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Labour can’t ignore destitute Britain
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Slovakia: the EU’s new problem child
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Serhii Plohky: When the Russians occupied Chernobyl
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Germany’s far right will govern from the sidelines
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During the riots, we saw that solidarity is action
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Tayiba Sulaiman
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Labour’s private finance delusion
Stephen Glaister
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Starmer’s rule change is a vote for a better yesterday
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OBR technocrats can’t prevent bad government behaviour
Sam Freedman
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Paul Mason untangles the far-right networks linked to the recent anti-immigration riots. Jonathan Sumption critiques the US Supreme Court’s decision on Trump’s presidential immunity. Meanwhile, Lucy Lethbridge reviews a study of children’s literature.

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Tom Clark
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Miraculous music, miraculous muesli
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GERMANY
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Annette Dittert
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US election officials have plenty to fear
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Miraculous music, miraculous muesli
I’ve just returned from an Austrian festival devoted in large part to Franz Schubert—and would certainly recommend the experience
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World
High north, high drama
Isabel Hilton
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European Union
The end of the EU as we know it?
Nathalie Tocci
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Foreign Correspondence
How hope turned to horror in Venezuela
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Has Musk gone too far?
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Serhii Plohky: When the Russians occupied Chernobyl
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How Wes Streeting can solve the emergency care crisis—with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine
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Books
Forever young
Kids’ books are sometimes looked down upon. They shouldn’t be. As a new study shows, they’re our gateway to the universe
Lucy Lethbridge
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Top class
Tom Clark
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Culture
On the eighth day...
Rhodri Lewis
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Children of men
Francesca Peacock
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Hand-me-down economics
The accumulation of great wealth in the hands of a few has broken Britain’s social contract. Will Labour be bold enough to do the right thing?
Philip Collins
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Media
Out of time: How London became a news desert
Duncan Campbell
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Technology
When monoculture leads to monofailure
Ethan Zuckerman
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Food and Drink
Why are we still eating so much meat?
Julian Baggini
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Did the Murdoch empire hack MPs for commercial ends?
What if Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper company didn’t just hack phones to get a scoop, but targeted elected politicians—right to the very top—in pursuit of its business ambitions?
Nick Davies
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Phone Hacking
How Murdoch’s company magicked away 31 million emails
Nick Davies
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What did Rupert know, when?
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Did Washington Post publisher ‘pervert the course of justice’ under Murdoch?
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Michael Rosen’s diary: travelling the world, via the North Circular
Whether we’re en route to a Cornish inlet or a Sikh wedding, the inescapable North Surk is an exhibition of multicultural Britain
Michael Rosen
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People
Can the Light Phone help us switch off?
Ella Glover
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Beyond the algorithm
Katie Goh
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Misogyny in the kitchen
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