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For a stagnating left mired in pessimism, Milton's radical vision is poetry in motion
Is this pessimism?\", TJ Clark asks in his 2012 essay For a Left with No Future. \"Well, yes.\" How else, he wonders, \"are we meant to understand the arrival of real ruin in the order of global finance... and the almost complete failure of left responses to it to resonate beyond the ranks of the faithful?\"
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March 02, 2025
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PKK's ceasefire after 40 years marks 'new phase' for peace effort in Turkey
Kurdish militia fighters have declared a ceasefire in their 40-year insurgency against Turkey, after their imprisoned leader called for the group to disarm and dissolve last week.
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March 02, 2025
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I spy movie magic - visual effects pioneer sets out to reanimate UK film industry
Even the most talented visual effects artists would struggle to make their profession sparkle right now.
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March 02, 2025
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The path to gang violence begins at four years old: why early action could be key
As one watches the four- and five-year-olds sitting in a circle on the carpet at Rushey Green primary school enthusiastically describing picture cards, gang violence is one of the last things that come to mind.
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March 02, 2025
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'I hate my school': the growing group of would-be killers flying under the radar
US shootings fuel a rise in plots to attack UK classrooms. The challenge is to spot likely perpetrators, reports Lizzie Dearden
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March 02, 2025
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David Archer, let it go. Beavers are nature's answer to our broken rivers
The cute rodent helps combat drought and boosts biodiversity. Its rewilding is welcome and long overdue
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March 02, 2025
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Bezos's giant leap for self-publicity
A pop star, a TV host and a billionaire's fiancée walk into a private rocket ship.
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March 02, 2025
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Renouncing aid and the EU, Starmer sucked up to Trump
Most people I know were concerned about the prospect of a second Trump presidency; but we did not have a vote. However, those Republicans who elected him should have been mindful of the old Chinese proverb: be careful what you wish for.
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March 02, 2025
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With Nato adrift and Brussels snubbed, is the UK the key to Europe's response to Trump?
In a fast-moving crisis, the EU has not been nimble enough. The onus must now fall on 'coalitions of the willing' to stop a US-Putin carve-up
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March 02, 2025
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'Ethical' funds invested in Glencore mines
JP Morgan's 'sustainable' funds ploughed more than £200m into firm accused of environmental breaches
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March 02, 2025
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Friend or foe? Starmer now walks a tightrope between Europe and US
No sooner had the PM charmed the president in the Oval Office than consensus over Ukraine - and the future of Nato - was starting to fall apart
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March 02, 2025
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'We cleared the rubble with our bare hands': Mosul rises from the ruins
Iraqis rejoice as city shattered by IS reopens 850-year-old mosque in time for Ramadan
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March 02, 2025
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Trump may have called it 'great TV', but even some allies were turned off
The president's public row with Volodymyr Zelenskyy has split the US commentariat, with many regretting the cameras were running at all.
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March 02, 2025
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A stain on the Riviera: the brutal world of Nice's cocaine cartels
Residents of an estate on the city's outskirts tell Richard Assheton of gunfights, arson and murder as gangs vie for control of a lucrative drugs market
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March 02, 2025
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Kyiv still backing Zelenskyy - just after ambush in the Oval Office
There was widespread support for Ukraine's president at home and dismay at his car-crash encounter in the Oval Office on Friday. There was also praise for Volodymyr Zelenskyy's insistence that a peace deal without security guarantees was meaningless, and that Russia could not be trusted.
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March 02, 2025
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Victims' tsar hits out at chancellor's funding cuts
The government has cut millions of pounds in funding for victims' services, prompting warnings that \"criminals will go unpunished\" unless it urgently changes its position.
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March 02, 2025
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In this dangerous age, Britain needs to exert soft power as well as the hard stuff
Shortly before he flew to Washington, Sir Keir Starmer turned up in the Commons, put on his sombre voice and declared: \"Everything has changed.\"
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March 02, 2025
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"My partner's crazy spending ruined me' Exposing the ugly truth of coerced debt
With lives in tatters, victims of this type of economic abuse feel they have no recourse. But help is out there
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March 02, 2025
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Royal welcome for Zelenskyy after White House meltdown
Starmer offers 'unwavering' support | EU leaders hold crisis talks in London
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March 02, 2025
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Germany faces a world of change as the far right waits in the wings
Friedrich Merz of the CDU is set to win today but Donald Trump’s presidency means he faces historic challenges, writes Deborah Cole in Berlin
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February 23, 2025
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Don't gift our work to AI billionaires, artists and authors demand
Original British art and creative skill is in peril thanks to the rise of AI and the government's plans to loosen copyright rules, some of the UK's leading cultural figures have said.
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February 23, 2025
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Rape victims are waiting too long for court cases, say top lawyers
Campaigners urge overhaul of system for prioritising hearings as less serious crimes move ahead in queue
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February 23, 2025
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iPhone's Ive still asks: 'I wonder what Jobs would do?'
Sir Jony Ive, the innovative designer of Apple's iMac, iPhone and Apple Watch, and a close friend and collaborator of the late Steve Jobs, says he still often asks himself: “I wonder what Steve would do?”
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February 23, 2025
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The property developer Trump trusts enough to be his troubleshooter
His friendship with the president dates back to a late-night encounter in a deli in the 1980s. Now Steve Witkoff is a loyal envoy brokering the Gaza ceasefire and peace talks on Ukraine.
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February 23, 2025
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'Exploitation' of migrant farm workers paid for picks, not hours
Call for investigation into pay for labourers on seasonal UK visas
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February 23, 2025
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She used art to fight apartheid. Now it's Trump and Musk in artist's sights
Ahead of a career retrospective, activist Sue Williamson, 84, tells Rachel Savage how the US president and his ally are trying to gaslight South Africa
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February 23, 2025
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Spending big on defence is a win for Rachel Reeves, Britain and the world
A tax overhaul would enable Labour to raise cash to boost security. But it must act swiftly
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February 23, 2025
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Soil study could cut farm use of fertilisers
A biological mechanism that makes plant roots more attractive to soil microbes has been discovered by scientists in the UK. The breakthrough - by researchers at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, Norfolk - opens the door to the creation of crops requiring reduced amounts of nitrate and phosphate fertilisers, they say.
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February 23, 2025
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Shelters turn young rough sleepers away as homeless crisis worsens
Soaring numbers living on the streets means that 'things are going backwards', warns charity chief.
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February 23, 2025
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Anti-migrant hate is flourishing in Germany's 'time of the cowards'
Today’s vote will show how far xenophobia has been driving even some traditionally progressive parties
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