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John McDonnell’s claim that the BBC was uncritically repeating ‘Tory lies’ this week once more raises the question of bias in the media’s political reporting. But is he right?
A strong and stable leader?
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Expert analysis of that infamous Brexit spat, tactical voting and Diane Abbott's media meltdown.
Moon Jae-in (L) seems to be outpacing his rivals.
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Seoul’s Blue House looks set to host its first liberal president in a decade.
Then one simply drops it.
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It turned out to be a fairly minor announcement, but the palace knows how to work the news cycle.
Do you even lift, Jeremy?
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Why is the PM constantly repeating this phrase and what impact is it really having on her campaign?
On your marks.
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Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron went head-to-head in the final debate before the second round of voting on May 7.
Supporters of Marine Le Pen campaigning in southern France ahead of the second round of the presidential election.
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France seems more divided than ever going into the run-off vote between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen on May 7.
Gone but not forgotten: Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s funeral, 2008.
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As Solzhenitsyn saw it, simple truths are always a threat to totalitarianism.
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A weekly hit of what you need to know to get to grips with the last-minute UK election.
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The West’s strategy in Afghanistan has demonstrably failed. Is the stage now set for a much more intense war?
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There’s a good reason why the PM is acting like a party with only nine MPs is a major threat.
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By promising a top job to Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, the Front National leader is hoping to catch a few more votes. But is it too little too late?
A poll says it could happen, and history does too.
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Is Wales about to be shaken by a Conservative earthquake?
Not always a given.
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An argument over what will happen to an important EU charter post-Brexit has repercussions for social protections, including the right to health.
Migrants abandoned on the Sudan-Libya border by smugglers in 2014.
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A deal to secure the southern Libyan border aims to stop migrants from attempting to cross the Mediterranean.
Are immigrants anti-immigration?
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It depends on how long they have been in the UK.
A European map of implicit racial bias.
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Implicit racial bias, measured across Europe.
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A new study has interviewed South Asian women who have suffered from economic abuse.
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Can new Metro Mayors save our struggling town centres?
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Three democracies once considered beacons of hope are in varying states of disarray.
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The Irish republicans stand for parliament but don’t attend when they win. It’s high time that changed.
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Women are constantly implicitly blamed, both in the Bible and in contemporary culture, for their rape.
Too much for some students to bear?
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No-platforming is turning supposedly ‘critically minded’ events into adolescent cheerleading sessions.
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The Conservative PM is often seen as a failure, but the odds were stacked against him from the start.
On the trail in 1997.
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Things could only get better. Or could they?