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  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    UK politics
    UK rioters to face ‘swift justice’ as Starmer convenes Cobra over violence

    Emergency government committee set to meet after weekend of clashes

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    Rioters in Rotherham target a hotel housing asylum seekers on Sunday
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    Flows of cocaine to Europe from South America have swelled over the past decade

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  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
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    Labour has the UK’s wealthier over-65s in its sights

    Removing winter fuel subsidies for all but the poorest pensioners, is the first of many tough choices, the chancellor has warned

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    Middle-class families seek more affordable destination amid slowing economy at home

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  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
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    Fresh violence flares after dozens of rioters arrested across England

    Mob storms hotel housing asylum seekers as PM vows ‘extremists’ will feel full force of law

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  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
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    A horrific knife attack, disinformation and extremists whipping up anger have all played a role in triggering a shocking outburst of violence

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  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    UK society
    Starmer vows ‘extremists’ will feel full weight of law after riot arrests

    Judges consider keeping courts open all night after mobs clash with police across England

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  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
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    Beware the march of the childless voter

    JD Vance’s attack on people without kids flies in the face of demographic reality

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  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
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    Republican former US president’s campaign misfires in face of a revitalised Democratic party

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  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
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    Rioting breaks out in Sunderland as UK police brace for weekend of unrest

    Home Office warns that anyone using violence will face ‘full force of the law’

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  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
    FT Magazine
    Photobombing de Gaulle: how a forgotten picture rewrites the history of WWII

    For the triumphant liberation of Paris in August 1944, black soldiers were kept out of sight. George Dukson didn’t get the memo

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    Growing number of household animals amid declining human population forecast to build $12bn pet food market by 2030

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    A strange new alliance is growing between those who want to restrict abortion and those asking their compatriots to have more children

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  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
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  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    UK crime
    Who is behind the UK’s far-right riots?

    Police face ‘wider mesh’ of adversaries fuelled by social media as violence spreads

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  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Turkey blocks Instagram over ‘censorship’ of Hamas leader’s death

    Erdoğan adviser and communications chief accuses US platform of not allowing ‘messages of condolence’ for Ismail Haniyeh

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  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Paris Olympics
    Olympics chiefs blame ‘misleading information’ for women’s boxing row

    IOC defends decision to include two competitors barred by international federation after opponent abandons fight

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  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
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    The former president has been inept in responding to Kamala Harris’s rapid elevation

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  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
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    The end of the house party

    Have the housing and rental markets finally killed this form of wild, bombastic chaos — and reduced it to a nostalgic, commercialised ‘immersive experience’?

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  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
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    Kids’ furniture is a con

    Parents have been indoctrinated to think that buying child-specific designs is a question of survival. It’s not

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  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    The Big Read
    How medical research is failing women

    For years, the process for developing and testing new drugs has focused disproportionately on male bodies — to the detriment of female patients

  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    ‘I’ve been waiting for this my whole life’: Kamala Harris energises America’s women

    Democrat’s polling strength has also been underpinned by jump in support among the young and voters of colour

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  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    The Aesthete
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    The London-based philanthropist loves kohl eyeliner, Lalique deer and a dream-filled sleep

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