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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (8th May, 2025) Six years ago, Mike Pompeo was serving as secretary of state in Donald Trump&#8217;s first administration when he was woken [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Times (24th August, 2023) There was jubilation in India after it became the fourth country to successfully send a mission to the moon. The joy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (30th December, 2019) Boris Johnson&#160;focused on persecution in his first Christmas message as prime minister, pointing out that for many people around the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (25th July, 2019) When my generation was growing up half a century ago, we were taught the basics of history in terms of heroic British [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by Tortoise (25th July, 2019) Prabu Kasinathan was leaning over a concrete balustrade, gazing at the vastness of Puzhal Lake spread out below in the fierce summer [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (8th July, 2019) The streets were filled with revellers, buildings bedecked in rainbow flags and even Downing Street given a floral makeover with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (15th April, 2019) People went by camel, car, foot, bicycle and tractor when voting started last week in the world’s biggest general election. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (27th November, 2017) ‘The eyes of the world are upon us,’ declared Theresa May in her Florence speech two months ago as she [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (5th March, 2017) Bureaucrats handing out British aid have spent an astonishing £15 million flying themselves around the world and staying in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Sun (13th February, 2015) Another day, another damning report into Britain’s great aid giveaway. It is almost enough to make you feel sorry for the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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