The vortex
The nightmare of online debate
When we feud over Donald Trump or Brexit online, it’s easy to believe our in-group is the lone voice of sanity. But our tribalistic clashes send us spiralling deeper into the void
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Trump v the UK
The US president’s foul tweet aims a wrecking ball at Theresa May. It will do untold damage to the ‘special relationship’, writes Martin Kettle
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Susan Sarandon sounds off
‘If Hillary had won, we’d be at war’
Once the bete noire of the right, now the actor finds herself even more hated by the left for refusing to support Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump
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Back to front
The power of a stylish rear-view
How you look from behind is now as important as how you look from the front, as the royal engagement pictures, Roland Mouret and Instagram will attest
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A mystery in Ghana
The true story of the fake US embassy
Last year, the US state department said it had uncovered a fake embassy in Accra that had been issuing a stream of forged visas. The story went viral – but all was not as it seemed
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‘I can’t eat or sleep’
Threatened with deportation after 30 years
Paulette Wilson moved to the UK in 1968, and worked and raised her daughter here. So why was she suddenly taken to Yarl’s Wood detention centre and almost forced on to a plane to Jamaica?
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'What the hell's coriander?'
My class made me feel an outsider
Crossing Britain’s class divisions has never been easy. There are plenty of traps for people who grew up with chips, not coriander, writes Rebecca Nicholson
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São Paulo divided
Inequality ... in a photograph
In 2004, photographer Tuca Vieira captured the image of the Paraisópolis favela next to its wealthy neighbour, Morumbi, that came to symbolise the gap between São Paulo’s rich and poor. He gives us the inside story
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Tamal Ray’s winter warmers
Plantain stew and slow-cooked oxtail
At this time of year what we most need is something warming and filling. There’s no better cut of meat for a stew than oxtail, while a vegetarian broth can pack a punch with plantain
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