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How Harry and Watson forced News Group Newspapers to admit wrongdoing Why the circumstances show it was NGN wanting to avoid a public trial—and not the costs risk on the claimants—that brought this ...

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Vladimir Putin has repeatedly threatened to escalate the war in Ukraine by breaking the nuclear taboo. In June, as Russia installed tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, he raised the spectre of a ...

When should you ban a far-right party? A motion to consider a ban of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), signed by 113 members of parliament, has been submitted to Bundestag. It’s a sign of how ...

Who really funds the Jewish Chronicle? Why it’s troubling that we don’t know… Four years ago, a mysterious consortium came to the rescue of the beleaguered publication—and nobody is really clear about ...

Exposed: How powerful newspapers hacked phones during Leveson According to astonishing new court papers, illegal interception took place for five years after the first phone-hacking arrests—and even ...

Philip Nitschke facilitated the world’s first legal assisted suicides in the 1990s. But is he the best advocate for the cause he so believes in?

After 6,000 years, wild bison are back in Britain Animals have been imported from across Europe to a rewilding project in Kent. Could they manage the land better than machines?

The Boott Cotton Mills Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts shakes and rattles with the movement of water-powered looms, massive and complex machines more than a century old. Based in what is now a ...

Two friends are holding hands, blocking the entrance to the Royal Courts of Justice. Their grasp is stuck with glue, and they’ve fixed their free hands to the metal gateposts. The pair are making a ...

Imagine that a populist, hard-right party takes office and begins dismantling democracy. Except this time, it’s in Britain ...