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Stephen Castle

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Correspondent in London bureau of New York Times, formerly IHT bureau chief in Brussels, ex-political editor Independent on Sunday

Katılım Temmuz 2011
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Wales now has a new First Minister, Rhun as Iorwerth. He says he has a "love affair" with America (where his parents once taught) -- but not with it's current president nytimes.com/2026/05/09/wor…
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Was Shakespeare planning a final act to his illustrious dramatic career? New information about a London real estate purchase in 1613, just three years before he died, suggests the Bard may not have been thinking about retirement . nytimes.com/2026/04/15/wor…
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After Brexit, Britain quit a Europe-wide student exchange program credited with creating a million babies whose parents met each other that way. Now Britain is rejoining. nytimes.com/2025/12/17/wor…
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Lawmakers have approved plans for assisted dying in England and Wales for the second time - making them almost certain to become law nytimes.com/2025/06/20/wor…
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Ashis Basu 🇨🇦 ashis.bluesky.social
“The manuscript’s value is hard to estimate, although it is fair to say that its price tag of under $30 (about $500 today) must make it one of the bargains of the last century. A 710-year-old version of Magna Carta was sold in 2007 for $21.3 million.” @_StephenCastle
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Harvard Law School bought a copy of the Magna Carta in 1946 for $27.50. Except it turns out it wasn't a copy after all, but an original from 1300. @_StephenCastle nytimes.com/2025/05/15/wor…

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Esther Bintliff@estherbintliff·
Britain faces a new and dangerous form of extremism, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday, warning that loners and misfits were being radicalized by “a tidal wave of violence freely available online.” @_StephenCastle reports: nytimes.com/2025/01/21/wor…
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André Picard@picardonhealth·
Britain’s Emotional Debate Over Assisted Dying. As lawmakers prepare to vote on legalizing medically assisted death for the terminally ill in England and Wales, an intense public discussion has unfolded, by @_StephenCastle nytimes.com/2024/11/27/wor… via @nytimes #MAiD
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As a child raised in Nigeria, Kemi Badenoch fetched water in rusty buckets when the faucets ran dry. Now she leads Britain's oldest conservative political party nytimes.com/2024/11/05/wor…
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In Pluckley, known as England's most haunted village, at least a dozen otherworldly spirits are supposed to inhabit the church, its graveyard and at least three pubs. So, villagers are braced for an invasion of ghost hunters at Halloween nytimes.com/2024/10/28/wor…
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