One woman’s journey from an extreme survivalist childhood to studying at Cambridge
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How a left-wing coalition government has functioned better than even its creators could have hoped.
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Commons confidential: Momentum’s Christine Shawcroft loses comrades with furious Whatsapp messages
Your weekly dose of gossip from Westminster.
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Leader: The dark power of Facebook
For all its spiel about “connecting the world”, the social network is an advertising business that has prospered by harvesting our data.
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The Facebooker who fell to earth: how Chris Hughes learned to limit his ambitions
His own fortune is down to luck, but now Hughes is helping to fund research into ending poverty in the US.
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Italy’s salvation will not come with a sleek and smarmy redeemer like Berlusconi
The 81-year-old politician is symptomatic of the “anti-elite” animus now affecting much of the western world.
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Cape Town is running out of water and Day Zero is looming
“You can’t avoid it. If Day Zero happens, Cape Town becomes a dysfunctional space.” But isn’t it already?
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Commons Confidential: Is Jeremy Hunt preparing to check out from his role in the cabinet?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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