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You can bash Boris Johnson for many things. But only if he said them

Boris Johnson’s first Prime Minister’s Questions session after his humiliating parliamentary defeat confirmed something researchers proved to be true some years ago: People don’t often read a lot of...

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Only Plato can explain the confusion over Brexit in the UK’s highest courts

Three different UK courts have issued three different rulings on prime minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament for longer than usual. It’s all very head-spinning even in the age of...

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Thomas Cook found the age of Empire easier than the age of Expedia

Today, the head of the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority tried to put the collapse of Thomas Cook, the world’s oldest travel company, into context. Deirdre Hutton told the BBC that the 178-year-old company...

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What is the UK Supreme Court and who is the woman who heads it?

The UK Supreme Court has decided that prime minister Boris Johnson acted unlawfully in controversially advising Queen Elizabeth to suspend parliament for five weeks, just 17 days ahead of Brexit....

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This year’s Nobel peace prize really has gone to a peacemaker

The 2019 Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Ethiopia’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed Ali for working to end almost two decades of conflict with neighboring Eritrea. Ethiopia’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed...

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Watch: Our call on the countdown to Brexit

Since the Brexit referendum in June 2016, which appeared to give a mandate for leaving the European Union, Britain has seen years of negotiations, arguments,…

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The UK’s general election is the most unpredictable in a generation

Britain will vote on December 12, the first election in that month since 1923, the third in four years, and a contest that is likely to be the most unpredictable in a generation. There are two main...

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Boris Johnson won. Now the Trump comparisons will be put to the test

Boris Johnson has often been compared to Donald Trump, and for reasons that go beyond their distinctive blonde hairstyles. The UK’s shift to the right—starting with the Brexit referendum in 2016, a few...

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In Bethlehem, a Christmas story with a modern message—and Jingle Bells in Arabic

At the newly-renovated Church of the Nativity where, the story goes, Jesus, the Prince of Peace was born, pilgrims from around the world are gathering for midnight mass. But for some, the real...

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All the ways the world made it harder to be a good person in 2019

There is a moment in season three of the American comedy television series The Good Place in which Michael, the lead protagonist, has an epiphany about the problem with modern life. “Every day,” he...

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Why did Carlos Ghosn flee to Lebanon?

Carlos Ghosn’s clandestine trip from Japan to Lebanon has made headlines around the world. The former head of Renault-Nissan, who was charged with financial misconduct in Japan and put under close...

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Iran’s Qasem Soleimani matters in death as much as in life

The US Department of Defense announced today that an American airstrike in Baghdad killed Qasem Soleimani, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force. This triggered a spike in oil and...

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