Morning Call: Nigel's absent victory

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The Reform leader didn’t turn up to his own by-election, Anoosh Chakelian reports

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America’s premier political poet has moved beyond didacticism and towards a conciliatory understanding of belonging

Once again – this time in Thetford – asylum seekers have become a locus for violence

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