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Residents of the Lake District, where Tim Farron's constituency lies, are heavily reliant on tourism for income

We don’t need to choose between between lives and livelihoods

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Can we take the chancellor’s patriotic appeal seriously when the government is spending billions of pounds of taxpayers money each year on procuring goods and services from foreign owned companies?

Chancellor should follow his own advice when it comes to British business

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Joe Biden speaking at a rally at the end of June: Despair remains the greatest obstacle to a Biden presidency

‘Despair’ the greatest obstacle to a Biden presidency

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Amid a crisis exacerbated by underlying inequalities, lodgers face more inequality than most

‘As far as I care, you can sleep in your car’: The Corona tenants

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Labour’s move away from one-slate-takes-all results must be the precursor to backing fair elections at Westminster.

Starmer must commit to ‘real democracy’ at Westminster

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Beaches across the UK were drowning in litter after lockdown restrictions were eased: Covid should provide an opportunity to re-examine consumption and waste

Don’t waste the post-Covid opportunity to build back better

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NHS contact tracing app: the government's approach has not inspired public confidence

Contact tracing app: Where did it all go wrong?

Ireland’s contact tracing app shines a light on where the UK went wrong.

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Home Office opens door to refugee evictions despite covid emergency

Home Office opens door to refugee evictions despite covid emergency

Home Office confirms restart of refugee eviction programme, despite freeze for private and social tenants

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Ministers and senior civil servants in Westminster implicitly assume that they understand the challenges Britain faces better than anyone.

No.10’s arrogance over covid has cost us all dear

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Starmer, Corybn and Long-Bailey. Her sacking is a sign of Starmer's determination to win power (photo: Press Association)

Long-Bailey sacking shows Starmer is serious about winning

*Comment & Analysis

Details at the pub door: Covid is becoming a data feeding frenzy

Details at the pub door: Covid is becoming a data feeding frenzy

*Comment & Analysis

Boris Johnson joins a socially distanced lesson during a visit to Bovingdon Primary School in Hemel Hempstead. The prime minister now has two crises to handle at once.

We can’t fight covid and Brexit at the same time

*Comment & Analysis

No more business-as-usual in asylum policy

No more business-as-usual in asylum policy

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President Trump arrives on stage in Tulsa, Okla.

Swimming with the sharks: What progressives can learn from Republicans Against Trump

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Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald at Leinster House in Dublin, after Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and the Greens finalised the text of a draft programme for government.

Losers’ coalition postpones radical change in Ireland

*Comment & Analysis

When covid meets Black Lives Matter: Diversity can be lifesaving

When Black Lives Matter meets covid: Diversity can be lifesaving

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Lonely vigil: Nelson looks down over London.

Coming to terms with our past

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Special needs children left without support amid covid education chaos

Special needs children left without support amid covid education chaos

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Billboards in Jerusalem placed by Yesha Council, an organisation of municipal councils of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, show Benjamin Netanyahu alongside Donald Trump.

Boris Johnson must stand up against an annexation of the West Bank

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