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Vladimir by Julia May Jonas review – slippery sexual politics
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“I ask this one thing:/let me go mad in my own way,” opens the epigraph – taken from Sophocles’s Antigone – of Julia May Jonas’s debut novel. It unfolds in the wake of seven allegations of sexual misconduct against a ...
Dominic Thiem and Ons Jabeur slip to first-round defeats in French Open
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There was a time, not long ago, when Dominic Thiem was better placed than anyone to emerge as the next new champion on these grounds. For four consecutive years, from 2016 and 2019, Thiem marched deep into the French ...
If Dominic Cummings were still running No 10, would we have given up on Ukraine?
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Play the “what if” history game and it is easy to see the west betraying the people of Ukraine. What if Donald Trump had won the 2020 US presidential election? You do not need to go back and read of his envious admira...
High-spend politics might make great TV, but democracy pays the price for it
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (pre-Brexit that is), I was vaguely involved in British politics. One thing that always stood out for me was how people from both main parties would often complain that Britis...
‘Politics should steer clear’: rainbow flag set to fly over Wimmera
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A special meeting of West Wimmera Shire council has overturned a decision against flying the rainbow flag. The council ruling clears the way for the internationally recognised pride flag to fly above the rural Victori...
How senior GOP figures tried to oust Trump: Politics Weekly America podcast
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This week Jonathan Freedland speaks to Jonathan Martin of the New York Times after the publication of his new book This Will Not Pass and what he and his co-author Alexander Burns unearthed about events behind the sce...