Headed for Syria?
Peter Gronemann
After Paris, the PM hopes to win support for extending airstrikes against Islamic State, but the plan doesn’t seem to have changed much.
Fooding Around
When John McDonnell read a quote from Chairman Mao in parliament, jaws hit the floor.
Laughter is the best medicine … for the government benches.
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The Labour leader stands no chance of winning an election if he can’t win over the media.
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Defence wins, NHS survives and local government faces massive regional inequalities.
Me next!
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The question of who will replace the Queen as Head of Commonwealth is not as simple as it sounds.
Eyes on 2020.
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Chancellor George Osborne has laid out his plans for UK spending for the next five years.
The rape of older people has been missed off national statistics.
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New research reveals how many people over the age of 60 have been raped in the UK – and it is time to act.
Reclaiming the homeland.
Reuters/Daron Dean
Furious nativist radicals are on the march – but are they really all birds of a feather?
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The general synod meets in London with discussion on how to stop declining congreations high up the agenda.
“I’m right behind you … hopefully.”
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The British PM wants military action in Syria. First, he must convince a reluctant parliament.
Look out behind you: Jeremy Corbyn replies to David Cameron’s defence statement.
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Corbyn can’t replicate his wider popularity among MPs. Will it cost him?
Video footage shows a burning trail as a plane comes down after being shot down near the Turkish-Syrian border.
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The incident couldn’t have come at a worse time for efforts to negotiate a joint approach to the campaign against Islamic State in Syria.
Some breathing space for the armed forces.
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Budgets were decimated in 2010, but the latest Strategic Defence and Security Review seeks to make amends.
A new start with Macri?
Reuters/Ivan Alvarado
Victory for centre right candidate brings an end to decades of leftist rule.
Cut from a different cloth: outgoing Ewa Kopacz (left) welcomes successor Beata Szydło into office.
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With hardliners taking charge of the government and presidency in Warsaw, the migrant rhetoric is looking worrying. But how much will change in practice?
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Vladimir Putin has been proved right again as Western priorities shift from removing Assad to destroying Islamic State.
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‘Terrorism incubators’? The truth is far more complex.
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As Paris tries to come to terms with what has happened, unified responses to the terror attacks will be crucial.
A policy with big holes in it.
Reuters/Ho New
With 12 years of vote-winning diplomatic stunts, the Kirchners have galvanised the Falkland Islanders against Argentina for years to come.
Standing up for the little guy.
Reuters/Brian Snyder
The irascible, unassuming junior senator from Vermont is riding high – and the effect could echo for years to come.
Vicky Thompson: let down by the system.
Facebook/Vikki Steele
Transgender woman Vikki Thompson died after being placed in an all-male prison. It’s time we stuck up for the rights of trans people.
Military forces outside the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako where hostages were taken.
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The hostage situation at a hotel in the Malian capital Bamako comes after months of sporadic violence.
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The sad history of Belgium has left fertile ground for terrorism in this struggling neighbourhood.
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It may oversimplify the issue but at least a new video animation on consent isn’t victim blaming.
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Politicians hate secrecy when in opposition but grow to love it when in power.