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Police response to disorder after Southport attack was ‘entirely appropriate’, says home affairs committeeThe way police responded to the riots that swept the country last summer was “entirely appropriate”, a parliamentary report has found.MPs considere...
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Government acknowledges that many victims have felt too nervous to engage with officials from Home OfficeA £1.5m fund has been launched to encourage people affected by the Windrush scandal to come forward to seek compensation, as ministers finally acknowledge that many vi...
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New data shows cabinet ministers among MPs at risk as campaign to pressure government over proposed benefit cuts to step upAt least 80 Labour MPs are at risk of losing their majorities over proposed ...
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Listings on resale site suggest that touts are speculatively selling tickets they do not yet haveThe ticket resale platform Viagogo has been accused of failing to prevent “misleading and potenti...
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Winston Jones, who for a decade was unable to return home from Jamaica, almost didn’t apply for compensation, fearing it was a trapWinston Jones has worked hard to rebuild his life after Home Office errors meant he was unable to return to his family in the UK for 10 years...
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This harrowing study of the Russian leader’s weaponising of sexual violence argues that misogyny goes hand in hand with imperialismIn 1944, the Red Army pushed the Germans out of the Baltic state of Estonia. Soon afterwards, Soviet officers took away Sofi Oksanen’s great-...
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David Williams lost his mother, his marriage fell apart and he was diagnosed with a brain tumour. But it took one more blow to bring him to tearsDavid Williams was 17 when his moth...
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Lured by promises of an education but allegedly trapped in servitude and self-mortification, the former members are suing the ultra-conservative organisation over their ‘exploitation and abuse’The first item Opus Dei gave 12-year-old Andrea Martínez was a pink dress. The ...
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A local food writer selects places to eat that offer a flavour of Lisbon’s fast-evolving restaurant sceneThis fun, welcoming restaurant – a renovated tavern with traditional tiled floor in the Santa Apolónia neighbourhood – focuses on the flavours of the Algarve....
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The truth is, we were always dangerously overexposed to decisions made in Washington – consider this chaotic moment an opportunity“People speak with forked tongues about America,” a veteran foreign correspondent once said to me. It was a long time ago – during a debate ab...