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Will the Trump-supporting UK right share in his ignominy? No, it’s too dishonest for that | Polly Toynbee

Sustained not by public opinion but by billionaire media owners, British rightwing commentators will embrace a Maga successor, not moderation Hallelujahs and hosannas have been echoing around the democratic world over the last few weeks. The White House madman is a loser. Rejoice at Serbia, Hungary, Brazil and hold our breath for Israel. Take heart from our best historians’ encouragements. Margaret MacMillan wrote in the Observer: “And now we can hope these elections will bring an end to cruelty, naked greed, contempt for decency, and the relentless vulgarity that tries to pass for boldness an

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Entertainment

A flaccid roam through Bloomsbury’s desperately mediocre modernists: Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant review

Tate Britain, London Trying to present these two as pioneers of British art is fruitless: their lives, sexualities and the Picasso and Cézanne paintings in their home were more exciting than what’s here The Bloomsbury Group once induced yawns as the smug epitome of a snobbish high culture but they’re now admired for their feminism and queer abandon. There’s a West End play about the loves of the Bloomsbury economist John Maynard Keynes and if you visit the National Trust’s Sissinghurst, its flowerbeds are set alight by Vita Sackville-West’s affair with Virginia Woolf. But biography can’t set a

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Finance

Britons stockpiling water and food tins but not panic buying, figures show

Shoppers appear to have taken government’s Be Ready campaign seriously, retail analysts say Business live – latest updates British shoppers have been stocking up on essentials such as bottled water, tinned goods and hand sanitiser, but did not panic buy after the government advised people to prepare for emergencies, shopping data has shown. Sales of essentials jumped in the 10 days after the government launched its Be Ready campaign, which encourages households to prepare for up to three days in the event of disruption to essential services from incidents such as cyber-attacks or extreme weath

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Crypto

Bitcoin Price Could Avoid New Lows As Analyst Points To Historical Pattern

Bitcoin price has come under renewed pressure following its latest market decline, but one prominent analyst believes historical data offers a reason for cautious optimism. Galaxy’s head of firmwide research, Alex Thorn, has identified a technical pattern that previously appeared during two major Bitcoin market recoveries, suggesting the cryptocurrency could avoid establishing fresh bear-market lows. […]

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