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- All our digital journalism in the members’ app
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- Regular Sensemaker newsletters, straight to your inbox
- 4 x digital memberships to give to friends, worth £400
- Tortoise Quarterly, a short book of long reads, four times a year
- Unlimited ThinkIn tickets in the newsroom. Bring a friend to each
- Signed copies of ThinkIn speakers’ books
- Special invitation-only events, hosted by Tortoise editors
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Members get complimentary tickets to our live events with extraordinary experts and Tortoise editors. Previous experts include Tony Blair, Madeleine Albright and David Baddiel.
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