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The last British Guantanamo detainee Shaker Aamer will be released

The only UK resident still being held in the military prison will finally return home. Shaker Aamer, the last British resident detained in Guantanamo Bay, will be released and allowed to return to the...

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Working together to ensure a sustainable future for uk aviation

In the UK aviation sector we have long recognised that ensuring a sustainable future for UK aviation necessitates a collective and long term strategy. That is why ten years ago UK airlines, airports,...

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Female BBC reporter films segment about harassment; gets catcalled

Painfully ironic.  You know how it is, ladies. You're just on the street, doing your thing, reporting street harassment for a local news station, when some men, clearly unaware of the concept of...

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Settlements – no more!

Everywhere you go in occupied Palestine there are more Israeli settlements roads and rail under construction.  The Wall extends through Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem into the heart of the West Bank...

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Is John McDonnell's new economic policy just continuity Ed Balls?

At first glance, John McDonnell's line on austerity looks a lot like Ed Balls's. But important differences lie beneath the surface. Continuity Balls? That's the first impression given by Labour's new...

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Hate thy neighbour: the hidden stories of the Holocaust

It is hardly possible to exaggerate the guilt of the Nazi regime, but not all of the wartime crimes committed in eastern Europe can be laid at its door. In the last days of June 1941, Nazi Germany...

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My fear is that Addenbrooke's is just the beginning

Conservative ministers have pushed the NHS to the brink of crisis, warns Heidi Alexander. Earlier this week Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, one of the biggest and most well-known teaching...

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Corbyn accepts shadow cabinet split on Trident in relaxed Marr performance

"Is it so disastrous to have two opinions?" the Labour leader asked in a strikingly calm and confident interview.  It was a relaxed and assured Jeremy Corbyn who took to Andrew Marr's sofa this...

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Labour will not debate Trident

Labour party conference will not vote on whether or not to scrap Trident. Labour will not debate the future of Britain's nuclear deterrent, after the motion on its future was defeated in the...

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The refugee crisis shows why we must stay in Europe

We must stay in the one organisation where we can make a difference on a global scale, says Mary Creagh. The Syria refugee crisis has shone a spotlight on the EU and Britain’s relationship with the EU...

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John McDonnell rebrands himself as "your bank manger". But can he pull it off?

The shadow chancellor ended his Today interview by supporting direct action.  Far more than Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell is pursuing a hasty rebranding strategy. Ahead of his first conference speech...

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Working together to ensure a sustainable future for uk aviation

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Settlements – no more!

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Forward Prize-winning poet Claudia Rankine on what it means to be black in...

“Only looking back do I gather up the moments.” Claudia Rankine is challenging our notions of what poetry should look like. Her latest volume, a mediation on race called Citizen: An American Lyric, has...

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Rugby? Even a stupid game played by stupid lumps can take on biblical...

The Japan game was the most thrilling, exciting, uplifting of any game in any sport I’ve seen all year. Oh, it’s not the Rugby World Cup again, haven’t they just had one, what more do they want?...

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What was so special about last night's super blood moon?

Is the world ending? And other important questions.  Tired? That's probably because you spent the early hours of this morning gawping at a larger-than-usual moon, and wondering why it wasn't as pink...

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Who is advising Jeremy Corbyn on economics?

John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn have selected an economic advisery committee to help create a “coherent alternative” to austerity. The details of Labour’s new economic advisory committee are out,...

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Why I'm proud to be a "bad migrant"

Rhetoric about "good" and "bad" migrants is making us lose our empathy for people who are desperate to find a better, safer life. Let me start by telling it straight: There are two types of migrants...

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John McDonnell's speech: big on vision, short on detail

The shadow chancellor's commitment to tackling the deficit was not matched by a foolproof plan.  John McDonnell, for so long the Robespierre of the left, is on a mission to reinvent himself. Labour's...

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The young Chekhov: a comedian in spite of himself

The Prank: the Best of Young Chekhov reveals how Anton Chekhov developed from jobbing hack to master of the short story. There are, at the very least, three Anton Chekhovs: the doctor, the playwright...

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