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“The victory needed to be big,” said Martin Farr on The Conversation, and it was. In the contest dubbed “Makerfield or Breakerfield”, Andy Burnham last week comfortably prevailed. Governing parties rarely win by-elections, and...
“With all the attention concentrated on Makerfield”, it was easy to forget that two other by-elections were taking place last Thursday, both in Scotland, said Stephen Daisley in The Spectator. The SNP comfortably retained Arbroath and...
At the Enhanced Games in Las Vegas, competitors can take whatever US-approved substances they like – and are paid $1m if they break a world record. Some say it’s a more honest approach to sporting competition, but Ellen Cushing remains...
In the run-up to the referendum on 23 June 2016, Boris Johnson, the face of the Leave campaign, claimed that departing from the European Union would not just give Britain back its national sovereignty, but make it more dynamic, and richer. “We...
