|   | Who can prevail on Putin now war in Ukraine has started? Peace depends on it | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    China
                                                
                                            
                                                                                    
                                                
                                                    Russia
                                                
                                            
                                                                                    
                                                
                                                    Ukraine
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | Britain should stay well out of Russia’s border dispute with Ukraine | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    Russia
                                                
                                            
                                                                                    
                                                
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                                                    Ukraine
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | Johnson’s imperial bombast could suck Britain into more deadly interventions | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    China
                                                
                                            
                                                                                    
                                                
                                                    Russia
                                                
                                            
                                                                                    
                                                
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                                |   | Johnson insulting France over Channel crossings will only make things worse | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    France
                                                
                                            
                                                                                    
                                                
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                                |   | Give the Parthenon marbles back to Greece – tech advances mean there are no more excuses | Simo...
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    Greece
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | Boris Johnson’s military alliance in the Pacific is reckless post-imperial nostalgia | Simon Je...
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    China
                                                
                                            
                                                                                    
                                                
                                                    France
                                                
                                            
                                                                                    
                                                
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                                |   | Boris Johnson’s biggest lie about Europe is finally coming home to roost | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                                                    
                                    
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                                |   | The west’s nation-building fantasy is to blame for the mess in Afghanistan | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    UK
                                                
                                            
                                                                                    
                                                
                                                    Afghanistan
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | It has taken 20 years to prove the invasion of Afghanistan was totally unnecessary | Simon Jenk...
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    Afghanistan
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | Getting on the right track with HS2 benefits | Letters
                                    
                                                                                                                                                    
                                    
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                                |   | Simon Jenkins is wrong about the NHS infected blood inquiry | Letters
                                    
                                                                                                                                                    
                                    
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                                |   | Sanctions are imposed by the sanctimonious, and achieve nothing | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    Belarus
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | This portrayal of policing as casually corrupt is an insult to serving officers | Letter
                                    
                                                                                                                                                    
                                    
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                                |   | Plaid Cymru has a mountain to climb, but Welsh independence is no pipe dream | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    Ireland
                                                
                                            
                                                                                    
                                                
                                                    Cymru
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | What did 20 years of western intervention in Afghanistan achieve? Ruination | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    UK
                                                
                                            
                                                                                    
                                                
                                                    Afghanistan
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
                                                                                4yrs |  | 
                                                                                
                                |   | Boris Johnson’s bluster is meeting the complex reality of Northern Irish politics | Simon Jenki...
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    Ireland
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | Scottish independence isn't going away. Will the Tories be its curators – or victims? | Simon J...
                                    
                                                                                                                                                    
                                    
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                                |   | The government must pay the farmers and fishers struggling with its bad Brexit deal | Simon Jen...
                                    
                                                                                                                                                    
                                    
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                                |   | ‘Getting tough' on China makes headlines, but abroad nobody cares what Johnson says | Simon Jen...
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    China
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | Boris Johnson would only have himself to blame for a no-deal Brexit | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    UK
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | Trump has tested the limits of the US constitution – but it's still holding | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
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                                |   | Boris Johnson has to stop playing games and agree a deal with Europe | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
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                                |   | The Iraq war is finally getting some proper scrutiny – from a TV programme | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                                                    
                                    
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                                |   | The Tories’ latest Brexit plans expose frictionless trade as a fiction
                                    
                                                                                                                                                    
                                    
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                                |   | Britain can't protect Hong Kong from China – but it can do right by its people | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    China
                                                
                                            
                                                                                    
                                                
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                                |   | As Europe emerges from lockdown, the question hangs: was Sweden right? | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    Sweden
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | Britain’s approach to security and war needs a radical rethink | Letters
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
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                                |   | The US and Britain face no existential threat. So why do their wars go on? | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
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                                |   | If Johnson adds a customs union, remainers should finally accept his deal | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                                                    
                                    
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                                |   | Trump is right to take troops out of Syria. Now they must leave Iraq and Afghanistan | Simon Je...
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
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                                                    Syria
                                                
                                            
                                                                                    
                                                
                                                    Iraq
                                                
                                            
                                                                                    
                                                
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                                |   | Boris Johnson has to deliver a Brexit deal. And now he may be on track to do it | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                                                    
                                    
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                                |   | The London arms fair is an inexcusable disgrace – it’s a stain on the nation | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                                                    
                                    
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                                |   | Brexit, the backstop and the will of the people of Northern Ireland | Letters
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    Ireland
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | Boris Johnson should call the DUP’s bluff and create a border in the Irish Sea | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    Ireland
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | The prime minister has a bust of his Greek hero in No 10. But Boris Johnson is no Pericles | Si...
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
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                                |   | The sea captain facing jail after saving the lives of refugees – podcast
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
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                                                    Italy
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | On Hong Kong, Jeremy Hunt still thinks Britain rules the waves. He’s wrong | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
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                                |   | Selective memory and the D-day anniversary | Letters
                                    
                                                                                                                                                    
                                    
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                                |   | The wrangling to become Tory leader is turning Britain into an oligarchy | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    UK
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | The EU election changes nothing. May’s deal is still the only way forward | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                                                    
                                    
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                                |   | Friday briefing: Push for meat-free day at schools
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    Iran
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | Venezuela’s dead revolution shows the limitations of the crowd | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
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                                |   | Nicolás Maduro must be praying for the US to intervene in Venezuela | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
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                                                    Venezuela
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | Donald Trump has a point – the world should start solving its own problems | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
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                                                    Syria
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | France’s political crises are always played out in riots – unlike Britain’s | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    France
                                                
                                            
                                                                                    
                                                
                                                    UK
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | Brexit PREDICTION: Political commentator 'knows EXACTLY where Brexit will end up'
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    Norway
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
                                                                                6yrs |  | 
                                                                                
                                |   | Our warring MPs should realise all Brexit roads lead to Norway | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    Norway
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | Zip wire for the Lake District hits a snag | Letters
                                    
                                                                                                                                                    
                                    
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                                |   | Should museum artefacts be returned to the countries they came from? | Letters
                                    
                                                                                                                                                    
                                    
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                                |   | Forget Brexit, war in Ukraine is the biggest threat to Europe | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    Ukraine
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | Give the Easter Islanders their statue back – it doesn’t belong in the British Museum | Simon J...
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
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                                |   | Britain will go back into the European club. History proves it | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
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                                |   | May’s Brexiter anarchists are deserting her – but they don’t have a plan | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                                                    
                                    
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                                |   | Trump’s sanctions against Iran help the US’s enemies and weaken its friends| Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    US
                                                
                                            
                                                                                    
                                                
                                                    Iran
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | Fear and anger won the election in Brazil. It could happen here too | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    Brazil
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | Sajid Javid’s immigration proposal exposes the insanity of Brexit | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
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                                |   | Economic justice is the very bedrock of Christian faith | Letters
                                    
                                                                                                                                                    
                                    
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                                |   | From Sweden to Brexit, immigration is the issue dividing Europe | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    Sweden
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | Britain’s reaction to the Salisbury poisonings plays into Putin’s hands | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
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                                |   | HS2 and the continuing north-south divide | Letters
                                    
                                                                                                                                                    
                                    
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                                |   | Is execution Britain’s new populist ruse? | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
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                                |   | Trump’s tweet to Iran cannot bully the west away from making peace | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    Iran
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | Don’t worry, a no-deal Brexit won’t be allowed to happen | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    UK
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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                                |   | Blame liberal democracy’s flaws for Erdoğan’s win, not the voters | Simon Jenkins
                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                    Turkey
                                                
                                            
                                                                                                                
                                    
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