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Angela Merkel calls for compromise amid row over Polish ECJ snub
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Angela Merkel, who earlier this week reflected on her deep hurt over Brexit, has called for European Union countries to compromise over their competing visions of integration, at what was being billed in Brussels as a...
Politics aside, Colin Powell was a Black man in America
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Perhaps the most revealing analogy for blackness can be found in the first section of the standard obituary. Most of these life synopses follow a straightforward template, with the first paragraph spelling out the bar...
Labour urges Dominic Raab to tackle justice system ‘chaos’
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The shadow justice secretary, David Lammy, has urged Dominic Raab to tackle the “chaos” in the justice system before unpicking human rights law, after Raab said he wanted to curb the power of the European court of hum...
Why Virginia holds the key to the 2022 US midterms: Politics Weekly Extra podcast
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This week Jonathan Freedland speaks to Jessica Taylor, of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter. The pair discuss what the off-year gubernatorial elections coming up in a few weeks might tell us about Democrat and...
Rice review – office politics brought sharply to life
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The Orange Tree theatre is creating a series of internationally focused plays with Actors Touring Company (ATC). Rice, their new co-production, fits the bill nicely. Written by the Asian-Australian playwright Michele ...
Dominic Cummings says UK always intended to ditch NI protocol
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The UK government always intended to “ditch” the Northern Ireland protocol, Boris Johnson’s former adviser Dominic Cummings has claimed. In a string of tweets, Cummings said the flawed Brexit deal had been a way to ge...
UK politics live: Tory ministers try to defend government’s Covid response after critical report
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Latest updates: Stephen Barclay says pandemic was unprecedented situation ministers were ‘learning about as we went through’
No 10 backs Kwasi Kwarteng in dispute with Treasury over help for businesses – politics live
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Boris Johnson’s spokesperson says he does not accept suggestions Treasury and Department for Business have fallen out