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The city's housing problems must be understood in the context of how its richest residents, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, made their money
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Brilliant piece of writing. xx
7 Apr 8:01pm
Brilliant piece of writing. xx
7 Apr 8:01pm
For sure, Trump's nuclear button is way bigger but who knows what Kim may have up in his sleeve? Just don't forget that once you are dead, you are dead. And Kim will try to take as many of us and our allies with him as he can. https://www.quora.com/Is-So
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Talk of tax cuts and curbs to immigration will only go so far – the gilets jaunes protesters need to be listened to nowEarlier this month, in an
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The results of the rampant inequality engineered by the global elite are finally catching up with them Pity the poor billionaire, for today he feels a new and unsettling emotion: fear. The world order he once clung to is crumbling faster than the value of the pound. In its place, he frets, will come chaos. Remember this, as the
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New figures show a dramatic growth in the popularity of poetry among young people. A poet gives her view of the boom
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Prince Philip’s road accident is a vivid reminder of the absurdity of current rules based on age. They urgently need debate I still remember the frustration I felt as a teenager at the plethora of inconsistent rules that governed what I could and could not do, on the basis solely of my age: when I could vote, marry, drive a car or buy drinks. I am now reaching the stage in life when a whole new set of age-based cans and can’ts are starting to determine what I’m allowed to do.
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President Mnangagwa should take responsibility for the draconian measures used to quash protests over fuel price rises
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If your friends and family are deliberately keeping themselves off social media - extend the courtesy by asking before you put pictures of them online
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Readers respond to John Harris’s article on the disenfranchisement felt by some leave votersRegarding John Harris’s article (
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a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/dec/21/nicholas-crichton-obituary" title="">Nicholas Crichton’s obituary
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Voting by proxy will be trialed, mainly because the behaviour of the Tory whips office mean straightforward honour can no longer be relied upon
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The Labour leader's rise shows you can't inoculate a population against socialism
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We are in an infinity loop of our own making
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The US has come to share Arab regimes' phobia towards street movements of any sort
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Inviting a largely uninformed public to make a judgement on something as unfathomably complex as EU membership was akin to asking a six-year-old to perform brain surgery – with a crayon
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Please send your letters to letters@independent.co.uk
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With a medical research industry as sophisticated as ours, it's a scandal that we know so little about women's bodies
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If the social media giants can’t cope with the sheer volume of spite, then it’s down to parliament to protect minority groups What sort of person repeatedly picks on a disabled child in the most vicious and cruel of terms? The answer, of course, is the sort of people the model
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Women expose themselves to more than 200 synthetic chemicals during their 'beauty' regime. The harms are well documented but largely ignored
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If voters supported her plan in a Final Say vote, it would be a lifeline that could have the necessary weight to bring MPs on her side
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I emailed my old friend and asked what he would do if he were still head of the civil service. Here is his reply “What is the function of the
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