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When European Union heads meet at the end of this month, they are likely to issue a warning to bureaucracies and firms to step up preparations for a no-deal Brexit, also known as a “hard” or “cliff-edge” Brexit, because that’s where things appear to ...
DATE: Jun 21, 2018
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Rule No 1 of successful litigation: find yourself a sympathetic plaintiff. The anti-affirmative action activists behind the present lawsuit charging Harvard University with racial discrimination in undergraduate admissions have certainly checked that...
DATE: Jun 21, 2018
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The build-up to the one-on-one meeting between Donald Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had greater publicity than any blockbuster movie in recent times — mainly because both have reputations for doing things their way, irrespective of ba...
DATE: Jun 21, 2018
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Al Seymour
The football World Cup has barely started, but it has already created a moral dilemma for some. Ukrainian artist Andriy Yermolenko made a series of “alternative promo posters” for the World Cup now unfolding in Russia, replete with blood, skulls and ...
DATE: Jun 20, 2018
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When I was growing up, the phrase “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” was often recounted as a taunt in response to words. I have come to realise that this term is untrue. Words can and do hurt. Words can be used to d...
DATE: Jun 20, 2018
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On Sunday, The Washington Post reported on a previously unknown point of contact between the 2016 Donald Trump campaign and a Russian offering negative information about Hillary Clinton. That new report, involving a Trump campaign staffer and long-ti...
DATE: Jun 19, 2018
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California voters recalled a judge last week for the first time in more than 85 years. The politics of punishment are already pathological; the recall will make them worse.
The particulars of the case by now ring familiar: Santa Clara County Superior...
DATE: Jun 14, 2018
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A succession of memorandums of understanding with cryptocurrency firms is starting to sound like the promises made by the Progressive Labour Party during the failed “platinum period” when plans for new hotels failed to materialise.
The Government has...
DATE: Jun 14, 2018
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Michael Dunkley
About 123 people die of it every day, but we still don’t want to talk about it. Those left behind often don’t receive casseroles or cards, flowers or fundraisers, hugs or visits.
The obituaries, too, are evasive, resorting to euphemisms such as “died...
DATE: Jun 12, 2018
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Petula Dvorak
I don’t need to explain the seriousness of life or overly dramatise the concerns that too many people have about their future, and the safety and prospects for their children. Many years ago there was a little slang that people in my circles would ar...
DATE: Jun 11, 2018
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Khalid Wasi
