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Once again, Theresa May tries to claim victory – but the EU have conceded next to nothing | Jonathan Freedland

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Now all eyes will be on the Brexiters whose minds May needs to change before they cast their votes on Tuesday

Now the battle of interpretation begins, and to the naked ear the next 24 hours in Westminster might sound a lot like an argument about international law. In fact, the debate over the “legally binding changes” that Theresa May announced, her voice hoarse with exhaustion, as the Strasbourg clocks chimed midnight will not, ultimately, be a legal one. For all the talk of “instruments” and “protocols” and “arbitration panels”, this will come down to politics.

Related: May secures legally binding changes to Brexit deal, government claims

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Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is ‘not a state of all its citizens’

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PM has been accused of demonising Israeli Arabs in lead-up to April election

Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel is “not a state of all its citizens”, in a reference to the country’s Arab population.

In comments on Instagram, the prime minister went on to say all citizens, including Arabs, had equal rights, but he referred to a deeply controversial law passed last year declaring Israel the nation state of the Jewish people.

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Obscure no-deal Brexit group is UK’s biggest political spender on Facebook

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Britain’s Future has spent £340,000 promoting hard exit – but no one knows who’s funding it

The single biggest known British political advertiser on Facebook is a mysterious pro-Brexit campaign group pushing for a no-deal exit from the EU. The revelation about Britain’s Future, which has never disclosed the source of its funding or organisational structure, has raised concerns about the influence of “dark money” in British politics.

The little-known campaign group has spent more than £340,000 on Facebook adverts backing a hard Brexit since the social network began publishing lists of political advertisers last October, making it a bigger spender than every UK political party and the government combined.

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How America’s food giants swallowed the family farms

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Across the midwest, the rise of factory farming is destroying rural communities. And the massive corporations behind this devastation are now eyeing a post-Brexit UK market

When the vast expanse of rural Iowa was carved up for settlers in the 19th century, it was often divided into 160-acre lots. Four farms made a square mile, with a crisscross of dead-straight roads marking the boundaries like a sprawling chess board.

Within each square, generations of families tended pigs and cattle, grew oats and raised children, with the sons most likely to take over the farm. That is how Barb Kalbach saw the future when she left her family’s land to marry and begin farming with her new husband, Jim, 47 years ago.

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Playing politics with a child’s life shames us all, Mr Javid | Jess Phillips

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Shamima Begum may not deserve much sympathy, but she is a UK citizen. And so was her baby

Theresa May famously peddled a story about an illegal immigrant who had won his case because he had a cat and had used article 8 of the Human Rights Act – the right to a family life – to stay in the country.

It wasn’t true but, hey, she didn’t care: she had a point to make about the Human Rights Act and she needed a headline-grabbing story. In the same speech, the then home secretary said: “We must end the Human Rights Act.” As we now know, she, very unfortunately, made it to the office of prime minister.

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Extinction Rebellion activists throw ‘blood’ outside Downing Street

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Protesters use red paint to symbolise climate deaths, day after sit-in at Scottish oil event

Extinction Rebellion activists have thrown buckets of “blood” outside Downing Street to call for greater action on climate change.

About 400 demonstrators, including families with children, spilled more than 200 litres of red paint to make the severity of climate change “viscerally clear”.

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Finding Ashley: a Native American family’s desperate search for their missing relative – video

Ashley Heavyrunner Loring was 20 when she disappeared from the Blackfeet reservation in Montana in June 2017. Her family has been searching for her ever since. Ashley was one of more than 5,000 Native American women listed missing in 2017. Lawmakers are calling it an epidemic

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