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The home secretary is campaigning against Brexit, but with a caveat.
Today’s classes were born out of the machine age. They are not fit for purpose in 21st century Britain.
An expert introduces Zac Goldsmith and Sadiq Khan, and considers their chances of securing one of the most coveted positions in politics.
Five more states will soon have their say in the Clinton-Sanders battle. But is it already over?
Britain is not taking its fair share of child asylum seekers.
MPs are considering a change to a policy that bans asylum seekers from working for 12 months.
Hull City Council claims poor recycling habits are costing it £50,000 a month, so now they’re taking action by removing resident’s bins.
The UN might now apologise for poisoning scores of Roma people in Kosovo – but its role in Haiti’s cholera disaster still goes unacknowledged.
The latest research shows that people are deserting TV for digital media. This is especially true of broadcast news.
The 1968 presidential election saw belligerent, race-baiting populism in full flower. Sound familiar?
Israeli politicians have become obsessed with their country’s global image – and they’re shoring it up by cracking down on the debate at home.
There’s no ‘public interest’ in this story, say the newspapers. As if that’s stopped them before.
Young people have the most at stake in the June 23 poll, but they know the least about the EU.
Barack Obama’s dour disappointment with Europe is far more powerful than his worries about a Brexit.
Six countries account for half of the EU migrants to the UK – but they’re not all from eastern Europe.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of gay people had their careers and lives blighted by official discrimination.
British mayors first appeared eight centuries before the current election campaigns.
The single market is a complicated beast. It won’t be that easy for the UK to get the post-Brexit deal it wants.
There have been squabbles of course, but the science project in Geneva is an example of putting differences aside to pursue common goals.
Britain’s longest-reigning monarch has seen a big rise in life expectancy since her birth in 1926.
After more than 20 years of tenuous ceasefire, Nagorno-Karabakh is once again the centre of a violent conflict. And its people haven’t exactly had their say.
It’s a demanding job, but all indicators suggest that the Queen is still up to it.
Hillary Clinton’s ‘slow and steady push’ is hardly inspiring. But it shows she is playing the long game, already positioning herself as the centrist candidate for the election in November.
The British monarchy is in good shape. Here’s how to make sure it stays that way.