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February 6, 2020 41 mins

The Iowa Caucuses descended into chaos, Russian police have been convicted of busting their own drug den, and we ask: should the government step in to save Facebook from itself?


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Further reading:


The Iowa caucuses were utter chaos.


Doing well in Iowa is important, but only if you can get media attention out of it.


Pete Buttigieg: who he is.


Buttigieg controversially fired South Bend’s first African-American police chief.


Buttigieg’s town-regeneration project has also come under criticism from minority communities in South Bend. 


Partly as a result, Buttigeg has a major problem with nonwhite voters.


Buttigieg started off with a fairly left-wing campaign, but has pivoted to the centre recently, leading to accusations of opportunism from leftists.


Bernie Sanders: who he is.


Sanders’s healthcare proposals are maybe half as left-wing as what the UK currently has.


Romney voted to convict Trump.


Nancy Pelosi tore up a copy of Trump’s speech.


State election fiasco in Germany.


Land grab in Vietnam.


Iraqi protests shaken up.


Irish elections


Chile protests.


A murder mystery in Lesotho.


Iceland says you can’t name your child after the devil, apparently.


Russian police convicted of busting their own drug den.


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