Since Gavin Long, the man who killed three police officers in Baton Rouge, was black there were immediate attempts to link him to the Black Lives Matter movement, despite the fact he claimed to act alone
As someone who is not so much on the housing ladder as standing directly underneath the scaffolding while thousands of well-heeled pensioners periodically dump buckets of their own sewage onto my head, there's only so hard I can laugh when I hear gags about the three Brexiteers squeezing a bunk-bed into a mansion
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A woman called Mary Mendoza took the podium to describe with real anguish how her son, a police officer, was killed by a man who was not only high and drunk, but, more to the point apparently, was in the US illegally. But she concluded: 'A vote for Hillary is putting all our children's lives at risk. It's time for Donald Trump'
Britain needs to invest, and "to build the education, skills, and social mobility to allow everyone to prosper from the opportunities of leaving the EU", as she put it. Her instincts in that regard are sound. What is much more difficult to discern is how Mr Hammond will be able to fund all that
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There is no doubt about it: 'Brexit means Brexit' means pain – but the long-term picture is much brighter
The controversy will likely soon be overtaken – by another
The IOC is considering taking further action against Russia after the McLaren report was published on Monday
Donald Jnr and daughter Ivanka could decide to show their love for Game of Thrones by starting a family together and the odds still wouldn't shift in Hillary Clinton's favour
The Prime Minister's ambitious social mobility agenda is welcome, but how can she insulate the struggling families she prioritises against Brexit's economic chill?
To point out that young people have the luxuries of Snapchat and Ryanair does not address the sense of something being missing for this unlucky generation
From Europe to China, economic measures to boost growth are failing – but the Bank of Japan is searching for answers between the pages of the children's fantasy 'Peter Pan'
We all want and need a strong and a critical media, a watchdog of the powers that be, but maybe we do not need an attack dog that kills off anyone who challenges the status quo and dares to suggest we need a different kind of politics
What disqualifies Fatima Manji from expressing our fears and sorrow? And having criticised Fatima Manji, why didn't MacKenzie make similar comments about white Christian journalists anchoring and reporting after the attacks by Anders Brevik?
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Russia now faces the possibility of a blanket ban from the Rio Olympics after the McLaren Report
A new Prime Minister's first statement to the house still counts as a quiet day in these rarefied times. And as she quietly assured her peers that, yes, she would be happy to kill hundreds of thousands of people, the old Prime Minister up on the back benches offered little more than a half-interested blink.
The former mayor of London didn't apologise for comparing the EU's ambitions to those of Adolf Hitler