservatives in the polls, we discuss the likely outcome of the UK general election 2017.
British Muslims adopt a variety of clothing styles, from traditional to contemporary Western.
Mohammed Tawsif Salam
… and that won’t make anyone safer in the long run.
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Can Liverpool’s new metro mayor prolong his reign by heeding lessons from 18th-century American revolutionary politicians?
Macron in Mali.
EPA/Christophe Petit Tesson
The state of democracy isn’t looking good in southern Africa – but these countries’ Western ‘partners’ don’t really seem to care.
Young people don’t have a right to equal pay.
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Until you reach 25, employers can pay you less than your older colleagues.