On Sunday 8 December, the second round of the Romanian presidential election should have taken place, with a far-right populist poised for victory and the West braced for a loyal NATO ally to realign itself with Russia. Instead, the election was annulled by the Constitutional Court. The unprecedented decision has...
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Warwick has pledged to “lead by example” in the field of research and innovation, as part of an environmental concordat whose signatories include the University of Cambridge and the University of St Andrews. The University announced in a press release that it had “joined over 35 institutions” as a signatory...
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Understandably, you might wonder what relevance a Japanese poet from the 1600s still has today, or why we should read centuries-old haiku when Anglophone writers like Chaucer or Shakespeare are often hard enough to understand. Matsuo Bashō’s Japan was feudal and deeply isolationist, while we live in an age of...
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The public’s trust in mass media is now at a record low, with only 31% of Americans having a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in its accuracy and fairness. Polls in Britain paint a similar picture: just 36% of adults mostly trust the news. But should this really...
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The Portuguese government has announced a decade-long plan to reduce the tax burden for young people, intended to discourage high levels of emigration. People aged 35 and under, including foreigners, who earn below €28,000 would pay no income tax in the first year of the scheme, with rates rising to...
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The number of extremism cases in higher education escalated to senior staff has increased by half in two years, new figures have shown. The Prevent programme, part of the UK Government’s counter-terrorism strategy, recorded a rise to 210 escalated cases of student extremism in 2022-23, up from 139 cases in...
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