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Anti-Donald Trump protestors demonstrating outside Trump Tower, New York

Book of the week: Political Svengalis, not the public, drive populist pantomimes of democracy, says Angelia Wilson

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Sigmund Freud sitting among some of his pupils, Vienna, 1922

Book of the week: New sources yield fresh insights and oversights by the father of psychoanalysis, says Janet Sayers

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Anti-Donald Trump protestors demonstrating outside Trump Tower, New York

Book of the week: Political Svengalis, not the public, drive populist pantomimes of democracy, says Angelia Wilson

Rolled-up bank notes with Chinese currency at front

Jonathan Mirsky on a bleak but believable view of rampant corruption taking a country to the dogs

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UK workers demonstrating during General Strike of 1926

Has the corporation acted as an arm of the state in the past, and might it in the future? Ivor Gaber wonders

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