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From Hartlepool to the hangman: the flag-wavers now running the Tory Party could take Britain back to the gallows
Eventually the new nationalists will need a new populist cause: a referendum on the death penalty is becoming a frightening possibility
By Chris Mullin  
The philosophy underpinning how money works
 Ben Chu  
When no one makes the law
 David Allen Green  
Ursula von der Leyen: Europe’s second-rate first lady
 Andrew Adonis  
Do it like Denmark
 Tom Clark & Clive Cowdery  
Replotting the human: the thorny ethics of growing babies outside the womb
 Philip Ball  
Michael Lewis on how to spot a crisis coming
 Jay Elwes  
Two minutes to midnight: how humanity copes with disaster
 Peter Frankopan  
Rachel Cusk’s imitation game
 Miranda France  

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