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The US senator battling the CIA over the ‘war on terror’. By Geoff Dyer and Richard McGregor

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A small group in the executive is holding the country to ransom
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UK chancellor will have to balance his austere instincts against political pressure to ‘do something’
– Samuel Brittan
Tech titans with better data and engineers will disrupt Wall Street
– Evgeny Morozov

Protect the open web and the digital age

Much will be lost if fences are put up around our digital open plans, says Richard Waters

Miliband at last shows leadership

The Labour leader’s EU referendum intervention blends statecraft with self-interest

Comedy could cost Obama dear

The president’s performance was not as clever as Justin Bieber’s on ‘Between Two Ferns’

At a multiplex near you: men, men, men

When it comes to the gender issue, film mirrors the world beyond the screen, writes Jan Dalley

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Honey, I shrunk the vampire squid

Wall Street and the City are smaller contributers to economic output than is generally assumed

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The lost art of finance

‘Back in the days when “money” meant sacks of gold coins, artists had something tangible to paint’

The racial clouds that hang over DC

Recent events serve as a reminder that the bad old days in Washington’s civic politics stick around

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Pioneer of the Pill and biotech business

Alejandro Zaffaroni, life scientist and entrepreneur, 1923-2014

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Decoupling effect as developed world markets ignore price fall

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