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As the singer-songwriter tours his early material, it's starting to sound like prophecy

The BSE crisis - and Europe’s response - set in train many of the arguments that resurfaced in the referendum 20 years later

When the would-be next PM squared up to the sexist plumber in a Makerfield by-election special, there was only going to be one winner

It's petrifying, but I’m one of the three-quarters of UK workers who aren't on course for a "moderate pension income"

The paper claimed that 'Project Fear' was pure propaganda - but the economic facts show it was all too real

After the 2008 crash, it took a global effort to get the world economy back on track. But if another disaster did occur, with Trump in power, cooperation would be much harder

Claims that Henry Nowak’s death shows police are guilty of “institutional racism” against whites are a manipulative reversal straight from the US far right playbook

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He won’t condemn rioters, but will condemn host Matt Chorley’s misplaced word

The violent chaos in Southampton, sparked by the murder of Henry Nowak, was all over social media. That’s because most of the rioters were hoping for one thing above all – to make money out of it

The police made a terrible mistake with Henry Nowak. But deliberately stoking racial tensions for personal advantage is despicable

Once derided as a ‘singing budgie’, the actor turned pop megastar has redefined what it means to be Australian, and made Britain happier too

Frank Furedi’s wearying In Defence of Populism reveals it offers no coherent and workable policy agenda and relies on authoritarian ‘solutions’

The traitor was driven by Marxist beliefs, a snobbish desire for dominance – but also a deadly naivety

Angélique Kidjo takes back the African sounds borrowed by western artists – and makes better records from them

Jared Isaacman’s bid to restore Pluto’s planetary status looks less like science and more like populism in space

The cartoonish villain who turned to cocaine was once an Olympic-calibre wrestler who helped US athletes win gold

Its name comes from an indigenous North American language that requires a trick of the throat

You’ve just purchased a new electric vehicle? Congratulations – you are now the proud owner of a surveillance machine on wheels, in which all the sensors are pointing directly at you

The Intelligence and Security Committee demanded a full inquiry into Russian meddling in British politics. It never happened. A new report makes clear that it needs to happen – now

Infantilised by a political class that thinks we’re thick, voters are encouraged to engage their emotions instead of studying facts. That’s dangerous

Online spaces are being colonised by those hoping to profit from the lack of information and help available in women’s healthcare

As Iceland, Switzerland and Alberta go to the polls, all have one warning ringing in their ears: Brexit

The Pope’s encyclical on the dangers of technology looks back to the last industrial revolution, and delivers a stark warning to the technology corporations of today – that transformative progress can destroy lives on a colossal scale

Relatable but unadventurous – and why has he snubbed artists from Liverpool?

Party faces new questions over the alleged Russian cyberattack it claims sparked the £5m Harborne donation scandal

The campaigns for justice and dignity all ended in slaughter. Now members of the Iranian diaspora are marching with Tommy Robinson in London

He is trying to absorb the Taiwanese computer chip industry into the US economy. If he does, it would give America one less reason to defend the island against China

The former PM’s latest intervention on Labour’s direction is flawed - and compromised by the millions he has taken from AI’s backers

The screen legend had 49 homes in her 36 years, and took her collection of 400 books wherever she moved

A new exhibition puts the wartime prime minister’s work on show for the first time in 50 years

The monster movie stood out at a festival full of three-star films