It’s not bad luck that results in two senior US presidential advisers being either found, or pleading, guilty to corruption charges in a single day.
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Some of the Guardian’s economics team really do need to learn some basic facts. This was published  this morning as part of an explanation for
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The challenges within our economy and society can only grow as far as I can see. At the most basic level at some time soon
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The Bailiwick Express, which publishes Channel Island news, has reported: A US sanctions-hit aluminium company linked to a controversial billionaire Russian oligarch accused of extortion and
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By chance I pick this headline from the Aberdeen Evening Express: it is typical of many  published on the last day or so: Just over one
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I admire my friends who think we will stay in the EU. I wish I shared any of their confidence. I can’t see it happening.
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Will Hutton has an article in the Guardian in which he argues that the recent decline in the growth of life expectancy in the UK
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And now for something completely different: RIP

Carl Bildt is the co-chair of the  European Council on Foreign Relations. He posted this on Twitter just now: There is an element of truth
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