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Kamala Harris Makes the Case That Joe Biden Should Pass That Torch to Her

With one exchange about race, the senator began to take aim at Joe Biden’s tenuous hold on his front-runner status in the Democratic presidential field.

Calling the French ‘turds’ shows Boris Johnson is the eternal spoilt 15-year-old | Stephen Moss

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The would-be prime minister’s racist vulgarity is childish – and reveals the nostalgia for empire that underpinned Brexit

If you were seeking to be positive about the likely premiership of Boris Johnson – which is absolutely not my intention – you might liken him to one of his predecessors as foreign secretary and prime minister, Lord Palmerston, who dominated British politics in the 1850s and 60s and, for all his foibles (and sexual excesses), was much loved by the public.

The similarities in their worldviews are striking. Palmerston was popular because his politics were founded on foreigner-bashing. His vision of the world was simple: Britain had perfected the art of democracy and was entitled to impose its views on everyone else. As one historian has noted, the “ideological strand to Palmerston’s diplomacy … appealed to the aggressive national chauvinism that was such an important component of the mid-Victorian psyche”.

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Kamala Harris just changed the direction of the presidential race | Cliff Albright

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In several commanding moments, she distinguished herself from her rivals and positioned herself to lead the fight against Trump

As the second round of Democratic presidential debates approached, one of the major questions on the minds of voters and political commentators was whether the candidates would focus on trying to differentiate themselves from each other, as was done the previous night, or whether they would focus on critiquing Donald Trump.

Senator Kamala Harris chose to do both, and she did so effectively, in what turned out to be the breakout performance of the evening.

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No country for old white men: Kamala Harris leads changing of the guard

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The Democratic debates’ standouts have been Booker, Buttigieg, Castro, Harris and Warren – none a straight male Caucasian – while Joe Biden looked like this year’s Jeb Bush

It was as if “Sleepy Joe” Biden had been jolted awake and found himself in a terrifying parallel universe.

No longer was he the former senator and vice-president who once lunched weekly with Barack Obama at the White House. Instead he was the accused, standing in the dock under the hot lights on a debate stage in Miami, as a fierce and formidable prosecutor tore into his record on race.

The inquisitor was Senator Kamala Harris, ablack and Asian American former prosecutor and California attorney general and who has shown a rare talent for making Jeff Sessions and other ageing white men in power squirm. Harris was surely the stand-out performer of the second in a pair of primary debates this week where the world could see a generational shift in the Democratic party happening before its eyes.

Related: ‘Nobody works harder’: insiders recall Kamala Harris’s meteoric rise

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HPV vaccine responsible for drop in cervical disease

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The HPV jab is only given to girls in Sweden.

Lyssna: HPV Vaccin

The vaccination against the virus that causes almost all cervical cancer is proving so successful in wealthy countries such as Sweden that cases of the disease should be significantly reduced within a decade, say scientists.

“The big news is that they have found a total of 65 published studies that give roughly the same result, that vaccination is very effective against infection,” Joakim Dillner, professor of infection epidemiology at the Karolinska Institute tells Swedish Radio.

The study, published in the Lancet Medical journal, shows vaccinating multiple groups of girls at different ages, helps bring down HPV infection rates.

In Sweden, girls aged between 11 and 18 are offered the HPV vaccine, which has only been available for the past decade.

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