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Why was the Commune important? For just 72 days – from 18 March to 28 May 1871 – a revolutionary government ran Paris, and espoused a great number of radical causes: decent conditions for workers; free universal education; separation of Church and state; the abolition of child labour; equality between men and women; citizenship for foreigners. Although it was soon put down with remarkable ferocity, the Paris Commune inspired socialist movements around the world. Karl Marx described it as the prototype for a future revolutionary government – “the form at last discovered for the emancip...

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NICOLA STURGEON is tipped to be humiliated by Boris Johnson who will block her push for independence, refusing even concessions on the divisive issue, an expert on Scottish politics has claimed.

The University of Glasgow has been accused of breaking the law on free speech by cancelling a talk by a “eugenicist” economist.The historians Niall Ferguson and Robert Tombs are among 70 academics and