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Jo Marchant is an award-winning science journalist based in London. She has a PhD in genetics and medical microbiology from St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in London, and an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College London. She has worked as an editor at New Scientist and at Nature and her articles have appeared in publications including The Guardian, Wired, and The Observer Review. She’s the author of Decoding the Heavens, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Royal Society Prize for Science Books, and The Shadow King.

Martin McGuinness saw peace as a tactic: we may be lucky he succeeded

Northern republicanism is in a stronger position than ever

16/06/2017

Northern republicanism is in a stronger position than ever

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Elena Ferrante versus Italy

How the novelist's global success has rattled Italy's stale, male establishment
16/06/2017
How the novelist's global success has rattled Italy's stale, male establishment

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Irishness, the changeling in the cradle

Who owns your identity?

16/06/2017

Who owns your identity?

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Beware the Prolier-than-thou style

Politicians and pundits alike revel in portraying prejudice and ignorance as essentially working-class values

16/06/2017

Politicians and pundits alike revel in portraying prejudice and ignorance as essentially working-class values

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Erdogan and the new world disorder

16/06/2017

Image: World Economic Forum/Andy Mettler
More than once this week I’ve heard people ask just what Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is up to in his bizarre confrontation with the Netherlands.

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Is British policy in Syria helping Assad and Putin?

Unconditional support for the Kurdish YPG could have long-term conseqeunces

16/06/2017

Unconditional support for the Kurdish YPG could have long-term conseqeunces

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John McDonnell's fantasy politics

Just how deluded is the shadow chancellor?

16/06/2017

Just how deluded is the shadow chancellor?

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