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Is sentencing a Nazi sympathiser to read Shakespeare an appropriate punishment?
Speed Read Judge seemed to think introducing student ‘to high culture’ would ‘magically make him a better person’ said The Daily Telegraph
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Texas’s abortion law: the Republicans get their way, at last
Speed Read SB8 authorises private citizens to sue anyone who performs, ‘aids or abets’ an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy
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The rise of Isis-K, the Islamist terrorist group with ‘merciless’ tactics
Speed Read Last week it claimed responsibility for the ‘dramatic assault’ on Kabul airport – an attack that killed up to 170 people
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Cristiano Ronaldo’s second coming
Speed Read Last week, Manchester United re-signed the forward on a two-year deal thought to be worth more than £400,000 a week
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‘Turning down her smut setting’: how Nigella Lawson is cleaning up her recipes
Speed Read Last week, the TV cook announced she was axing the word ‘slut’ from her recipe for Slut Red Raspberries in Chardonnay Jelly
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Vaccinating children: it’s decision time for the health secretary as kids return to school
Speed Read Sajid Javid readying NHS England to roll out jab for children over 12, amid fears infections will rocket
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Daniel Craig’s dilemma: the latest ‘public display of virtuous disinheritance’?
Speed Read Last week, the James Bond actor said he does not plan to leave ‘great sums’ of his estimated £116m fortune to his daughters
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Supermarket sweep: investors go ‘wild in the aisles’
Speed Read The excitement around Morrisons is proving ‘contagious’ – is Sainsbury’s next?
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‘Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat’: exploring Israel’s fourth Covid wave
Speed Read Two months ago, face masks were consigned to bins. Now the country is in a ‘unique moment of epidemiological doubt’
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‘Peak wonky wokery’: Tiger Who Came to Tea sparks fierce debate on rape
Speed Read Charity provoked backlash after claiming beloved 1968 book reinforces ‘harmful’ gender stereotypes
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Brexit and Covid threaten Christmas turkeys
Speed Read Supply is predicted to drop by 20% this festive season owing to staff shortages
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Taliban ‘tortured and massacred’ Hazara men
Speed Read Amnesty International says killings prove minorities are at risk from Afghanistan rulers
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BHP: London’s lost bauble
Speed Read Anglo-Australian mining giant is shifting its primary stock-listing to Sydney
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Afghanistan: the looming refugee crisis
Speed Read Exodus has sparked panic among Western leaders
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