The questions behind our social interactions | Social etiquette

The unspoken subject of Sarah Miller’s piece is empathy (People who don’t ask me questions drive me crazy. Why are they like that?, 1 May). In autism studies, researchers have noticed a “double empathy problem”: two people who think and communicate very differently will both struggle to empathise. Ms Miller demonstrates this phenomenon inadvertently but perfectly. She mentions…

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Far-right Trump fan wins first round of Romania’s rerun presidential election, exit polls suggest | Romania

An ultranationalist who opposes military aid to Ukraine, has vilified the EU’s leaders, and calls himself Donald Trump’s “natural ally” has won the first round of Romania’s rerun presidential vote and will face a centrist in the run-off, early estimates predict. Initial projections after polling stations closed on Sunday showed George Simion, whose far-right Alliance…

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