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Prof Neena Modi, professor of neonatal medicine at Imperial College London, said: "This will disadvantage groups such as women who are sensitive to gluten, eat rice in preference to bread, and products made from wholemeal flour - excluding them and their babies from benefiting, and thus adding to the considerable health inequities that already exist in the UK."

Finlay Christie has been selected on the bench in preference to rising star Cam Roigard.

Moyn himself almost admits as much, writing that he chose figures like Berlin and Popper "in preference to more familiar Cold War sages" like Reinhold Niebuhr, Richard Hofstadter or Arthur Schlesinger Jr. "because they have been so neglected and therefore cast more unexpected light on critical features of their time."

The French overseas territory's Teahupo'o wave in the South Pacific was chosen in preference to beaches in south-west France and in Brittany.

During a closed-door GOP conference Tuesday, conservatives from the House Freedom Caucus implored Mr. McCarthy to “hold the line” in preference to the debt limit legislation passed by House Republicans last month.