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Though the predictive power of these contests has shrunk of late ...

The locals love them for it ...

Also this week, Russians in Europe, the American penny, workplace romances, syllables ...

It is far too early for statistical models to fully grasp voting behaviour ...

Alawites close to the former Assad regime are increasingly unhappy ...

Diplomats at the trough in Brussels ...

The government is determined to suppress protest ...

As Donald Trump revives the Monroe Doctrine, he is bewildering America's neighbours about what it stands for ...

The president has cribbed a signature policy from an unlikely source ...

His work has appeared in the pages of Vogue and on the walls of the V&A ...