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Bad news - From Brexit to Boris Johnson, how the media gets it wrong By Helen Lewis

The hollow Tories - Ferdinand Mount How the conservative mind was captured by anti EU fanatics

Megan Nolan on problem drinking Gavin Jacobson on Hong Kong’s revolt

Quentin Sommerville The Yazidi family reunited after five years in slavery

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John Gray on the human imagination

Will Dunn on Facebook’s twin enemies