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• Ben Jennings on festive spirit in Westminster – cartoon

  25-12-2018 19:59
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• What 2018 told us about Brexit

  25-12-2018 18:00 via ft.com
  Delay is likely, Eurosceptics’ power is limited and the backstop is still the big issue
  
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• 'Special relationship': how a century of US presidential visits tells the temperature

  25-12-2018 18:00
  What warmth of British welcomes, from masses feting Wilson on the Mall to seething protests for Trump, indicatesTens of thousands crammed central London’s streets. The roar of cheers was as deafening as the flypast. “We want Wilson,” chanted the crowd, packed tightly beneath a “brilliant mass of flags” stretching from Charing Cross to Buckingham Palace, the Guardian reported at the time.In 100 years of US presidential visits, since Woodrow Wilson became the first Ov
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn visits homeless centre amid growing concern over crisis

  25-12-2018 16:44
  Labour leader’s private visit to Crisis centre emerges after minister acknowledges Tory policies may be to blame Jeremy Corbyn has paid an unannounced visit to a centre for homeless people in London run by the charity Crisis, where he helped to entertain rough sleepers amid growing concern about the scale of the problem in the UK.The Labour leader was not accompanied by any reporters or photographers for the visit, which took place on Sunday, with the visit only becoming public after photo
  
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• How can we break the Brexit deadlock? Ask ancient Athens | James Bridle

  25-12-2018 15:00
  Citizens’ assemblies have their roots in sortition – selecting citizens at random to fill public posts – which was once central to democracyIn the central marketplace of ancient Athens, around 350BC, there stood a machine called the kleroterion. This was a six-foot-high slab of stone that had a series of slots on the front, and a long tube bored down from the top to the base. Those up for selection for the various offices of state would insert metal ID tags, called pinakia, int
  
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• The Guardian view on the state of the union | Editorial

  25-12-2018 13:00
  The world in 2019: The vexed politics of our times has obscured the view ahead. Over the holidays we will examine some big issues on the horizon. Today we look at the relationships between the UK’s family of nationsTheresa May’s premiership has gone through many phases. It has also gone through many phrases. Mrs May is famously wedded to her unchanging verbal formulas. She subjects them to merciless repetition. They become extremely familiar. We may wish it otherwise, but few can for
  
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• Brexit has made the UK a global joke. How will we rebuild our reputation? | John Kampfner

  25-12-2018 13:00
  Britain used to be a talent magnet; now it’s a laughing stock. Prepare for us once again to be the ‘sick man of Europe’You know you’ve hit rock bottom when the Germans mock you on primetime TV and the jokes are actually quite funny. Giving Britons this year’s “golden dumbass” prize, Oliver Welke, the German equivalent of Dara Ó Briain, describes how Theresa May “can’t get out of the EU and can’t even get out of her bloody car&rdq
  
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• Labour MP urges care firm to scrap charge for workers who call in sick

  25-12-2018 10:00
  Shadow health secretary says Newcross Healthcare must axe £50 fines for staff immediatelyA care company exposed by the Guardian for fining staff £50 when they phone in sick should scrap the “absolutely disgusting” charge immediately, the shadow health secretary has said.The intervention by Jonathan Ashworth came after an investigation revealed Newcross Healthcare Solutions, which made millions of pounds in profit last year, was imposing the charge on workers who called to
  
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