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Oliver Carroll Virus laws play into the hands of Russian autocracy

Moscow is the master of the secret state and Covid-19 is giving it free rein once more

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Mick O’Hare How to tell the difference between fake news and science

‘The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it’ – Mick O’Hare tries to sift through the urban myths flooding the digital plane  

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Enis Yucekoralp It’s time we made ‘rewilding’ second nature for environmental policy
Enis Yucekoralp
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Nafeez Ahmed How coronavirus can be stopped in eight weeks
Nafeez Ahmed
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Patrick Cockburn Henry II was lucky when it came to getting away with murder
Patrick Cockburn
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Steven Cutts How to make a Hollywood film with just the phone in your pocket
Steven Cutts
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Bel Trew How can you self-isolate when your home is being demolished?
Bel Trew
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Mick O’Hare How to journey to the centre of the Earth
Mick O’Hare
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Mary Dejevsky How much longer must Cuba wait for change?
Mary Dejevsky
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Kim Sengupta Is coronavirus a roadmap to biological warfare?
Kim Sengupta
Coronavirus
Robert Fisk How the language of coronavirus is trivialising the crisis
Robert Fisk
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Emily Goddard Dying on the inside: Britain’s ageing prisoner problem
Emily Goddard
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Jon Bloomfield

The Birmingham mosque fighting back against violent crime

From producing an award-winning documentary to using Friday prayers to address the issue of knife crime, one mosque is setting the standard for how communities can take a stand. Jon Bloomfield reports

Science and Technology
How people from the Middle Ages dealt with self-isolation
Lifestyle
People are stockpiling drugs just as much as toilet paper
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How Florence Nightingale spent her time in self-isolation
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How the Sharpeville massacre changed the United Nations
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Emily Goddard ‘I feel safer in China’: The international students fleeing the UK
Emily Goddard
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‘We will starve here’: India’s poor are fleeing the cities
Health and Wellbeing
Twelve productive things to do while in lockdown
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Creating green corridors to protect Wyoming’s wildlife from extinction
Health and Wellbeing
The real reason behind hand sanitiser panic buying
Americas
Coronavirus: US hospitals consider blanket ‘do not resuscitate’ order
Health and Wellbeing
The coronavirus has revealed the UK food system’s weakness
Americas
Coronavirus lockdown sees unexpected revival of US drive-in theatres
Women

The women who refused to blow themselves up for Boko Haram

Health and Wellbeing

How to avoid burnout while working from home

Women

Pandemic poverty could spell disaster for single parents

Americas
CPAC under fire for coronavirus response that exposed thousands
Food and Drink
The people who are really asked ‘what will your last meal be?’
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Andy Martin Fear and paranoia spreading faster than the virus
Andy Martin
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John Rentoul Pipe dream: Keir Starmer, the new Harold Wilson of the Labour Party
John Rentoul
Science and Technology
Facebook to provide portal for coronavirus information
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James Moore Why Britain needs no-interest loans for low-earners
James Moore
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Borzou Daragahi Istanbul’s new mayor will save democracy from the authoritarian right
Borzou Daragahi
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Ahmed Twaij Coronavirus and America’s urgent need for universal healthcare
Ahmed Twaij
News

Amazon sells out of essential items amid coronavirus panic buying

Covid-19 outbreak prompts panic buying 

Science and Technology

Can death ever bring euphoria?

People suggest that there may be an endorphin rush just before someone dies. But we just don’t know, admits Seamus Coyle, as nobody has yet explored this possibility

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Rose Stokes Has cancel culture gone too far?
Rose Stokes
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How quickly could Iran build a nuclear bomb?
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Zoe Ettinger Do political cartoons speak louder than words?
Zoe Ettinger
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Carl Cederström Can living without sex be fulfilling?
Carl Cederström
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Gary Nunn My parents have weeks to live – can I forgive them for disowning me?
Gary Nunn
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David Barnett Does Friday 13th fill you with fear or is it just another day?
David Barnett
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Mick O’Hare Shaken or stirred? A true aficionado knows the difference
Mick O’Hare
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Arjun Neil Alim Could the ‘end of history’ hold answers for the future?
Arjun Neil Alim
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Alia Shoaib The troubled history of Pakistan’s blasphemy law
Alia Shoaib
Health and Wellbeing
Close encounters: Are we getting enough hugs?
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Harriet Marsden Sting, Shakti and sex: The show changing our understanding of tantra
Harriet Marsden
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Olivia Campbell The short and salacious story of Aubrey Beardsley
Olivia Campbell
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Richard Askwith How a woman defied the Nazis in the world’s most dangerous race
Richard Askwith
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Carl Cederström The weirdest seven days of my life in Coronaland
Carl Cederström
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Even at 50, I can’t imagine how I could possibly give up dieting

Science and Technology

The dog that knows the names and categories of its 100 toys

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Stephen Applebaum For South Africa, the past is harder to escape than a prison