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2025
24
January
2025
| 13:40 Europe/London
The 2024 general election was the first in the UK青瓜视频檚 history to be run under a system of voter ID. When heading to the polling station, people could only vote if they proved their identity first. This was the result of a law brought in in 2023 and
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02
January
2025
| 11:08 Europe/London
The Horizon scandal, which led to the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of subpostmasters, has severely dented the public青瓜视频檚 perception of the Post Office as an institution. Against this backdrop, branch closures are planned across the Post Office
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2024
19
November
2024
| 19:03 Europe/London
In a book I wrote with a colleague on organisational failures (The Apology Impulse) the inability of many of them to confront their failures, except to say a meaningless 青瓜视频渨e青瓜视频檙e sorry青瓜视频, is legend.
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06
November
2024
| 10:46 Europe/London
Chancellor Rachel Reeves presented Labour青瓜视频檚 first budget in 14 years by promising to put an 青瓜视频渆nd to short-termism青瓜视频. British governments typically see budgets as an opportunity to present policies providing short-term gain in terms of public
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16
October
2024
| 13:36 Europe/London
As species go extinct and a habitable climate teeters, it青瓜视频檚 understandable to feel despair.
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09
October
2024
| 11:54 Europe/London
If tens of thousands of miners turned up in the middle of a protected rainforest to mine for sapphires, you might expect that to cause lots of deforestation and harm local wildlife.
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31
July
2024
| 13:06 Europe/London
The UK青瓜视频檚 new Labour government has made a bold decision. The new minister for local government, Angela Rayner, has announced that the government would withdraw its support for a new coal mine near Whitehaven in Cumbria, which had been approved two
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31
July
2024
| 11:22 Europe/London
Desert regions in northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula have been well studied by archaeologists as the home of early humans and as routes of migration along 青瓜视频済reen corridors青瓜视频. The archaeology of southern Africa青瓜视频檚 west coast desert belt has not
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10
July
2024
| 12:12 Europe/London
The UPP Foundation has today (Wednesday 10 July) launched a new collection of essays from leading thinkers across different sectors outlining the economic and social benefits universities have on their local communities. 
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28
June
2024
| 15:56 Europe/London
It青瓜视频檚 not controversial to say that contemporary affluent societies do a rather poor job of taking the interests of younger generations into account. This is not only because children can青瓜视频檛 vote and the elderly tend to turn up to elections in higher
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19
June
2024
| 10:46 Europe/London
Mauritians will head to the polls by November 2024 and politicians are considering the economic direction of the island country.
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04
June
2024
| 13:22 Europe/London
With polls predicting huge losses for the Conservatives and huge gains for Labour, the election campaign so far has focused on the battle between the two biggest parties in Westminster. But the parliamentary dynamics are exceptionally fluid this
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15
May
2024
| 13:35 Europe/London
Gypsy and Traveller communities are among the more socially excluded groups in the UK. There is a long history of government failures in meeting these groups青瓜视频 housing needs.
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15
May
2024
| 13:26 Europe/London
Dressed in a mini skirt and passionate about boys, music, dance and fashion, the 1960s teenage girl is a pop culture icon, the seeming beneficiary of the ascendancy of mass youth culture in the west and of unprecedented social and cultural changes.
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09
April
2024
| 16:10 Europe/London
Fintech (financial technology) is everywhere. It青瓜视频檚 the catch-all term for technology-enabled financial services innovation.
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08
February
2024
| 10:36 Europe/London
Imagine making one change to a farm field so that as well as producing food, it also generated building materials, fuel and fodder. At the same time, this change would nourish the health of the soil, regulate the micro-climate and support
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04
January
2024
| 13:49 Europe/London
Almost immediately after being appointed as foreign secretary, David Cameron青瓜视频檚 ties with China generated difficult headlines for Rishi Sunak青瓜视频檚 government.
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04
January
2024
| 13:29 Europe/London
Way back in February 2020, before most of us really knew anything about COVID, we wrote an article for The Conversation about 青瓜视频渓eaveism青瓜视频 and its impact on flexible working.
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2023
07
September
2023
| 14:52 Europe/London
青瓜视频淭alking about freedom, sat in Margaret Thatcher青瓜视频檚 old Rover青瓜视频 read the UK prime minister青瓜视频檚 tweet in July 2023. Earlier that day in an interview with The Telegraph newspaper, Rishi Sunak had declared that the Conservative Party he leads are 青瓜视频渙n the
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24
August
2023
| 15:47 Europe/London
The 1953 coup d'etat in Iran ushered in a period of exploitation and oppression that has continued 青瓜视频 despite a subsequent revolution that led to huge changes 青瓜视频 for 70 years. Each year on August 19, the anniversary of the coup, millions of Iranians
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06
June
2023
| 11:14 Europe/London
Maybe you have one bin or many boxes. You might even have a compost caddy. Whatever your recycling setup, chances are that at some point you青瓜视频檝e been left wondering what should go where and if a particular item is indeed recyclable or if it should
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24
May
2023
| 15:24 Europe/London
I asked the pilot to deviate from our approved flight path and go low over Darfur. It was 2003 and I was the United Nations Humanitarian and Resident Coordinator in Sudan investigating reports of violence. What I saw was a genocide unfolding on my
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23
February
2023
| 14:45 Europe/London
UK environment secretary Th茅r猫se Coffey has demanded that water companies share plans for how they will reduce sewage discharges into rivers. They could start by coming clean on how much sewage is being dumped. If we don青瓜视频檛 know how much sewage is
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23
January
2023
| 12:47 Europe/London
When Prince Harry sat down with ITV journalist Tom Bradby for a conversation about his marriage, his estrangement from the royal family and his tell-all memoir, Spare, one particular segment stood out. Bradby said that Harry had accused some members
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17
January
2023
| 13:51 Europe/London
The UK government recently launched 青瓜视频淚t all adds up青瓜视频, a campaign aimed at providing 青瓜视频渟imple, low or no-cost actions that households can take to immediately cut energy use and save money青瓜视频. The campaign speaks to persistent calls to increase the
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03
January
2023
| 12:08 Europe/London
Austerity in the UK is here to stay. The Bank of England has warned that the country is facing the longest recession since records began, predicting that the economic slump will extend well into 2024. 
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2022
03
November
2022
| 11:38 Europe/London
The cinematic character of James Bond has changed with the times since the first Bond film Dr No was released back in 1962. We have seen Bond as a chauvinistic womaniser, a fun-loving bon vivant, and, more recently, a sometimes brutal yet
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26
October
2022
| 15:58 Europe/London
The first cohort of students in England taking T-levels 青瓜视频 the new vocational equivalent to A-levels 青瓜视频 have completed their course, been assessed, and have received their results.
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10
October
2022
| 14:19 Europe/London
New findings from the Universities of Manchester and Sheffield and have highlighted long term trends in court appearances for young adults.
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29
June
2022
| 17:11 Europe/London
For the first time in several generations, inflation is a concern for people in the UK. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 9% in the year to April 2022, the highest 12-month inflation rate since reliable records began. 
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