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Ten fateful forks in the road to Crimea

Regret suffuses the post mortem on many a conflict, with hindsight recommending alternatives that were far less obvious at the time. Crimea is different. Rarely can the fateful choices — those...

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MH17 blame game reflects badly on all of us

To judge by much of the western media coverage in recent days, you would have thought that Vladimir Putin had spent last Thursday sitting in the Kremlin, plotting how to blacken his image in the West...

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A Lab-Con coalition? It’s not as crazy as you think

In the few days since Conservative defector Douglas Carswell gave Ukip its first Westminster MP and John Bickley scared the pants off Ed Miliband by almost snatching Heywood and Middleton from Labour,...

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Want to understand the conflict in Ukraine? Compare it to Ireland

What seemed this time last year to be a little local difficulty in Ukraine has metastasised to the point where a peace plan drafted in Paris and Berlin may be all that stands in the way of war between...

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The riddle of Theresa May’s Russia policy

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May on the sidelines of the G20 Leaders Summit in Hangzhou on September 4, 2016. / AFP / SPUTNIK / ALEXEI DRUZHININ...

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Ukraine’s President prepares to go out in style

BERLIN, GERMANY - JUNE 05: Recently-elected Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko gives statements to the media together with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (not pictured) prior to talks at the...

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Damian Green’s social care model breaches a sacred tenet of the NHS – and a...

The central proposal in Damian Green’s recent paper on social care is that care provision should be treated like pensions.…

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Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn are both hiding away from voters

Protestors hold signs against Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson as he heads to Glastonbury on the campaign trail in Glastonbury, southwest England on November 14, 2019. (Photo by Frank Augstein /...

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Sir David Attenborough didn’t deserve the Chatham House Prize

Mcc0092647 ©Eddie Mulholland SOLO ROTA Her Majesty The Queen, Patron, will present the Chatham House Prize 2019 to Sir David Attenborough and Julian Hector, Head of the BBC Natural History Unit.

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Brexit day is a gloriously muted occasion

TOPSHOT - A mural by British artist Banksy, depicting a workman chipping away at one of the stars on a European Union (EU) themed flag, is pictured in Dover, south east England on January 7, 2019. -...

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