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Malak Mattar’s monumental 2024 black-and-white painting inspired by Guernica is entitled No Words (… for Gaza).

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How can we account for France’s historical wavering on race, between an extraordinary openness to assimilation ...

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In Social Topography of a Rural Community Steve Hindle describes the lives of 780 inhabitants of 176 households in ...

You may remember Palantir as the company that was given access to all of NHS England’s data in November 2023, in order to create a Federated Data Platform. The cost was £330 million – the largest NHS ...