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Licence fee / The BBC cannot tax Netflix viewers

The BBC has described itself as being set to enter ‘managed decline’. The government is currently reviewing the broadcaster’s charter, and...

07.03.2026 7

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The BBC cannot tax Netflix viewers

The BBC has described itself as being set to enter ‘managed decline’. The government is currently reviewing the broadcaster’s charter, and...

06.03.2026 9

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Can Wes Streeting get the sick back to work?

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has tried using the NHS for social engineering before. Previously, he’s suggested that weight-loss jabs could get...

26.02.2026 10

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Pity the fool with a nonsense name

‘If there is one thing I dislike,’ said P.G. Wodehouse, ‘it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.’ His grievance...

24.02.2026 10

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Is it a surprise middle-class women are using Ozempic most?

New research reveals a startling truth about the people paying thousands for weight-loss drugs: they’re mostly middle-aged, wealthy women. In other...

18.02.2026 9

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How can measles have broken out in London?

Last month the World Health Organisation removed Britain from its list of countries where measles had been effectively eliminated. The disease has...

16.02.2026 100

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Myth-busting / Does coffee really lower the risk of dementia?

People who drink coffee and tea are less likely to suffer dementia, according to a large study published this week. The research is from Harvard and...

14.02.2026 10

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Does coffee really lower the risk of dementia?

People who drink coffee and tea are less likely to suffer dementia, according to a large study published this week. The research is from Harvard and...

14.02.2026 10

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The new junior doctors’ strikes aren’t about pay

03.02.2026 4

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Green shoots / The solace of spring

03.02.2026 6

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Tesla Trump / Don’t bet on Elon Musk’s failure

02.02.2026 10

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Child's play / What Lego taught me about my own mediocrity

28.01.2026 3

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Belsen haunted my friend to the grave

26.01.2026 10

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Labour's drink-driving law won't cut road deaths

07.01.2026 10

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Dark days / January is the time to drink

06.01.2026 10

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Christmas and the luxury of fallow time

28.12.2025 10

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Silent night / Christmas and the luxury of fallow time

27.12.2025 40

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Silent night / Christmas and the luxury of fallow time

26.12.2025 10

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The welcome tyranny of Christmas cheer

24.12.2025 10

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Death at Christmas

22.12.2025 5

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Festive fear / Death at Christmas

22.12.2025 10

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The yearly flu crisis is entirely avoidable

17.12.2025 10

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Terror in Australia / Why are world leaders shocked by the Bondi Beach attack?

15.12.2025 20

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How terror triumphed at the Christmas market

13.12.2025 8

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Hot stuff / Supermarkets have finally discovered chilli

10.12.2025 7

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Is racism to blame for the NHS maternity crisis?

09.12.2025 3

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The joy of receiving Christmas cards – even from people I loathe

07.12.2025 10

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Why GPs are reluctant about online booking

05.12.2025 10

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Junior doctors are striking for the wrong reason

03.12.2025 10

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Only radical change can halve NHS waiting lists

25.11.2025 5

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Pens have gone extinct

18.11.2025 10

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Junior doctors’ strikes are good for my wallet – but totally avoidable

14.11.2025 10

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Lest we forget / Are we forgetting how to remember the glorious dead?

11.11.2025 10

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How to endure November

01.11.2025 10

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Reel life / Films aren’t art

28.10.2025 10

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Salad days / The lettuce test of civilisation

25.10.2025 7

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The lettuce test of civilisation

24.10.2025 7

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How did Birmingham succumb to ethnic strife?

20.10.2025 6

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Root cause / The consolation of the quince

15.10.2025 7

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Can the NHS’s anti-Semitism problem be fixed?

10.10.2025 6

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The problem with Labour’s plan for ‘NHS Online’

30.09.2025 5

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Starmer’s ‘racist’ Reform remark is his ‘deplorables’ moment

29.09.2025 10

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The problem with Jess’s Rule

23.09.2025 6

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The no-choice rural restaurant with just two sittings a week

20.09.2025 6

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How I came to (reluctantly) like Trump

17.09.2025 10

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Book smarts / J.K. Rowling is a phenomenal plotter

10.09.2025 10

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A farewell to aspirin

06.09.2025 10

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Autumn / Why September feels like the true new year

02.09.2025 10

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Britain can’t win its fight against Big Pharma

31.08.2025 10

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Patriot / Why the English fly their flag

31.08.2025 20

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