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Giving evidence: Doctors and the Courts Join this event to improve your knowledge of the Courts and to learn or improve your written and verbal skills in relation to them.

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Nigeria Always Had Cultural Swagger – Now It’s An International Art Capital The opening of ‘Nigerian Modernism’ at Tate Modern momentarily readjusted London’s cultural temperature, says Funmi Fetto, who adds that it reflects a wider shift that has rightly placed Nigeria at th...

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Dear Britain, do you worry that Team Farage is just a hot mess in power? Or is everyone too angry to care | Marina Hyde Footage of Reform councillors fighting is further proof that uselessness abounds, but that’s almost moot. To voters they are very useful idiots, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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SOUTHERN AFRICA RECORD HEAT

Record heat continues unabated in Southern Africa with scorching temperatures day and night also at high elevations.
Tonight the Minimum at Lethlakane in the BOTSWANA Highlands was 25.6C, its hottest October night on record.

Punish Prince Andrew? This is no meritocracy, I’m afraid – you get the royal family you didn’t vote for | Marina Hyde After years of drip-fed revelations, we might as well face it. This is a family elevated by birthright: they’re stuck with him and so are we, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Very quick update on Covid in England Covid wave has possibly peaked and flu looks like it's starting early

Very quick update on Covid in England from latest UKHSA hospital data. Looks like current Covid wave *might* have peaked, and also that flu season is starting a little earlier than normal.

If you can get vaxxed for either, I'd do it!

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Giving evidence: Doctors and the Courts Join this event to improve your knowledge of the Courts and to learn or improve your written and verbal skills in relation to them.

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Why Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East | Oliver Eagleton The Blair-Trump fantasy for postwar Gaza shows the former PM still thinks that free enterprise can solve all the world’s ills, says associate editor at the New Left Review Oliver Eagleton

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Have *you* been affected by drama - on stage, in the street, in your day to day *life*?? Then check out this new @crasshlive.bsky.social research network steered by me, @femimind.bsky.social, Cassie Lowe and Rosalind Parker: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/networks/affective-encounters/

Bologna midday

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Verona tonight

It’s the art of the dodgy deal, Middle East edition: author Donald Trump, updated by Jared Kushner | Marina Hyde Does the Donald know that there’s a new master negotiator in town? Of course he does, he taught the apprentice everything he knows, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Tony Harrison, poet and dramatist, dies aged 88 Known for his outspoken politics, the author was acclaimed for work in theatre, opera, film and TV but wanted to be thought of as a poet above all

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Spare a thought for right-royal victim Duchess Fergie – it’s been another truly hellacious week | Marina Hyde As more gushing emails emerge, Sarah Ferguson is once again rethinking her ‘supreme’ friendship with the super-rich sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Letters found on eBay cast light on UK families who benefited from slavery Researcher Malik Al Nasir bought historical documents while investigating his family history – and began building an archive

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Hate, hate again, hate better – for Farage, the country needs educating about foreigners | John Crace Was he sure everyone hated legal immigrants as much as he did? Nige knew better because he was Nige

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Just when Keir Starmer thought he’d got Jeffrey Epstein off his plate – look who’s coming to dinner | Marina Hyde After a tough week for Labour, Donald Trump is touching down for a state visit. Let’s hope the PM can stomach it, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Big Questions in Psychiatry: What is reality? CPD eLearning talks to... · Episode

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What could the Cotswolds possibly offer JD Vance? I suggest a swim in one of its rivers | Marina Hyde The VP of a thousand holidays has done Disneyland and skiing in Vermont. Now it’s time to skive off among the worst people Britain has to offer, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Demis Hassabis on our AI future: ‘It’ll be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution – and maybe 10 times faster’ The head of Google’s DeepMind says artificial intelligence could usher in an era of ‘incredible productivity’ and ‘radical abundance’. But who will it benefit? And why does he wish the tech giants had...

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Dame Cleo Laine obituary Celebrated singer with an agile contralto voice who, with her husband John Dankworth, helped bring new audiences to jazz

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