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Joe Biden had repeatedly denied that he was going to pardon his son Hunter for his gun and tax evasion convictions or commute what was shaping up to be a substantive prison sentence.

The agreement is the first substantive attempt by the government to fulfil the prime minister’s "personal mission" to combat people smuggling at source rather than just trying to stop boats in the Channel.

In before times, you’d have already pulled the emergency hatch, dumping all substantive talk for empty chatter about the weather.

“The targeted seizure of a pre-trial detainee’s work product and privileged materials — created in preparation for trial — is outrageous government conduct amounting to a substantive due process violation.”

The research, published in the journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, found that in 70% of the posts deemed to be the most substantive, the writers “accepted or exploited climate change.”