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Couples filing for divorce have an incentive to pin the blame for marriage breakdown on one person. This should stop.
One of the world’s cleaner democracies just threw out its president for corruption. How can countries do a better job of keeping their leaders clean?
The ideology of ‘manifest destiny’ has underpinned centuries of discriminatory legislation and violence against the US’s indigenous people.
Caroline Johnson won with a large majority in the by-election in Lincolnshire.
The leader of the Dutch Freedom Party was found guilty of insulting a group of people inciting discrimination.
The frenzied response to this year’s most examined courtesy call played right into Beijing’s hands.
This year saw nuclear weapons tested, stockpiles renewed, and disasters remembered.
Why Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale’s federalist ploy is not the right way forward.
England’s much-loved comic writer has been recognised as a classic of 20th-century literature.
Political disagreements are hampering those still looking for justice.
When it comes to public services, it’s not just a question of demand, but also one of supply.
The historical animosity remains.
Will the world be safer if Trump meant the things he said on the campaign trail, or if he didn’t?
The government says its reforms have supported people from all backgrounds. They have done nothing of the sort.
In history and mythology, Europe always begins somewhere else. That should tell us something about creeping nationalism.
The famous story of a group of schoolboys trapped on an island is more than a little reminiscent of the real world right now.
Trump understood that the world is changing.
It’s like the Indian Mutiny all over again (but much less violent).
A new report has suggested migrants should be required to pledge allegiance to British values on arrival in the UK.
The border across the island of Ireland is to become the only direct frontier with Europe, which is a major political problem.
Ukraine is implementing a deal to placate its restive separatists – but other countries have had trouble with similar strategies.
A new review on integration in Britain lumps much of the blame on housebound Muslim women.
This was a vote against the prime minister – not a show of support for his rivals.
The revolt that brought down Matteo Renzi is no carbon copy of Trump et al, but that won’t be of much comfort to Brussels.