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Aakar Patel | What India will we leave for future generations? Some thoughts on I-Day
The people are useful for the State as they give it legitimacy, but they are also seen as a nuisance that gets in the way of government
Farrukh Dhondy | Why democracy often turns ugly: Prejudice & hate as Batley votes
The byelection for a Member of Parliament in the Yorkshire constituency of Batley was a paradigm of this ugliness
Britain cannot ‘photoshop’ its cultural landscape: Johnson
Britain's PM Boris Johnson defends Churchill, criticises 'distortion of our history'
Authorities remove slave trader statue in London
Statues glorifying slave traders and colonialists have come into sharp focus in recent days inspired by the Black Lives Matter protests
UK protesters take down slave trader’s statue, dump it in harbour
Protesters also defaced statue of former British PM Winston Churchill, crossing out his last name and painting 'was a racist' underneath
In the age of post-truths, what colour is your favourite lie?
The thing is, this all gets messy remarkably quickly, because of the sheer variety of ways there are of being wrong.
Solid gold toilet, once offered to Donald Trump, stolen from London palace
The toilet, valued at roughly 1 million pounds (USD 1.25 million), was the work of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.