Comment & debate
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Amid all the seismic shocks in world politics, the universe is throwing in a stunning natural phenomenon this week, with the appearance of the largest ‘supermoon’ to grace our skies in 68 years
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The return of the bittern and common crane to the Norfolk Broads gives reason for optimism
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Click and elect: how fake news helped Donald Trump win a real election
Hannah Jane ParkinsonThe ‘alt-right’ (aka the far right) ensnared the electorate using false stories on social media. But tech companies seem unwilling to admit there’s a problem
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Years of Republican plots, an opponent deified by television, and FBI smears stood in her way – and she still won the popular vote by more than Kennedy did
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Andrew Marr has defended the decision to broadcast an interview with French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Remembrance Sunday
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The idea the corporation is a paragon of public service values is a myth that does it no favours. The left should be more critical
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Brexit meets Trumpism: the malign new force spanning the Atlantic
Matthew d'AnconaDonald Trump’s thumbs-up with Nigel Farage shows these men believe they incarnate ‘change’. God help them both when voters realise the truth -
Europe continues to face serious jihadist terror threats, but together, we have the resources to resist and the strength to win
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Trump’s triumph strikes at the roots of the European project
Natalie NougayrèdeThe psychological and political link with America undermines the liberal values that have sustained the west since the second world war -
The choice of words might have changed, but the views expressed in fading Lancashire mill towns in the late 1960s still resonate today
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The magnetic pull of Trump, King Narcissist
Deborah OrrNever mind the economy, or jobs – consider instead Trump’s personality, and the effect it has on people. Then his victory makes sense -
Trump’s world is too dark – even for Leonard Cohen
Jonathan FreedlandStill, the old poet’s words offer some consolation as we face the prospect that the world we have known is unravelling
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Targets matter – because a day with cancer worries feels like a year
Christina PattersonNew research reveals that more than 130,000 people were not seen or treated when they needed to be. The only solution is a properly funded NHS -
Populists are out to divide us. They must be stopped
Timothy Garton AshThe US is the latest country to be seduced by nationalists. Liberals should brace themselves for a long struggle -
The prince, defending his girlfriend from attack, shows the way but he can’t win this battle alone
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Barack Obama reports having ‘an excellent conversation’ with the president-elect
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Notebook Hillary lost. So drop the inside-out pout
Peter BradshawSince the US election hopeful smiles have inverted into silent sobs of horror, then grins of cynical despair. But the left must do without its evasive mannerisms -
Workers in the US midwest are victims of globalisation in the same way as those in Stoke on Trent
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You’re hired: how The Apprentice led to President Trump
Stuart HeritageThe rise to power of the president-elect was less a campaign than a cash grab for ratings. It was reality TV writ large
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Unlike others, I won’t be sent home, because I don’t look like the next president’s idea of a foreigner
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After a gruelling 18 months on the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump joined millions of Americans to cast their votes
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My online bank gave me a Tesco moment
Tim DowlingWhat blind faith made me think shuffling money around cyberspace would work when £17m can disappear in a cyberattack?
Rust-belt romantics don’t get it: the middle class is being wiped out too