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Theresa May ‘did not understand EU when she triggered Brexit’

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Former UK ambassador Ivan Rogers says PM’s negotiating strategy was doomed to fail

Theresa May and her circle of advisers did not understand how the European Union works, and consequently followed a negotiating strategy in 2016 that was doomed to fail, the former UK ambassador to the EU Sir Ivan Rogers has said.

Speaking to the Institute for Government on Monday, Rogers said the people around the prime minister at the start of the article 50 process “didn’t know very much about European councils or that much about the EU”.

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After 40 years in solitary confinement, activist Albert Woodfox tells his story of survival

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The former Black Panther and member of the Angola 3 reflects on how he turned his cell from a place of confinement to a space for personal growth

My wrists were handcuffed to my waist by a leather strap. These restraints would become standard for me for decades to come. They walked me to a car and I got in. A captain next to me started elbowing me in my chest, face, and ribs. They drove me to a building just inside the front gate that housed the reception center and death row. Inside was a cellblock called closed cell restricted, or CCR: another name for solitary confinement. In the stairwell they beat me viciously. I couldn’t fight back or defend myself because of the restraints.

My body was badly bruised from being beaten but I was still able to move around the cell on my own. I walked to shake off the pain. The cell was 9ft long and 6ft wide. I could take four or five steps up and back the length of the cell.

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The Killing Times: the massacres of Aboriginal people Australia must confront

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Special report: Shootings, poisonings and children driven off cliffs – this is a record of state-sanctioned slaughter

• A massacre map of Australia’s frontier wars – interactive

The truth of Australia’s history has long been hiding in plain sight.

The stories of “the killing times” are the ones we have heard in secret, or told in hushed tones. They are not the stories that appear in our history books yet they refuse to go away.

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