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Between the lines
Warsan Shire is poetry’s new superstar, and Beyoncé’s writer of choice; Bernardine Evaristo is a Booker-winning champion of rising talent. They swap notes on class, impostor syndrome and working in front of the TV
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March 04, 2022
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A Balancing Act What Is In The Data Leak And Why Are We Publishing It?
In popular culture, there is nowhere safer to stash your cash than the vault of a Swiss bank.
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February 25, 2022
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Wake Up! The Right Is Relying On Culture Wars To Win At The Ballot Box
There are two lines of attack in the culture wars. The first is slow, steady and discreet, marching by stealth through Britain’s institutions.
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February 25, 2022
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Hong Kong Kept Covid At Bay For Two Years. What Went Wrong?
The beds pile up outside Hong Kong’s Caritas hospital. In the cold night, elderly patients lie on gurneys covered with blankets and thermal foil sheets.
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February 25, 2022
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Is Electric Car Boom Driving Up Pollution?
Allegations of air and water contamination by one of the largest mines for nickel, a key material for greener motoring
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February 25, 2022
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Switzerland At Risk Of EU Blacklist After Credit Suisse Leaks
The fallout from a huge leak of Credit Suisse banking data threatened to damage Swit-zerland’s financial sector on Monday after the European parliament’s main political grouping raised the prospect of adding the country to a money-laundering blacklist.
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February 25, 2022
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Darkness falls
The decision by an isolated and angry Vladimir Putin to send Russian troops over the Ukrainian border will change the security architecture in Europe and may well lead to a horrific war
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February 25, 2022
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Rare groove The DJ who wants to give away all her records
On a hillside an hour from Madrid lies a sprawling, tropical-hued complex crammed with 1950s Mexican film posters and prowled by the odd decorative monkey and jaguar.
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February 25, 2022
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Unsettled Why clients of Epstein should not rest easy
After news of Prince Andrew’s settlement with his accuser Virginia Giuffre, the question of who or what the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell sex -trafficking conspiracy will envelop next remains.
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February 25, 2022
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‘I am not leaving this house to go to live in some tent'
As conscription papers arrive in Donetsk, people along the border have been told to leave – but not everyone wants to go
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February 25, 2022
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‘Whatever horrors they do, they do in secret'
Mazar-i-Sh arif was the most secular and liberal of Afghan cities. But 20 years of corruption and misrule left it ripe for retaking by the Taliban. Will anything be diff erent this time?
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February 25, 2022
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This Short-Sighted, Libertarian Dash For The Covid Exit Is Reckless
It was an extraordinary way to end nearly two years of restrictions and lockdowns.
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February 18, 2022
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Can Bitcoin Go Green?
A giant Norwegian crypto-mining operation is recycling its waste heat, pushing back against criticism of the famously energy-intensive industry
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February 18, 2022
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War games
Amid bleak western intelligence briefi ngs, fading diplomatic hopes and an exodus of foreign nationals from Kyiv, one key question has remained unanswered up to now: exactly how far is Vladimir Putin ready to go to achieve his goals?
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February 18, 2022
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‘Open door' Could Sarah Palin make a return to politics?
Removing a white facemask as she took to the witness stand behind a protective screen, Sarah Palin likened herself to the biblical David taking on the mighty Goliath of American media, the New York Times.
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February 18, 2022
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Super fly
Cochabamba’s female skateboard collective ImillaSkate has adopted traditional Bolivian clothing as a symbol of resistance. The distinctive look is one way of celebrating their indigenous heritage
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February 18, 2022
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Nudge Theory
How gambling-firms keep punters coming back for more
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February 18, 2022
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Pécresse makes anti-immigrant play to fend off far right
The rightwing French presi-dential candidate Valérie Pécresse vowed to crack down on immigration as she held her first big rally last Sunday amid competition from the growing far right and defections from her party to the centrist leader Emmanuel Macron.
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February 18, 2022
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Fragile states Why do military coups keep happening?
Weak institutions and jihadism are factors behind the frequent overthrow of governments in the region
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February 18, 2022
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How a new generation of educated girls defied the Taliban
When the Taliban reached Parveen Tokhi’s home province of Zabul in mid-August and asked to use her school as a temporary barracks, the headteacher was frightened but clear about what she had to do.
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February 18, 2022
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Forced out The demise of the Met's ‘tin-eared' trailblazer
Five years ago, the announce-ment that Cressida Dick would be the first female head of Britain’s biggest force seemed a landmark moment for policing and the nation.
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February 18, 2022
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Eat me!
Micro-organisms have evolved processes that let them digest plastics. Could they remedy one of Earth’s most pressing problems?
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February 11, 2022
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‘Tanks, tanks' On the border with Ukraine, citizens sense onset of war
The military train lurched into the rail depot at Kursk, carrying more snow-dusted main battle tanks, self-propelled artillery and other heavy weapons to within a few hours’ drive by car of the Ukrainian border.
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February 11, 2022
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Red poets' society
Between 1982 and 1989, a Stasi poetry-writing group met regularly in Berlin. But was it really just an innocent literary club?
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February 11, 2022
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Scholz slated for ‘inaudible' position on Ukraine
Germany’s new chancellor Olaf Scholz is waving goodbye to the honeymoon period of his tenure, as his “inaudible” stance over the brewing crisis on the Ukrainian border is failing to impress not only Russia-hawks abroad but also more ambivalent voters at home.
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February 11, 2022
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Cold thaw? Xi and Putin attack west in ‘no limits' unity display
While a full alliance between Moscow and Beijing is unlikely, they want to roll back US influence
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February 11, 2022
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The Covid culture wars
It began as a protest against vaccine mandates – but does Ottawa’s truck driver blockade signal the birth of a dangerous new political movement?
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February 11, 2022
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PM on the brink as ally calls his exit ‘inevitable'
Boris Johnson’s desperate efforts to save his premier ship were undermined last weekend as one of his most loyal backbench supporters said it was now “inevitable” that Tory MPs would remove him from office over the “party gate” scandal .
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February 11, 2022
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One year on The striking workers still fleeing from the military
‘For fear of being arrested , we haven’t been able to go home for nine months’
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February 11, 2022
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Carrie Johnson No 10 puppet master or easy target?
Some say the prime minister’s wife is pulling the strings at Downing Street while others dismiss such claims as sexist
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