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Sweden’s ministers keep full pay while sick as the government defends the sick-day penalty

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Ceuta exposed the right's politics of cruelty

Dear Sweden: You buy the drugs. You employ the drug dealers.

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Sweden cannot claim to protect migrant mothers while splitting their families

SD’s repatriation proposal puts a price on who counts as Swedish

Argentina’s calm in crisis is the mark of champions

Tuchel built a wall and trapped England behind it

England’s punitive football culture turns every mistake into a threat

At 39, Messi showed again why he is football’s greatest ever

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