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Rachel Reeves still has plenty of options on taxation| Letters

Letters: <strong>Bernie Evans</strong> on ways the chancellor could pay for a cut in child poverty, <strong>Dr Alan Baker</strong> on Labour’s defining mission, <strong>Donald Third</strong> on conference expulsions and <strong>James Douet</strong> on the phrase ‘tax raid’

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Science

Human stupidity is nothing new in politics | Letters

Letters: <strong>Gregorio Kohon</strong> looks at why we accept superficial slogans, pseudoscientific claims and comforting myths from our leaders, and <strong>Vaughan Dean</strong> writes about ‘Trumpery’

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A question of leadership at the Samaritans | Letter

<strong>Letter: </strong>A volunteer with the charity is unhappy about the changes that are being proposed

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Should I pay heed to this Swift dismissal? | Brief letters

<strong>Brief letters: </strong>Taylor Swift review | Aztec broccoli | Bogof v half-price | President Putin | Pannetone pudding

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The Manchester synagogue attack and the right to protest | Letters

Letters:<strong> Tomilyn Rupert </strong>believes that the<strong> </strong>conflation of Zionism with Judaism is wrong and contributes to antisemitism. Plus letters from <strong>Gabriele Hodgson</strong>,<strong> Selina Osman </strong>and<strong> Deirdre Burrell</strong>

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Long history of failure to tackle police racism | Letters

Letters:<strong> Matt Foot</strong> calls for a change in the law when an officer is imprisoned. Plus letters from <strong>Harvey Sanders</strong> and <strong>Rev Richard Stainer</strong>

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Tools to power up the European Union | Letter

<strong>Letter: </strong>An EU economic security council is an idea whose time has come, writes <strong>Luuk van Middelaar</strong>

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A ballet description so good you can feel it | Brief letters

<strong>Brief letters: </strong>‘Rock solid but buttery soft’ | The Far Side on Jane Goodall | Baby boxes | Salford artists | Comedians in Saudi Arabia

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Blind date: ‘As she was trying to show me something on her phone, there was a guy’s fully nude video on there’

Jenny, 31, a lash technician, meets Nova, 27, a master’s student

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From the BFI London film festival to Taylor Swift: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

The movie extravaganza his the capital as well as screens nationwide, while the all-conquering Swift brings pop maestro Max Martin back for her new record

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Failed by the NHS on chronic fatigue illness | Letters

Letters:<strong> Prof Paul Garner</strong>, <strong>Dr Maria Pedersen</strong> <strong>and</strong><em><strong> </strong></em><strong>Dr Alastair Miller</strong>, plus two other readers, respond to Patrick Barkham’s article on his daughter’s Lyme disease diagnosis

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How Tony Harrison gave this lass the confidence she needed | Letters

<strong>Letters: </strong>An encouraging note from the poet to a young working-class student is remembered by <strong>Dr Chrissie Tiller</strong>. Plus a letter from <strong>Brian Allen</strong>

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Stalin, Putin and an enduring obsession with immortality | Letter

<strong>Letter: </strong>Readers respond to an article by Aleks Krotoski about dictators and tech billionaires wanting to ‘solve the problem’ of ageing

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Memories of Brian Patten, a Liverpool poet | Letters

Letters:<strong> Iain Melvin</strong> recalls a visit to Nottingham University; <strong>Ruth Valentine</strong> found the Liverpool Poets an aid to teaching; plus a letter from <strong>Hilary Skelton</strong>

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Tate Britain’s Lee Miller exhibition is hardly ‘overdue’ | Letter

<strong>Letters: </strong>The American war and art photographer has been well represented in shows over the past two decades, writes <strong>Richard Calvocoressi</strong>

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Emma Chisit? Check your Karen Vallance | Brief letters

<strong>Brief letters: </strong>Mondegreen mishearings | Wills and probate | Nigel Farage | Politics

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Tackling toilet shame: help your child handle the school poo stigma

Embarrassed and teased, pupils are avoiding school loos and hanging on until they get home. Rosie Mullender looks at the health risks and asks an expert what parents can do

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Inequality and despair bolster Reform UK in Kent | Letters

Letters:<strong> Cllr Teresa Murray </strong>on<strong> </strong>how the Reform-run council in Kent is driving hostility towards asylum seekers and dismantling public services. Plus letters from <strong>Peter Riddle </strong>and <strong>Paul Kane</strong>

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Advantages of online GP booking systems | Letters

Letters:<strong> Martin Giebner</strong> says the problem is the mismatch between demand and capacity, not how appointments are booked, while <strong>Jonathan Hauxwell </strong>thinks online systems create better-targeted appointments

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Branded New Forest ponies are well cared for | Letter

Letter: <strong>Brice Stratford</strong> defends traditional practices and says New Forest ponies have a better quality of life than any others

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