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  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
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    Alexander Chreky
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    Campaigners call on Keir Starmer’s government to create clear laws to tackle growing use of the technology

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  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
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    Ministers look at softening UK welfare cuts to avert rebellion by Labour MPs

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  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    Stephen Bush
    Britain’s two-child benefit cap must go

    The government should recognise that it has a stake in its people having enough children

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  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
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  • Saturday, 24 May, 2025
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    Semicolons bring the drama; that’s why I love them

    Neither full stop nor comma, they symbolise a nuance that is disappearing in a polarised world

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  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Camilla Cavendish
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    Police are dragged into investigating petty incidents, undermining trust in our freedom to express opinions

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  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
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    UK youth risk jobs ‘scrap heap’ without urgent action, minister says

    New research shows people from disadvantaged backgrounds 66% more likely not to be in work, education or training

    Alison McGovern
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    Jennifer Dixon
    How health inequality in the UK maps on to political upheaval

    Tackling deprivation and illness in neglected places could be the prescription for beating Nigel Farage

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    26-year old arrested at Luton airport on Saturday after Ukrainian national was charged this week

  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Camilla Cavendish
    How to fix the UK’s housing crisis

    For young adults, property shortages reinforce the feeling that life is a zero-sum game

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  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
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    Shamima Begum made grave mistakes. But she is our responsibility and no one else’s

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  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
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    ‘It will be horrendous’: care crisis warning as UK ends overseas recruitment

    Providers say ministers have ‘not been upfront’ about the barriers facing the sector

    Stella Shaw
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Stephen Bush
    Migration cuts are a luxury the UK cannot afford

    Reducing freedom of movement comes at a cost and governments shouldn’t pretend otherwise

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  • Sunday, 11 May, 2025
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    UK minister asks Big Tech to help create ‘prison outside prison’ for criminals

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  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    ‘I don’t think anybody went to bed that night’: VE veterans share their stories

    Eighty years after Victory in Europe, servicemen and women look back on the conflict

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  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    Philip Augar
    The English higher education market is broken

    New regulator powers should include the ability to claw back pay from vice-chancellors in the event of financial catastrophe

    Students celebrate graduating
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    Camilla Cavendish
    Reform’s rise shows Labour must get serious about immigration

    With a more volatile electorate, all parties need to adapt to face down populism

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of paint coloured in the shades of the five political parties leaking from a ballot box
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
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    UK agency finds stark inequalities in health protection

    Chances of hospital admission with infectious disease strongly linked to factors such as ethnicity and deprivation, report says

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  • Tuesday, 29 April, 2025
    Stephen Bush
    A $5,000 baby bonus won’t raise birth rates

    Too much ‘pro-natal’ policy is the result of discussions between those who see maternity wards as the end of the story

    Ewan White illustration of a couple walking off into the sunset
  • Saturday, 26 April, 2025
    Ludovic Hunter-Tilney
    Take heart, quiet majority. ‘Headphone dodgers’ can be silenced

    Noisemakers have plagued city dwellers for centuries — but there is a way to stop them

    The Enraged Musician by William Hogarth
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