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Can Joe Biden save America? Emily Biden profiles the man battling to end the Trump era

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• The lockdown trap: Stephen Bush on why Tories are split over the government’s incoherent Covid strategy

• Anna Leszkiewicz on Sylvia Plath

• Anoosh Chakelian on Armenia’s loss

• William Boyd on his literary heroes

• Adrian Pabst on the Pope and the left