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Recent discoveries in space and Earth sciences have provided encouragement to searchers for distant civilisations
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Editorial: Hundreds of thousands of civilians are fleeing a renewed assault by the Syrian regime, in desperate circumstances. Is anyone paying attention?
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Editorial: It was billed as a low-key and traditional ministerial shakeout. It has turned out to be a defining seizure of power by No 10
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Editorial: Jumps in the numbers of female and child homicide victims should galvanise efforts to tackle domestic and sexual violence
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Editorial: The UK and EU have very different concepts about what a deal means. The risk is that they could easily end up with nothing
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Editorial: The prime minister acts as if judges were on the losing side of a culture war. This is a mistake for which democracy may pay a very heavy price.
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Editorial: The flaw at the heart of the prime minister’s policies is that Britain’s unequal economy is a product of Conservative thinking which remains fundamentally unchanged
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Editorial: The widening gap between richer and poorer pupils is an indictment of changes spearheaded by Michael Gove
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Editorial: That only 36 people have received payments is unacceptable when so many suffered so much for so long
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Editorial: When psychologists warn that global heating could cause trauma to become normalised, world leaders should take notice
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Editorial: The prime minister said the NHS would be funded by the savings made from leaving the EU. When this becomes palpably false, he can blame no one but himself
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Editorial: Sinn Féin’s surge leaves the republic with a political outcome that will struggle to respond to the public mood
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Editorial: The scandal over Derek Mackay’s conduct is only one of the challenges facing the party and its opponents, despite the opportunity afforded by Brexit
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Editorial: The human and economic cost of the outbreak which began in China is great, but the most extreme response may not be the best
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Editorial: It was already evident that Republicans would not hold the president accountable. Now it is up to Democrats, and the electorate
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Editorial: Tory ministers should stop implying that action against terrorism means turning against European human rights laws
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Editorial: HS2 is well behind schedule and over budget. It can only work as part of an integrated transport plan designed to cut carbon
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Editorial: National treasures don’t come cheap, so let’s get real
The Guardian view on apprenticeships: failing the young