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What I learned by avoiding England and the Euros

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 11: England fans congregate prior to the UEFA Euro 2020 Championship Final b

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Will Self

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Will Self went walking around London... and noticed something interesting about his fellow football sceptics
A city at play... Berliners flock to the river for a swimming event in the heart of the city in 1928

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Billy Wilder and his early European career

Charlie Connelly

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Podcast: Football, politics and the rise of sado-populism

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Gina Beck as Nellie and Keir Charles as Luther Billis in Chichester Festival Theatre’s South Pacific

Theatre | Opinion

A very nearly enchanted evening

Tim Walker

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Thomas Gottschalk (Gastgeber), Musik-Gruppe "Kaoma", ZDF-Live-Show "Wetten, dass; ?", Oldenburg, Wes

Music | Opinion

Has Covid killed off the cheesy Euro summer holiday hit?

Sophia Deboick

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A hill in Darlington, where the Treasury is opening a new site

Boris Johnson | Interview

Could southern discomfort sink a rebalancing agenda still in its infancy?

Suna Erdem

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Anti-vaccine protestor Piers Corbyn speaks through a megaphone outside Centre Court on Wimbledon's Men's Finals Day

Freedom Day | Opinion

My favourite new Freedom is avoiding selfish anti-maskers

Mitch Benn

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Guards at stand at the Brandenburg Gate, as the Berlin Wall goes up behind them, in August 1961

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An eyewitness to history: Watching the Berlin Wall go up

John Kampfner

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A Palestinian sanitary department worker sprays disinfectant along a security border in Bethlehem, during the pandemic

Language | Opinion

Bethlehem to Bedlam: What links bywords for peace and mayhem

Peter Trudgill

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Moona Lisa by Nick Walker, from Vanguard 2021

Arts & Culture | Review

The new exhibition that shows Bristol's pioneering place in street art

Polly Allen

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Argentina players throw Lionel Messi in the air after beating Brazil in the Copa America final

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How long can Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi play on?

Rob Hughes

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LOUGHBOROUGH, ENGLAND - JUNE 05: GB Open Water Swimmer Alice Dearing poses for a portrait at her hom

Olympics | Opinion

30 Europeans to watch at the Olympics

Ryan Herman

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New Netflix show Workin' Moms

Arts & Culture | Review

Workin' Moms: Netflix show stuck in a tedious territory

Megan Nolan

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A woman wearing a face mask as a precaution against the spread of Covid-19 walks past a graffiti tribute to NHS

NHS | Opinion

Our NHS is priceless... that's why US big pharma wants a piece of it

Bonnie Greer

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Protestors against Section 28, during an LGBT Pride event in London, in July 1998

Conservative Party | Opinion

The Tories have already lost the culture wars

John McTernan

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Migrants on a small boat in the waters off Cap Blanc-Nez heading to Britain

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What IS the liberal response to the migrant crisis?

James Ball

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, on coronavirus

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Has something shifted in sado-populist Britain?

Alastair Campbell

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Our NHS is priceless... that's why US big pharma wants a piece of it

A woman wearing a face mask as a precaution against the spread of Covid-19 walks past a graffiti tribute to NHS

Bonnie Greer

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Bonnie Greer explains why the data held by the NHS makes it so attractive to US big pharma - and why Boris Johnson could use it for leverage in a trade deal
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Cost of Brexit is already 38 times more than the money set aside for...

Steve Anglesey

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Staff of the News of the World Editor hold up copies of the last ever edition of the paper

What happened to Britain's ruthless tabloids?

Liz Gerard

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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 15, 2021: Secretary of State for International Trade and President of

Liz Truss caught out over untrue Brexit claims over apples and trade

Steve Anglesey

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Loyalist band members and supporters make their way through Newtownards town centre following an anti-Protocol protest rally

Why Northern Ireland may learn to love the Protocol

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Brexit | Opinion

Cost of Brexit is already 38 times more than the money set aside for...

Steve Anglesey

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Boris Johnson | Opinion

Don't judge those making the most of their new-found freedom

Ian Dunt

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Cardinals and Bishops attend a Pope's Pentecost mass on May 23, 2021 at St. Peter's Basilica in The

Fake cardinals get busted by fake priests

Steve Anglesey

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Nina Hamnett, pictured in c1945

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Nina Hamnett: the Queen of Bohemia

Claudia Pritchard

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Great European Lives With Charlie Connelly: a new podcast from The New...

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Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan (question eight) Credit: Newscom/Cover Images

Erdoğan hits back at EU court's headscarf ban

Eleanor Longman-Rood

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Daniel Lapaine, Tony Jayawardena, Sid Sagar and Scott Karim in The Invisible Hand at the Kiln Theatre

Theatre | Review

The show that competed with England

Tim Walker

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Michael Ball as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray

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The most fun you will find on the London stage right now

Tim Walker

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Moona Lisa by Nick Walker, from Vanguard 2021

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The new exhibition that shows Bristol's pioneering place in street art

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Matt Hancock as he listens to Prime Minister Boris Johnson (right) during a cabinet meeting

Boris Johnson | Opinion

Telling the truth is now the only sackable offence

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, on coronavirus

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Has something shifted in sado-populist Britain?

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What IS the liberal response to the migrant crisis?

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