Celebrate good times, come on.
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For all the chatter about the Kremlin’s supposed preference for Trump over Clinton, its strategy is far from clear.
Caledonia in question.
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As a second independence referendum beckons, a counterweight to the unionist-leaning press is hugely important to the Yes side.
What goes through the mind of abusers?
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It’s time to stop blaming the system and focus on why and how children are sexually abused.
Tom Gowanlock
Fleet Street is up in arms against a law they say will kill investigative journalism. That simply isn’t true.
Still at it after all these years: the FSB’s Moscow headquarters.
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Russia has decades of experience setting “honeytraps” for spies, diplomats, and whoever else it wants to embarrass or blackmail.
Is the new PM unravelling?
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As pressure mounts, the prime minister needs to prove that her thinking is not ‘muddled’ on some key issues.
The care system: too much of a revolving door.
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Once a child has left care, their characteristics, the stability of their placement and how they left it influence their chances of re-entering the system.
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Now, more than ever, journalists need to hold Donald Trump to account. They will have their work cut out for them.
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As his nominee for secretary of state awaits confirmation, Donald Trump is under pressure to explain what his views on Russia actually are.
The idea of a ‘native speaker’ creates bias.
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The belief in the linguistic superiority of the ‘native speaker’ is often based on assumptions of ethnicity.
Clare Hollingworth’s press card.
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Clare Hollingworth was one of the most accomplished foreign correspondents of the 20th century. Here’s another of her big scoops.
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The island’s leaders are meeting in Geneva to discuss the prospect of reunification. Here’s what is on the negotiating table.
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More than five years into a catastrophic, multi-sided war of attrition, a new order for Syria is coming into view.
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Buzzfeed is being damned for publishing unverified and salacious information about the president-elect, raising questions about media ethics in the digital world.
Corbyn’s first big speech of the year was full of contradictions.
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It’s not going to be easy to square this circle, but the Labour leader isn’t presenting a meaningful post-Brexit vision.
Ready for change?
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Downsizing a whole chamber of parliament is a tricky move.
The Norwegian government wants the right to keep Anders Behring Breivik i solitary confinement.
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The European Court of Human Rights will consider whether Breivik’s human rights have been violated by his solitary detention.
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New ONS data indicate that the UK’s poorest households are doing better and the richest are worse off. But this isn’t the full picture.
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MPs have proposed Britain follows Canada’s model allowing regions to decide how many immigrants they let in.
New hat, new plan.
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The plan is to start again in 2017, but the Labour leader’s key messages are still too vague.
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The market for sythnetic cannabinoids, or spice, shows no sign of decreasing.
Protests in Pakistan after the killing of Qandeel Baloch.
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Presenting violence of any sort as a cultural issue does not help prevent it.
Everyone in their place.
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It’s a nice idea: a society where people are judged on merit alone. But it remains a fiction.
Hard feelings in Tehran.
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What the Obama administration achieved with Iran deserves great credit. But can it endure?
Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness.
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A political scandal has laid bare the irreconcilable differences between to two main parties in the power-sharing agreement.