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In recent years we’ve seen a spate of book banning and repression in the classroom by right-wing school boards and politicians.

She said the spate of firings was not surprising, given the current heated political rhetoric in the US.

Secondary schools in two neighbouring towns in the Netherlands were told to shut on Friday because of a spate of violence involving two groups of young people.

The killing — the latest incident in a spate of violent attacks targeting American politicians on the left and the right — led to swift condemnation of political violence from both sides of the ideological divide.

It comes amid a spate of high profile cyber-attacks, affecting firms including M&S and Jaguar Land Rover, in which teenage hackers have been implicated.