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Talks begin with liberal leader warning people not to be fooled by Wilders’ ‘Mother Teresa’ act

Online anti-vaxxers, conflating Covid and MMR theories, are convincing parents against immunising their children

Edelman’s trust barometer is “quoted everywhere as if this is some credible, objective research from a thinktank, whereas there is a fairly obvious commercial background, and it’s fairly obviously a sales tool,”

Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, who wrote under the name AS Byatt, authored complex and critically acclaimed novels, including the Booker prize-winning Possession and her examination of artistic creation, The Children’s Book. Over her career, she won a swathe of literary awards, from the Booker to a Chevalier of France’s Order of...

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A jury has found the former head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police intelligence unit guilty of leaking state secrets, the first time a Canadian has been convicted under the country’s Security of Information Act....

Financial assets known as bona vacantia, owned by people who died without a will or known next of kin, are collected by the duchy. Over the last 10 years, it has collected more than £60m in the funds. It has long claimed that, after deducting costs, bona vacantia revenues are donated to charities....

The PVV is predicted to win 35 out of 151 seats, followed by GL-PvdA (left progressive) at 25, previous ruling party VVD (right) at 24 and newcomer NSC (centre conservative) at 20.