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Why is the UK parliament’s privileges committee taking so long to decide whether Boris Johnson misled the House of Commons during the post-Covid panic known as partygate? Here’s what MPs are saying: senior civil servants won’t talk for fear of being named.
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There is tremendous excitement in tech circles, and presumably anxiety wherever plagiarism is a problem…
Mass abortions
Rape has long been the hidden and brutal weapon of war and is seen in conflicts across the world – including the war in Ukraine…
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“Taking back control” of the UK’s borders means recognising that control is not a trophy but a responsibility. It also means speaking unwelcome truths to the British public
The former health secretary’s surprisingly successful performance in the jungle is a warning that purely technocratic politics is no longer enough
Last week’s autumn statement was meant to hem in Labour on fiscal policy. Now, Rishi Sunak is trying to tempt the Opposition leader onto lethal ground of a different sort.
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The siege of Mariupol
Jon Jones
25 April 2022
Evgeny Lebedev: In pictures
Jon Jones
28 February 2022
The Zone
Pierpaolo Mittica
15 December 2021
The bigger, worse picture
Jon Jones
8 July 2021
Solo, not alone
Harry Borden
17 June 2021
These are the disappearing nations
Vlad Sokhin
11 May 2021
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Emma Corrin’s performance as Orlando in Michael Grandage’s production of Virginia Woolf’s great experimental novel brings fresh life to a story that feels more contemporary than ever
Five years ago, New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey revealed the terrible truth about Harvey Weinstein. She Said is a gripping movie adaptation of the story that launched a worldwide movement
Timothée Chalamet and director Luca Guadagnino are reunited in a genre-blending movie that confronts taboos, juxtaposes romance and horror, and fires the imagination
How a former government minister abused the secrecy of the family courts in an attempt to hide the truth
Universities everywhere are failing to respond to widespread allegations of sexual assault and harassment
How many women are killed – but not counted? In the UK, we’re told that two women a week are killed by a current or former partner. But these are just the killings we know about…
In October 2017, Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered by a car bomb in Malta where she lived and worked. She was a prolific reporter, juggling dozens of stories at the same time.
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